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13 <br /> DRAFT <br /> 348 Adam Beeman: Before I give it to you, Lamar, there's one point that I want to make. The 2023 National Electric <br /> 349 Code, I'm almost positive, requires an EV charger in all new residential homes, but the State of North Carolina <br /> 350 wants to lag 7 years behind the code, so we're going to be battling that one from trade professionals because <br /> 351 we're not required to put it in unless the homeowner wants it, yet. So it's coming down the line, but the state <br /> 352 chooses to drag their feet, so we won't be required to put those in homes for another 7 years. <br /> 353 <br /> 354 Statler Gilfillen: Going back to the question I started— <br /> 355 <br /> 356 Adam Beeman: We're working across the board, Statler. <br /> 357 <br /> 358 Statler Gilfillen: Oh, okay. I'm sorry. I wasn't aware of that. <br /> 359 <br /> 360 Adam Beeman: We're getting to you. Lamar, go ahead. <br /> 361 <br /> 362 Lamar Proctor: I just want to say thank you for doing this work. Are there other counties in North Carolina that <br /> 363 are adopting a climate action plan? <br /> 364 <br /> 365 Amy Eckberg: There is a ton of counties. I think if they don't have one right now, they're in the process right <br /> 366 now of creating one. I think it's pretty commonplace nowadays for cities and towns and counties to be able to <br /> 367 have a climate action plan that lays out their strategies pretty specifically. <br /> 368 <br /> 369 Lamar: Okay, great. And I just have a comment because this issue is important to me. I see it as one of the <br /> 370 most important issues facing all of us. And I just appreciate that you're working with what you can work with. A <br /> 371 lot of these are systemic problems that need to be solved or dealt with on an even larger scale, but I am very <br /> 372 grateful that you are doing this work and that our county is committed to doing this. I do feel like we got into this <br /> 373 climate situation through thousands and millions of decisions to choose to rely on fossil fuel energy over and over <br /> 374 and over again, and the only way we're going to get out of it is, over time, to make thousands and millions of <br /> 375 decisions to draw away from reliance on fossil fuel energy. And I do want to just comment that I see the keeping <br /> 376 temperatures at 1.5 degrees, and I understand why it's presented that way, but to me, the underlying issue is <br /> 377 getting the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere down. So for those who don't know,just looking it up, in 1960 <br /> 378 it was about 300 parts per million, and it has steadily risen to now 420 parts per million. And so this stuff stays in <br /> 379 the atmosphere, and even though it's invisible, it's like anything else, a little bit of it is necessary, like water. You <br /> 380 need to drink water every day, but if you drink 5 gallons of water,you're going to die. So this is kind of what we're <br /> 381 doing to our atmosphere,just dumping invisible CO2,and it's having these physical effects of trapping heat in the <br /> 382 atmosphere. So I just encourage you when you're presenting this information, especially on the website, to <br /> 383 mention that parts per million because that is the underlying issue. It isn't the temperature. The temperature is <br /> 384 the secondary effect of having too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and I feel like it lets fossil fuel <br /> 385 companies off the hook when we only talk about temperature and we don't talk about what the direct thing is, <br /> 386 which is the CO2 concentration in parts per million. <br /> 387 <br /> 388 Amy Eckberg: Thank you. Thank you for that feedback. I appreciate it. <br /> 389 <br /> 390 Adam Beeman: All right, Statler, it's your turn now. <br /> 391 <br /> 392 Statler Gilfillen In the building code, the commercial code, energy-wise, is far stiffer and more rigid than the <br /> 393 residential code. Apparently, a number of years ago,the residential developers managed to keep it much looser. <br /> 394 Many states allow an individual county to override a state building code with something more stiff. That is <br /> 395 apparently not the case here in North Carolina. Is there anything that we can do to bring the residential code a <br /> 396 little more into conformance of what you need? I've got four questions tonight, by the way. That's one. <br /> 397 <br />
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