Posted on 10/19/2021 9:34:25 AM PDT by karpov
If you’re in the market for a new home appliance and you want that purchase to be as environmentally friendly as possible, you might look for options that feature a label from Energy Star, a symbol backed by the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy specifically to promote energy-efficient products.
Each year, Energy Star puts out a list of the Most Efficient appliances, those that the program says “save you money and protect the environment.” The list also features the “most efficient, pollution-reducing products.” Until now, that list might have included gas-powered appliances such as gas dryers, furnaces, and boilers—despite the fact that those items rely on polluting fossil fuels.
For its 2022 Energy Star Most Efficient list, though, the EPA announced that it will not include furnaces, boilers, or gas dryers, a move that was spurred by activism from environmental groups such as the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Rewiring America, Sierra Club, and the Rocky Mountain Institute. For the first time, the list will include only electric appliances that can run on 100% clean energy. (The 2022 Most Efficient list isn’t out yet; the EPA just recently finalized its criteria for the products eligible for recognition, which meant the removal of gas dryers, furnaces, and boilers, according to a September 28 memo.)
“Water heaters, furnaces, and dryers, they produce a really significant amount of both greenhouse gas pollution and other kinds of air pollution,” says Denise Grab, manager of the Rocky Mountain Institute’s Carbon-Free Building team. (Gas stoves are also particularly polluting, but there is currently no Energy Star label for any residential ovens or ranges.) Across the country, fuel combustion from homes and businesses produced 590 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent—almost 9% of total U.S. greenhouse gas—in 2018 alone.
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An electric water heater would result in a massively bigger utility bill than a gas heater.
This is not an unintended consequence.
The problem with electrical appliances is the government can shut off the electricity at any time for any reason, leaving you without the ability to cook on your stove or heat your water. I would also mention gas furnaces, but they rely on electricity for the circuit boards and fans.
The Great Reset is going to drive us from the technological 21st century back to the pre-industrial 15th Century. Dark Ages 2.0.
Also onsite fuel usage for heating is more efficient than remote usage to produce electricity. Gas furnaces and clothes dryers are cheaper to run than electric ones. There is a lot of waste heat produced to boil water to run turbines, while in a furnace all heat produced is useful. There is no way to get 90% efficiency in a generator like you can with a gas furnace
THEY can shut off whatever they like whenever they want. Now, if you buy a brand new Ford all electric pick up you can simply power your house with that. See how well that works after a storm that knocks you off grid for a few weeks. 😕
Apparently some people are gullible enough to use Energy Star ratings. That gives me an idea. Let’s forge a Energy Star stickers with the highest possible rating and put them on wood stoves and coalfired furnaces.
It is time that these know-nothings stop pushing us around. Have you noticed how their whole scheme is to stack the free market deck? Their trashy products can't compete on their own merits so they have to rig the system against the consumer. How dare you!
Me, I love the smell of dung fires in the morning from the veranda of my mud hut. Least effected? Folks living in yurts in Mongolia.
When everything becomes electric you can be shut out of using your own property by central government controllers either manipulating the software on your devices or just by turning the power off.
LOL!
Yep. And gas stoves are so polluting that most do not have an exhaust outside the home.
When we built our house, I put in nat gas water heater, cook top and heater. When we lost power in February due to the freeze, we had hot water and could cook, but no heat. The blower on the heater runs on electricity.
I have a number of Energy Star appliances.
They ALL suck.
If I see that designation on something anymore, it’s not a selling point.
Let’s go Brandon!!!!!!!!
Same situation for us in Central Texas. I wonder if a power generator could run the electricity needed for the blower and electronics in a HVAC unit.
Unless you have a natural gas well on your property they can shot off your gas too…
So from that perspective makes no difference about gas or electric.
A friend of mine was able to buy a far large house than his income dictates due to some unusual circumstances. It has all electric heat. They can’t really afford to heat it so they freeze in winter.
In the meantime, my house is all gas except the dryer and that’s only because it came with the house and hasn’t needed to be replaced. We enjoy our temperatures.
That seems to be against code. Every house we looked at in late 2018 had an fan exhaust for their stove tops, whether gas or electric.
The elite will still have their mansions and fly over us in their private jets.
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