Posted on 12/30/2023 7:54:30 PM PST by SeekAndFind
If there was no other reason -- and there are plenty -- not to vote for Joe Biden, the fact that his administration has opened the door to more and more governmental control would be a great one.
Climate change is a big excuse to make all kinds of societal transformative change and control our actions--not to mention, destroying or building up industries with those controls and restrictions. Coal and oil are bad, electrical vehicles (except those from that evil Elon Musk) are good. Government shouldn't be in the business of picking winners and losers, yet that's what they doing with their attempts at control.
But it looks like they'd rather we not pay attention to what they're trying to do. Perhaps that might explain announcing new regulations about refrigerators and freezers on Friday, as we head into the holiday weekend. They also announced proposed standards for commercial fans and blowers.
Overall, the agency said the actions would eliminate 420 million metric tons of "dangerous carbon dioxide emissions" over the next three decades and save households and businesses $5 billion a year on utility bills.
"Today’s announcement is a testament to the Biden-Harris Administration's commitment to lowering utility costs for working families, which is helping to simultaneously strengthen energy independence and combat the climate crisis," Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said in a statement.
The updated standards will start being implemented between 2029 and 2030, and will follow the lead of similar versions in California. Oh, great. Following what Democrats do in California is a recipe for failure, While Granholm claims that this will lower utility costs, this move will take cheaper models off the market which will impact the people who can't afford to pay more.
Ben Lieberman, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, blasted the move.
Consumers are perfectly capable of making these decisions on their own, including consumers who want to buy extra efficient refrigerators or other models. What these standards do is they force that choice on everyone, whether it makes sense for them or not. And we know from history that, in some cases, these standards raise the upfront cost more than you're likely to earn back in the form of energy savings."
He warned not only are these standards likely going to make things cost more but that they could also impact performance, pointing to the new standards for dishwashers making them take twice as long to finish. He believes the standards for gas stoves that were proposed in February would result in an effective ban on half of the gas stoves on the market.
The Biden team proposed or finalized 30 such regulations in 2023 and plans on more in 2024.
In the months after DOE released its proposed stovetop regulations, it proposed regulations in February for clothes washers and refrigerators that it said would reduce emissions by 233 million metric tons; finalized standards for air conditioners in March; proposed regulations cracking down on dishwashers in May; issued a proposal targeting water heaters in July; and proposed standards for furnaces in September.
Is there anything they don't want to control? It doesn't look like it.
"They are trying to reshape the place that you live to make it look like the home they would like you to live in," O.H. Skinner, the Alliance For Consumers' executive director, told Fox News Digital in October. "They're really trying to impose what are progressive preferences from places in coastal enclaves and make it so that everyone has to live like that. And that affects you every day."
"What's crucial is to understand this administration isn't just tweaking regulations. They're doing things that effectively ban whole categories of things that exist on the market," Skinner continued. "Almost all of these decisions, as you work through it, are influenced by the overall climate agenda and the green agenda and the desire for us to change our lives."
And yet, they don't want to change their own lives, even as they want to control yours.
Kamala Harris posted a picture of what she was supposedly cooking for Christmas dinner. She cropped out the gas stove, but you could still see a little of it. They want to dictate the rules for you and me, but not for themselves.
READ MORE: Kamala Follows Up Her Christmas Eve Post With Another One That Gets Blasted on Social Media
Merry Christmas to all. May your day be filled with love, family, and good food.
P.S. We are making Christmas beef Wellington. pic.twitter.com/6QErBwprcS— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) December 25, 2023
Maybe it's just me, but I don't believe that Kamala can make a Beef Wellington.
Pork and beans is more her style.
*** Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t believe that Kamala can make a Beef Wellington***
I made a Beef Wellington for Christmas dinner a year ago, including the puff pastry from scratch. It was labor-intensive, and I agree that Harris may have ordered one for dinner. No way she and Doug did that on their own.
The current administration is pure treason.
We have a fridge in our garage that’s our very first one. 37 years old and still kicking. It has never had a repair once. I wonder if they even make the parts for it anymore if it ever fails us. It has no bells or whistles, but it sure does the job, especially at holiday time when we need the extra space. The one in our kitchen is pretty, but it’s counter-depth, so doesn’t hold that much.
Bitch! Bitch! Bitch!
Won’t do any good...
Tyranny, once inside the gates, is not fought and defeated by bitching...
Apparently, not by voting either...
With bug beef I hope. Otherwise she is a hypocrite or just utterly uncomprehending of the various positions that have been taken on her behalf. And I apologize for any misgendering that I may have committed.
Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t believe that Kamala can make a Beef Wellington.
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She has a personal chef.
Crazy, demented POS. People will be pissin’ on the boy’s grave for 200 years for what he has done to America, MOST OF WHICH CAN’T EVER BE REVERSED.
This is the juveniles who are running the country. All Biden knows bout fridges is that’s where the Puddin’ Pops are, and the freezer is where they keep the ice cream...yum!
For a minute there I thought they would tell us to keep our refrigerators at 62.
Anything is possible with them.
That sure sounds like a lot, doesn't it? (notice the "three decades" time period - they always do that).
Annual global annual emissions were 37.15 billion tons in 2022 (37.15 e9). Biden is going to reduce CO2 emissions by 14 million tons per year or 15.4 short tons (U.S. measurement; 15.4 e6).
So Biden is going to make all of our lives miserable to reduce annual global CO2 emissions by 0.042%.
Joe, why don't you ask your masters in China to build ONE less coal fired power plant?
I don’t believe Suck Machine can boil water without burning it.
Hang them all in the public square!
My husband made puff pastry from scratch once. We decided to always buy it, from then on :-)
she probably cheats on the crust using Pepp Farm frozen pastry dough.
shes a headcase if you ask me on and off “ stage”
The less efficient they make appliances, the more they are used and the sooner they wear out.
Water saver toilets do not save water when you have to flush twice.
Washing machines which use less water will not reduce water use. People will not put up with dirty clothes so will do smaller loads more often, wearing the machine out sooner, which means replacing it more often, increasing the trash load, and ultimately using more water in the extra loads.
The list can go on.
*** Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t believe that Kamala can make a Beef Wellington***
I agree, but you have to admit she does make a world class word salad.
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