Posted on 08/08/2023 8:37:53 AM PDT by Red Badger
The Biden administration’s War on Modernity is death by a thousand regulations.
It’s no secret that the Biden admin wants to ditch gas stoves as well as impose harsh regulations on washing machines, dishwashers, water heaters, refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners, and anything else they can think of under the guise of “saving the planet” from climate change.
These regulations make things more expensive and people either shell out more of their hard-earned dollars for a basic necessity or do without because the appliance has been priced out of reach.
It’s also a direct attack on the freedom of the consumer to make choices by limiting them for ideological reasons.
Now that the Biden Admin is going to make air conditioning more expensive, the next target for the White House climate change activists living in the Acela Corridor is… ceiling fans.
Earlier this summer, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) published a notice of proposed rulemaking regarding energy conservation standards for ceiling fans. If adopted, the new “energy efficiency” standards would apply to all standard ceiling fans, hugger ceiling fans, large-diameter ceiling fans and high-speed belt-driven ceiling fans. Biden’s Energy Department will accept comments, data and information on the proposed rule no later than August 21. “DOE has tentatively concluded that the proposed standards represent the maximum improvement in energy efficiency that is technologically feasible and economically justified, and would result in the significant conservation of energy,” the department said. Source: American Military News
Ceiling fans are popular because either: (a)people can’t afford to put in air conditioning, or (b) they want to use them instead of turning on the A/C.
If you buy into the climate stuff, the Biden admin is now targeting the more environmentally-friendly option.
Is there no one from the DOE that’s from anywhere south of Virginia?!
What is up with these people and the regulations?
When President Trump took office, one of his first moves was to cut regulations, but Biden put them right in place.
Here is President Trump talking about that very thing this past weekend in the way that only President Trump does.
Trump on job-killing regulations: “You know, I have this gorgeous head of hair. When I take a shower, I want water to pour down on me…” 😂 pic.twitter.com/3DkjR75LF8
— Julia 🇺🇸 (@Jules31415) August 6, 2023
Biden’s former climate advisor was crowing about all the regulations they had imposed on appliances in 2022.
Biden climate advisor Gina McCarthy: "We're actually going to do 100 rules this year alone on appliances."
The airlines are "gonna be out of here" if they don’t follow Biden’s Green New Deal-style rules. pic.twitter.com/AKI7InJDBw
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 4, 2022
Let’s not forget that this spring, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said that she believed that the entire U.S. military should adopt an ALL-electric vehicle fleet by 2030.
Biden Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says she supports requiring the U.S. military to adopt an ALL-electric vehicle fleet by 2030 pic.twitter.com/pw4F3jmrpo
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 26, 2023
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said that you can save on the high price of gas by buying an electric car.
Pete Buttigieg: Upset with near-record gas prices? Too bad. Buy an electric vehicle.
(The average cost of an electric vehicle is over $55,000) pic.twitter.com/VjBvhx4RGd
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 7, 2022
Vice President Kamala “Identity Hire” Harris was weirdly gushing about electric buses…
KAMALA HARRIS gushes over electric school buses: "The bus has Wi-Fi and even USB outlets next to every seat. I mean, come on, imagine — you could charge your phone!" pic.twitter.com/bbvwc2xQs7
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 11, 2023
…but notice that none of them ever seem to admit where the electricity comes from and what it will do to the grid if we all move over to EVs.
Not to mention that China practically has a monopoly on the raw materials needed to make the batteries and the horrors of what goes on to mine them.
Guest On Joe Rogan’s Podcast Exposes The Horrors Of Mining Cobalt Used In Lithium Batteries
But hey, according to the Left, it’s all about “saving the planet” not about pushing an anti-human agenda.
That’s why Democrats think that all the little people should suffer… after all, “we’re all in this together”, right? Now, where have I heard that before…? Oh, right. It was during the pandemic when politicians and the elite flouted COVID restrictions and raked in billions in profits while insisting that you shut down your small business, not attend funerals and closed the schools and churches. It seems like “we” doesn’t include “them” very often, does it?
Pandemic panic is being transformed into climate panic right before our eyes because the people in power need to keep the public in fear so that they can take even more power.
And they’ll go after everything… right down to your ceiling fans.
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This whole part of the Dep Of Energy must by law be reduced to nothing more legally demanding as a consumer reports set of recommendations, as in “Good”, “Better” and “Best” ratings that by law can be imposed on no one individual or company. Let the consumer decide.
Control, plain and simple.
Amazon has a 40” ceiling fan with 23 watt built in LED light. Total energy usage is 47 watts.
A 16” oscillating fan uses 60 watts.
These things aren’t our energy hogs or our polluters.
So it is the same concept as the double flush toilet. It is hard to see how they would work as commercial washing machines when time is money..
I have 7 ceiling fans scattered throughout the house. Thankfully I replaced all of them the past two years. But the time I have to replace again (18 years from now). All the transition and quirks will be done. It’s always a bad idea to buy a new “improved” item. Wait a few years if you can.
We had to replace our old Kenmore washing machine last year, so we went with the simplest Speed Queen top loader we could find. It does a good wash on big loads and spins them much drier than the old machine did. A Speed Queen costs more than a lot of other washers, but we’re hoping it will last a good long while.
bttt
No Electricity comes from solar panels, windmills, and unicorn farts.
Mostly unicorn farts.
None of these pollute during production or generate huge piles of unrecyclable waste ...
Brushless DC motors are highly efficient compared to a standard induction motor. They also last much longer. However, the cost of the fan will be about double.
If one wanted real efficiency the fan blade itself should be like an airfoil of an airplane and have a brushless DC motor. A flat blade causes much more turbulence across the blade that represents wasted energy. The noise you hear when running a fan at high speed is all turbulence.
If offered I would buy such a fan despite the higher cost. I sure as hell do not want the government telling me I MUST BY IT!
I was expecting to have to flush twice with my toilets. But they are a strong flush even though it saves water. I was surprised.
I have speed queen top load washer, front hanper door load dryer, both little over 30 years old I paid extra ($40?) to have stainless tubs. had no computer controls just switches/knobs..only repair -dryer new belt and pads that support front of drum, washer new water pump. and pump and spin belt.
Rules are laws and laws belong to legislators. This has to stop!
The ruling class just want us Plebes to eat bugs and algae, tolerate heat and cold the old fashion way by putting on or taking off layers of cloths, and live in “15-minute city refers to a place where all the necessities of daily life - shops, schools, workplaces, doctor’s offices, parks, libraries, restaurants and other amenities - are located in a short 15-minute walk or bike ride from home. They of course have 20’000 sq ft mansions heated by gas and cooled by AC, ride around in their gas guzzling limos and fly around in their “wife owned” private jets to the latest climate change symposium.
I am not giving up my natural gas collection device. Never.
Well I want to know if the rank and file dems agree with this mess.
“”””I was expecting to have to flush twice with my toilets. But they are a strong flush even though it saves water. I was surprised.””””
I like mine also but what the left does that is so costly, destructive, and wasteful is that some office people decide on a standard and then impose it on the industry, the industry then has to comply to standards that they can’t do at the time.
As a plumbing contractor, I saw the ‘lousy to mediocre’ 3.5 standard toilets come into play first and then the ‘impossible for years’ standard of 1.6 toilets.
America wasted billions of dollars replacing new and barely used lousy toilets and we plumbers filled the landfills with the failures, not to mention the countless service calls and the customer’s inconvenience of rightfully unexpected stoppages, and some people are probably still living with the lousy versions that filled the market for many years.
We see this over and over, with appliances and electric cars, all things that will probably be OK eventually but it looks like the standards created by office bureaucrats are going to just keep reaching for the stars while we mere engineers and contractors, manufacturers, and users are still earth-bound to reality limitations.
Whatsa HE washer? Did you assign a pronoun to an inanimate object?
We have hit an appliance where to cost vs savings may actually work if the new model lasts 50 years, low RPM single phase motors are unduly bad on the power factor scale. I slap new blades on 40+ year old fans about once decade.
Honestly a motion and temperature activated switch might be the best. My wife has never met a fan she failed to turn off.
The payback for a 160W nominal 4 foot ceiling fan over a 50 year lifetime just might work out. I will suspect the new fans will look like the old fans and the Printed Circuit boards will degrade and power caps will be blown out in less than 15 years.
There just isnt a lot left in peoples homes that can save power. Sitting watching a OLED flat screen, PC that consumes 9W, in a heat pump cooled or heated house, with a insulated water heater and dishwasher and clotheswasher that takes hours to cycle. We are down to walwarts and dad problems. I will kill a platoon of EPA police when they come after the on demand water heater.
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