Posted on 03/24/2023 2:53:04 PM PDT by Libloather
The Biden administration announced its latest home appliance regulations this week, targeting air conditioners in an action it said would reduce the nation's carbon emissions.
The regulations, unveiled Thursday by the Department of Energy (DOE), finalize energy efficiency standards for home air conditioning units, or window air conditioners, and portable air cleaners. The DOE said the move would cut air pollution and push consumer costs down by billions of dollars via energy savings.
"Today’s announcement builds on the historic actions President Biden took last year to strengthen outdated energy efficiency standards, which will help save on people’s energy bills and reduce our nation’s carbon footprint," Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said in a statement.
"DOE will continue to engage with our public and private sector partners to finalize additional proposals like today’s that lower household energy costs and deliver the safer, healthier communities that every American deserves," she continued.
According to the DOE, the new energy efficiency standards will save Americans about $1.5 billion annually and curb carbon dioxide emissions by 106 million metric tons over three decades. The agency added that the regulations were part of President Biden's efforts to promote innovation and lower costs for families "while tackling the climate crisis."
The rules for air cleaners are scheduled to be implemented in 2024 and the rules for room air conditioners are slated for 2026.
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The aggregate savings will be in the adverse. HVAC units will condition the space less effectively while using less electricity for longer periods of time. The units will last substantially shorter periods of time necessitating increased mining of raw materials and more energy used in the manufacturing of replacement units resulting in a net increase in carbon to the atmosphere.
Your plan has my vote.
Next - refrigerators!!!
They want us poor and starving, unarmed and dependent on Government. USSR. North Korea. China. Redux.
The free market is naturally super energy efficient. The way to get rich in a free market is to figure out how to use less energy than everybody else. The winners in the air conditioner space already have the most energy efficient solutions available. Design-by-committee top-down regulations will only trip them up and make everything worse.
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