[Libloather]

Let's go Brandon.

[Mark17]

Can Trump reverse it?

[Telepathic Intruder]

Who hates the poor while at the same time trying to create as many of them as possible? Answer: communists.

[tired&retired]

Correct me if I’m wrong, but the condensing units need an electric exhaust fan as the exhaust is too cold to have the heat of the gas cause it to rise and go outside.

[rottndog]

Since when did the executive branch have the authority to unilaterally ban consumer goods?

[Highest Authority]

It turnes out that the Green Agenda is nothing but MOLD!

[dennisw]

There are many paranoids and paranoid EPA bureaucrats in the US, who fear natural gas use due to possible explosions. This is part of the drive to replace home water heaters, stoves, home gas appliances with electric ones.

I remember when Nancy Pelosi was a prime mover on electricity generation, on replacing coal-fired plants, with natural gas ones. California did this.
But these days global warming crackpots wage war on natural gas, due to CO2

[Lockbox]

Gee, suggestion for Doge, let’s improve Government Employee production. Let’s start with call centers.

Call center productivity = (Total number of resolved calls / total number of handled calls) X 100.

Create a minimum level and fire those below that level! You know, no waste of energy, more efficient!

[Sequoyah101]

For those who don't know or remember, not long ago you could buy a good hot water heater for between 400 and 500 bucks. Tops. Then EPA stuck their filthy nose into that and doubled the prices overnight. Then came covid.

Yeah, fjb and everyone else in his filthy administration. I hope I can live to see his time come and gone. it won't change much, there is always another like him or worse to follow him. At least the face and the name will change.

[Salman]

The war against the people.

[johniegrad]

Follow the money. Democrats are picking winners and losers in the marketplace again.

[4yearlurker]

I had a 40 gallon gas water heater installed last summer. Total bill was 1,150 dollars. Not that long ago it was 350 dollars.

[jdsteel]

Who can rid me of these meddlesome priests (of the climate alarmist religion)???

[Vaduz]

Climate Change Advocates = Lobbyists
$$$$$$$$$

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"The new rules were published by the Department of Energy (DOE) the day after Christmas, although the agency did not make a public announcement."

The bastards operate under the cover of darkness.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Back on April 30, 2024, the DOE instructed us:

DOE Finalizes Efficiency Standards for Water Heaters to Save Americans Over $7 Billion on Household Utility Bills Annually

Finalized Residential Water Heater Standards Have Strong Industry and Stakeholder Support, Will Accelerate the Deployment of Heat Pump Water Heaters, and Represent Largest Energy Savings Action by the Appliance Standards Program in History

Who could possibly object to our wonderful, beneficent, all-caring government wanting to save us $7 billion?

The DOE wrote "Strong Industry and Stakeholder Support." Yeah, so strong that they had to sneak the rule out the day after Christmas without a public announcement. And this article belies the "strong support" crap.

Of course, what they don't tell you is that we will have to spend $15 billion on capital expenditures to get that $7 billion operational cost savings.

If the ROI was there, people would be buying condensing water heaters on their own, just like they would be buying EVs on their own if there were no government $7,500 subsidy.

[Georgia Girl 2]

In 2029 Biden will be dead. This will never happen. Trump will simply stop it.

[vpintheak]

You see how these tools move goal posts? Natural gas is cleaner, move to it. Wait, you can’t use it, you have to use something else. What a pant load

[bert]

The ban is a trivial bone thrown to envirowackos

The number of affected water heaters is trivial

[Pelham]

DOGE needs to abolish the Department of Energy on day one.

[Cobra64]

Does this apply to propane gas water heaters as well?