Just like health care... they now know they can just tell us we have to buy whatever they think we are supposed to have. There will be fines (taxes?) for not buying the appropriate appliances. They will put Whirlpool out of business for daring to challenge them. It will be easier and easier for them with each success.
No, they'll simply tell the appliance dealers that they can no longer sell the old type. I ran into this a couple of years ago.
The house we bought (western Washington) came with an electric forced-air furnace, but not air conditioning. For the most part, where we are AC isn't really needed but a few days out of the year.
But my wife and I have bad inhalant allergies, and need to keep the house "buttoned up", even in summer. The contractor who designed and built the house installed an AC heat exchanger coil in the electric furnace ducting, so all we "should" have had to do was buy the compressor, have it installed and wired up, and hooked up to the already-installed heat exchanger coils.
BUT NOBODY WOULD SELL ME THE APPROPRIATE COMPRESSOR! "We can't install those any more due to new energy efficiency standards".
So we had to have the whole system replaced. The new heat pump works well, and it "has" dropped our monthly bills, but I was NOT happy about being FORCED to make that change.
And I suspect much more and more onerous things from the future unless we throw the socialists and their eco-commie allies out of office.....permanently.