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Biden administration places restrictions on gas-powered furnaces, says it will curb emissions...These new regulations would go into effect in 2028.
Just The News ^ | October 1, 2023 11:36am Updated: October 1, 2023 11:36am | By Charlotte Hazard

Posted on 10/02/2023 6:37:04 AM PDT by Red Badger

The Biden administration announced on Friday new restrictions on gas-powered furnaces in order to curb carbon emissions and residential energy use.

According to the Department of Energy, these regulations will cut household utility costs by $1.5 billion annually and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

"At the direction of Congress, DOE is continuing to review and finalize energy standards for household appliances, such as residential furnaces, to lower costs for working families by reducing energy use and slashing harmful pollutants in homes across the nation," Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said in a statement.

"Today’s measure, along with this Administration’s past and planned energy efficiency actions, underscores President Biden’s commitment to save Americans money and deliver healthier communities," she added.

These new regulations would go into effect in 2028 and would mandate furnaces to achieve an annual fuel utilization efficiency (AFUE) of 95%.

This requires manufacturers, within six years, to only sell furnaces that convert at least 95% of fuel into heat. As of now, the market standard AFUE for a residential furnace is 80%.

"There are some really technical reasons why this is such a concerning rule," Richard Meyer, the vice president of energy markets, analysis and standards at the American Gas Association told Fox Digital. "It has to do with the ability for consumers to be in compliance with this new efficiency standard."

"They're going to have to, in many cases, install new equipment to exhaust gas out of their home. These higher efficiency units, or so-called condensing units — a lot of consumers have them in their home, but a lot of consumers don't. So, this rule would require additional retrofits for a lot of consumers," added Meyer. "And those retrofits can be extremely cost prohibitive."

Over the next year, according to Fox Digital, the Biden administration is also proceeding with rules that will impact dozens more appliances, "including pool pumps, battery chargers, ceiling fans and dehumidifiers."


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1 posted on 10/02/2023 6:37:04 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Every non military Federal Employee in the USA should be required By LAW to Immediately retrofit Every Appliance they have to meet these requirements or be FIRED and Lose all Pension and Retirement benefits.


2 posted on 10/02/2023 6:39:16 AM PDT by eyeamok
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these regulations will cut household utility costs by $1.5 billion annually and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

100% pure BS. They will cost many multiples more. We know it, they know it, the world knows it. Yet they lie anyway.

3 posted on 10/02/2023 6:40:11 AM PDT by PGR88
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The pedophile bass turd wants to make sure he won’t be in office when someone is going to be required to enforce his dumbass idea. What a Puddle ‘O Puke.


4 posted on 10/02/2023 6:41:57 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Prosecutors say Trump may have broken the law admiring gun in South Carolina" ROTFLMAO!)
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“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.”
― George Orwell, 1984


5 posted on 10/02/2023 6:42:54 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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I’m going to start burning bog peat…


6 posted on 10/02/2023 6:44:26 AM PDT by EEGator
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Old tires.......................


7 posted on 10/02/2023 6:45:36 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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‘Rats want Deplorables to freeze in the dark while starving in their 15 minute ‘hood.


8 posted on 10/02/2023 6:48:28 AM PDT by Paladin2
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I already burned those during Hussein’s reign…


9 posted on 10/02/2023 6:48:51 AM PDT by EEGator
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The Puppet masters are lunatics.
This doesn’t even pass basic math.
In my home in AZ, it would cost me about 10k to implement.
The end result is my electricity rates would jump and jump LOTS in the summer.
AZ doesn’t have the capacity to add a 40% increase to demand with the EV and appliance mandate.

And this is a savings?
I’m sure the GOP will get right on this.....zzzzz


10 posted on 10/02/2023 6:48:55 AM PDT by Zathras
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Just wait, when all the cars are EVs, they EAT TIRES LIKE CRAZY because of their excess weight.

There will be plenty of old tires for you to burn.......again...........


11 posted on 10/02/2023 6:50:41 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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It is not the governments business to “save citizens money” by regulating the kind of equipment that they choose to use.


12 posted on 10/02/2023 6:52:18 AM PDT by Bob434
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Win win!
My future is so bright, I gotta wear my shades…


13 posted on 10/02/2023 6:53:25 AM PDT by EEGator
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There will be a point at which you'll get a "I don't think I'll let you arrest me today, Behan" (Tombstone) moment.

Not sure when, but its gonna happen.

14 posted on 10/02/2023 7:01:28 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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I am curious as to why you want to exempt the military.
Once people get an exemption, they tend not to care what happens to others.
I believe there are conservatives in the federal work force, just as the military has a lot of WOKE people in the ranks.


15 posted on 10/02/2023 7:28:07 AM PDT by Iceclimber58
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Spot on people who haven’t read George Orwell 1984 have no idea what they are missing why todays events are happening.


16 posted on 10/02/2023 7:39:49 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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Burn dimmocraps for fuel and get a two-fer. Only downside would be the stench from them.


17 posted on 10/02/2023 7:44:12 AM PDT by EinNYC
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18 posted on 10/02/2023 7:51:08 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: EinNYC

Can’t be that bad. People have burned manure for heat for thousands of years.


20 posted on 10/02/2023 8:03:02 AM PDT by ferret_airlift
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