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."
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.
100% pure BS. They will cost many multiples more. We know it, they know it, the world knows it. Yet they lie anyway.
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.
“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
I’m going to start burning bog peat…
Old tires.......................
‘Rats want Deplorables to freeze in the dark while starving in their 15 minute ‘hood.
I already burned those during Hussein’s reign…
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
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...........
It is not the governments business to “save citizens money” by regulating the kind of equipment that they choose to use.
Win win!
My future is so bright, I gotta wear my shades…
Not sure when, but its gonna happen.
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.
Spot on people who haven’t read George Orwell 1984 have no idea what they are missing why todays events are happening.
Burn dimmocraps for fuel and get a two-fer. Only downside would be the stench from them.
Can’t be that bad. People have burned manure for heat for thousands of years.
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