Posted on 01/05/2025 3:18:34 AM PST by Libloather
The Biden administration is banning certain natural gas water heaters from the market as part of its climate change agenda, a move critics say will jack up energy costs for low-income and senior households.
The move in the final days of the administration will take non-condensing, natural gas-fired water heaters off the shelves by 2029 in a bid to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, which climate change advocates and President Biden say cause global warming.
The new rules will require new tankless gas water heaters to use about 13% less energy than today’s least efficient tankless models.
The rules apply to both non-condensing and condensing gas water heaters, but the rules hike efficiency requirements to a threshold that only condensing models can meet, effectively banning the cheaper but less efficient non-condensing models, according to The Washington Free Beacon. Condensing technology wastes less heat.
Consumers will be forced to buy more expensive models or cheaper non-instantaneous storage tank water heaters, which are less efficient than the models being banned by the DOE.
Tankless technology is often used when space is at a premium, such as in apartment buildings and in smaller homes, Diana Furchtgott-Ruth, director of the Center for Energy, Climate and Environment, wrote in The Daily Signal.
For instance, Rinnai America is the only company that produces tankless water heaters in the United States. Its tankless, non-condensing natural gas water heater sells for about $1,000 at Home Depot, compared to $1,800 for a condensing 75-gallon tank.
The new rules were published by the Department of Energy (DOE) the day after Christmas, although the agency did not make a public announcement. Fox Business has reached out to the DOE for comment.
Matthew Agen, the American Gas Association’s chief counsel for energy, blasted the move, labeling it “deeply concerning and irresponsible.”
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“Climate Change Advocates = Lobbyists
$$$$$$$$$”
Democrat induced global warming panic, allows the Dems to transfer hundreds of billions to their connected donors. Who run Greenie businesses. Such as nonsensical projects to pump (sequester) CO2 underground, so that it cannot do any global warming.
These global warming $$$pirates$$$ love the brainwashed, panicked college youth who give them ideological cover and justification.
Does this apply to propane gas water heaters as well?
Green houses buy CO2 and pipe it into their nurseries. Plants like CO2. If The Stupid Party knew this, they would inform the brain dead public. Instead they look the other way as we build high pressure pipelines to siphon “captured” CO2 to underground caverns. The dumb thing this country does is mind boggling.
Agree the simple minded are the first to take the bait.
Oh yes
Yes, they are easy to install in an area that doesn’t require a permit to buy/intall and a permit to get a government plumbing inspector to approve the work. Home Depot and Lowe’s here won’t sell one to a homeowner unless you present the permit.
The new ones are more complex now. They have a built in heat pump you have to wire in and when it goes out (which it will) you’ll end up replacing it again.
Then drive to the next town. Or state.
Depends what you buy. I just did a basic one a year ago.
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