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Biden admin cracks down on air conditioners as war on appliances continues
Posted on 3/24/23 at 1:47 pm
Posted on 3/24/23 at 1:47 pm
Fox News
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The Biden administration announced its latest home appliance regulations this week, targeting air conditioners in an action it said would reduce the nation's carbon emissions.
The regulations, unveiled Thursday by the Department of Energy (DOE), finalize energy efficiency standards for home air conditioning units, or window air conditioners, and portable air cleaners.
The DOE said the move would cut air pollution and push consumer costs down by billions of dollars via energy savings.
"Today’s announcement builds on the historic actions President Biden took last year to strengthen outdated energy efficiency standards, which will help save on people’s energy bills and reduce our nation’s carbon footprint," Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said in a statement.
"DOE will continue to engage with our public and private sector partners to finalize additional proposals like today’s that lower household energy costs and deliver the safer, healthier communities that every American deserves," she continued.
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Over the last several months, meanwhile, the DOE has introduced a series of energy efficiency regulations impacting various home appliances including gas stoves, ovens, clothes washers and refrigerators.
Critics have blasted the rules as federal overreach and unnecessary given that the industry has improved technology without government intervention. "What these mandates, what these standards, do is enforce a level of efficiency that doesn't make sense,"
Ben Lieberman, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told Fox News Digital in an interview last week. "And they compromise product quality. We've already seen this to an extent with cost of clothes washer standards."
"That's another problem — this is a regulatory program that's very long in the tooth and you're getting to the point where clothes washers — this might be the fifth time they've been regulated," he continued. "So we're really chasing after diminishing or nonexistent marginal returns."
This post was edited on 3/24/23 at 1:48 pm
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Posted on 3/24/23 at 1:49 pm to Placekicker
We should all just be grateful that the country and its economy are running so well that our federal government has the time to focus on things like this.
Posted on 3/24/23 at 1:49 pm to Placekicker
We have troops dodging missiles in Syria and this goof ball is worried about air conditioners. How his approval rating isn't zero I will never understand.
Posted on 3/24/23 at 1:50 pm to David_DJS
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We should all just be grateful that the country and its economy are running so well that our federal government has the time to focus on things like this.
It is desperation time. Barack Obama's recently purchased waterfront mansion is in danger.
Posted on 3/24/23 at 1:50 pm to Placekicker
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The DOE said the move would cut air pollution and push consumer costs down by billions of dollars via energy savings.
will cost more because manufacturers will pass costs to consumers, like... always! plus they won't work as well. like always!
Posted on 3/24/23 at 1:51 pm to Placekicker
My God our founders must hate what we have become. So much power centralized that was never supposed to happen.
This government if full of tyrants.
This government if full of tyrants.
Posted on 3/24/23 at 1:56 pm to Placekicker
Too much power has been given to these agencies with no congressional power to approve or disapprove.
Posted on 3/24/23 at 2:02 pm to Placekicker
How do people go so far off the rails in their upbringing and education, whereby they develop this overarching desire to control seemingly every single freaking aspect of the lives and very existence of others?
The whole mindset is just so foreign to me.
I want nothing but to leave other people the frick alone and to be treated in kind.
The whole mindset is just so foreign to me.
I want nothing but to leave other people the frick alone and to be treated in kind.
Posted on 3/24/23 at 2:17 pm to Placekicker
They’ll be coming for those fancy smart Thermostats
You know it’s coming
Daddy government think it’s cool
Enough in your home. Time to throttle it off for the evening. Enjoy your 75 degree setting while you attempt to sleep
You know it’s coming
Daddy government think it’s cool
Enough in your home. Time to throttle it off for the evening. Enjoy your 75 degree setting while you attempt to sleep
Posted on 3/24/23 at 2:21 pm to Placekicker
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The DOE said the move would cut air pollution and push consumer costs down by billions of dollars via energy savings.
Because gubment regulations always help the consumer.
Posted on 3/24/23 at 2:25 pm to Placekicker
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which will help save on people’s energy bills
Which will be completely offset by astronomical retrofit costs.
Liberals don't do math well.
Posted on 3/24/23 at 2:29 pm to Placekicker
Grand idea
Biden and associates such as John Kerry, Bernie Sanders, Pocahontas, Cackles and AOC should lead by example. Until then STFU.
Biden and associates such as John Kerry, Bernie Sanders, Pocahontas, Cackles and AOC should lead by example. Until then STFU.
Posted on 3/24/23 at 2:37 pm to Placekicker
If the left’s goal is to make the US a third world country, they are doing a heck of a job.
Posted on 3/24/23 at 2:56 pm to SeaBass23
A big leap forward would be mandating life cycle reliability/repair standards. A gas over/stove used to be good for thirty year. There was an igniter, and a thermostat that could be removed/replaced by the owner for about 5 bucks. Now it takes a computer to analyze , parts are several hundred bucks and the technicians 100 bucks an hour. The new appliance life expectancy is down to 4-5 years.
scratch your ev battery and the insurance company totals it
Part of that might be to mandate mfgs warrant the car for the life of the car loan.
I have looked at Indian mfg cars and they promote simple reliability far more than lane change instruments
Posted on 3/24/23 at 2:59 pm to Placekicker
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The DOE said the move would cut air pollution and push consumer costs down by billions of dollars via energy savings.
They fail to tell us how it will make all of us sweat
Posted on 3/24/23 at 3:01 pm to Placekicker
They don't realize that sweat and body odor will deplete the ozone layer. Dumbasses. 
Posted on 3/24/23 at 3:02 pm to Placekicker
This is looking like the war of northern aggression all over again where a yankee tyrant unlawfully elected president keeps screwing with the south
Hopefully they free the slaves this time. Let me get a day off and some food stamps please
Hopefully they free the slaves this time. Let me get a day off and some food stamps please
Posted on 3/24/23 at 3:04 pm to Placekicker
Well, if you really want to jump start hostility- take away air conditioning. Violent crime will spike like never before. Though, that’s probably a bonus to their prime objective of making you believe in the climate change agenda.
Posted on 3/24/23 at 3:04 pm to Placekicker
Apparently I need to buy a white linen suit and have to pay minimum wage people to fan me constantly if I don’t have my AC.
Posted on 3/24/23 at 3:12 pm to Placekicker
We need to conserve energy what is so hard to understand about that? I want my grandchildren to have the same access to AC as I do, I don’t want the supply to be depleted by then.
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