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.
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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.
The regulatory authority for all this is based on the 1991 Clean Air Act, so you can thank H W Bush for giving the Admin State authority to do this.
!990 Clean Air Act
“..!990 Clean Air Act...”
Which in a sane world, would have been headed to the dustbin of history a long time ago..
Mine was so nice, I decided that I would always make it from scratch if I can do it far enough ahead of time. It wasn’t hard, just time consuming. Now the mushrooms to cover the tenderloin with was another thing. I don’t have a food processor, so that was done by hand, too. It was a labor of love, that Beef Wellington. It was fabulous, though. Just beautiful.
We have to stop using the words “climate activist” and replace with “weather retard” as we laugh in their faces
I have what was a top of the line 12 year old Kenmore fridge that stopped working. A bit of troubleshooting identified that I needed a new starter kit. I contacted a parts supplier, but they couldn’t get the right starter kit, and I ended up waiting for months....fortunately I have another fridge. When the delay in getting parts continued I told the parts supplier they were forcing me to scrap a fridge all for the sake of what should have been a readily available part. The parts supplier told me “you absolutely do not want to scrap that fridge....the new ones are such junk you will be very lucky to get 5 years out of one and it might be only 2 or 3.” OK....so I put the Kenmore in the garage and waited.
So there’s the dilemma....new ones are junk and parts for old ones are unavailable at least for my Kenmore. I do know one thing.....the other reason why I wanted my Kenmore fixed was because it was understandable and easy to repair. In researching the new ones they appear to be unserviceable and thus no option but to junk if they fail.
What an unworkable situation....clearly other options are needed.
Yep! Perhaps even Hysterical Weather Retards.
New microwaves are not much better.
Best option for those is to check thrift stores to see what they have.
We have a couple older ones, same model, we got for each kid when they went to college. We got them back when they went out on their own. Then I found one of the exact model in a thrift store for $8 and snatched it for parts.
Parts for the new ones cost almost as much as the new one would to they seem to be deliberately making with planned obsolescence. Which is so hypocritical when they complain about the wasted natural resources in our disposable society.
Well, fer crying out loud, make stuff to last and easy to repair and nobody will be filling up landfills with staff that shouldn’t have to be scrapped in only a couple years.
Which is so hypocritical when they complain about the wasted natural resources....
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That is all you need to know right there to understand that this never was about ‘reducing energy’ or the ‘environment’...This is all just part of a grand marketing scheme of some sort. I suspect that the WEF theme of ‘owning nothing’ is part of it and very quickly we’ll get to the point where it is norm to not own a fridge..... you’ll just buy ‘cooling’ and they will just replace it every few years.
The updated standards will start being implemented between 2029 and 2030.
Good deal their dumb asses will be long gone and their plans.
But you can still visit them from 11:00am to 4:00pm at a happy farm near you.
It MIGHT lower utility costs, but it will assuredly increase capital and maintenance costs most likely more than any possible savings on utility bills.
OBTW, the repairman told her that cleaning the cooling fins regularly (every year or so) would double the life of it. And for some strange reason, after the kids left home and all of pets died, the cooling fins no longer attract fuzz.
Sounds like it was wonderful!
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