Tired of seeing Democrats make things more expensive for the middle class and the poor
What Democrat Joe Biden did to the food prices alone these last 4 years is outrageous
All according to plan
Posted on 01/05/2025 3:18:34 AM PST by Libloather
The Biden administration is banning certain natural gas water heaters from the market as part of its climate change agenda, a move critics say will jack up energy costs for low-income and senior households.
The move in the final days of the administration will take non-condensing, natural gas-fired water heaters off the shelves by 2029 in a bid to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, which climate change advocates and President Biden say cause global warming.
The new rules will require new tankless gas water heaters to use about 13% less energy than today’s least efficient tankless models.
The rules apply to both non-condensing and condensing gas water heaters, but the rules hike efficiency requirements to a threshold that only condensing models can meet, effectively banning the cheaper but less efficient non-condensing models, according to The Washington Free Beacon. Condensing technology wastes less heat.
Consumers will be forced to buy more expensive models or cheaper non-instantaneous storage tank water heaters, which are less efficient than the models being banned by the DOE.
Tankless technology is often used when space is at a premium, such as in apartment buildings and in smaller homes, Diana Furchtgott-Ruth, director of the Center for Energy, Climate and Environment, wrote in The Daily Signal.
For instance, Rinnai America is the only company that produces tankless water heaters in the United States. Its tankless, non-condensing natural gas water heater sells for about $1,000 at Home Depot, compared to $1,800 for a condensing 75-gallon tank.
The new rules were published by the Department of Energy (DOE) the day after Christmas, although the agency did not make a public announcement. Fox Business has reached out to the DOE for comment.
Matthew Agen, the American Gas Association’s chief counsel for energy, blasted the move, labeling it “deeply concerning and irresponsible.”
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Can Trump reverse it?
Who hates the poor while at the same time trying to create as many of them as possible? Answer: communists.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but the condensing units need an electric exhaust fan as the exhaust is too cold to have the heat of the gas cause it to rise and go outside.
Since when did the executive branch have the authority to unilaterally ban consumer goods?
Probably...But the problem is STATES are doing this...like NYS...and not sure what can be done about it....except maybe get Hochul out of there.
It turnes out that the Green Agenda is nothing but MOLD!
Since they control governmental agencies to oversee every aspect of our lives. We can’t afford automobiles now because of the necessary can’t live without extras packed in them. You have to have airbags - no exceptions. You have to have 5 separate computers in your vehicle. You have to have back-up cameras in your vehicle. You have to pass their ever tightening exhaust test no matter the cost for the smallest amount of improvement. You will be priced out of everything that makes life livable. Your food supply costs will go up as nutrition and quality will decrease.
There are many paranoids and paranoid EPA bureaucrats in the US, who fear natural gas use due to possible explosions. This is part of the drive to replace home water heaters, stoves, home gas appliances with electric ones.
I remember when Nancy Pelosi was a prime mover on electricity generation, on replacing coal-fired plants, with natural gas ones. California did this.
But these days global warming crackpots wage war on natural gas, due to CO2
Call center productivity = (Total number of resolved calls / total number of handled calls) X 100.
Create a minimum level and fire those below that level! You know, no waste of energy, more efficient!
My understanding of a recent Supreme Court decision is that this stuff needs to be legislated by an act of Congress. The bureaucratic communists can no longer make up laws and enforce them.
So my venture is yes, this will be reversed by Trump.
You’re not giving due credit to the Bushes with the Patriot Act, etc.
“communism is not love. communism is a hammer we use to crush our enemies” Mao. guess who their enemies are.
“The bureaucratic communists can no longer make up laws and enforce them.”
How many of these maggots know they do nothing useful. But want to keep their fat Federale paychecks. So they generate destructive regulations, in order to appear gainfully employed.
Yeah, fjb and everyone else in his filthy administration. I hope I can live to see his time come and gone. it won't change much, there is always another like him or worse to follow him. At least the face and the name will change.
The war against the people.
Thanks guys.
The federal government can easily stop states from setting their own standards under the interstate commerce clause.
Follow the money. Democrats are picking winners and losers in the marketplace again.
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