Posted on 07/05/2013 4:10:25 PM PDT by raptor22
Regulation: No longer the stuff of science fiction, a little-noticed change in energy-efficiency requirements for appliances could lead to government controlling the power used in your home and how you set your thermostat.
In a seemingly innocuous revision of its Energy Star efficiency requirements announced June 27, the Environmental Protection Agency included an "optional" requirement for a "smart-grid" connection for customers to electronically connect their refrigerators or freezers with a utility provider.
The feature lets the utility provider regulate the appliances' power consumption, "including curtailing operations during more expensive peak-demand times."
So far, manufacturers are not required to include the feature, only "encouraged," and consumers must still give permission to turn it on. But with the Obama administration's renewed focus on fighting mythical climate change, we expect it to become mandatory to save the planet from the perils of keeping your beer too cold.
"Manufacturers that build in and certify optional 'connected features' will earn a credit towards meeting the Energy Star efficiency requirements," according to an EPA email to CNSNews.com.
We are both intrigued and bothered by the notion that a utility company, the regulated energy sock-puppet of government, could and probably will have the power to regulate the power we use and how we use it, as long as we're paying our electricity bills, even to the point of turning these devices and appliances off at will.
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Thems fightin’ words! Actually, I prefer wine, but still...
Is the EPA going to buy me new food when their control shuts off my refrigerator and all my food goes bad.....?
IBD EDITORIAL PING
So if one day you keep your house too cool or your beer too cold and the dials start moving, don’t be surprised. Its just a campaign promise being kept.
Waaaaaaaaay too funny. ROFLMAO!
Congress should kill this “optional” turkey and the EPA or at least strip them of their regulatory power.
Rosso o bianco?
This one just might wake up the sheeple. Sometimes it’s the little things that bring down the monsters.
All of the above. LOL I used to work for a liquor/wine wholesaler and got to drink really great wine. Now that I have to pay for it myself, not so much.
“Congress should kill this “optional” turkey and the EPA or at least strip them of their regulatory power.”
The Republican House can defund the EPA any time it wants to and there isn’t a think Obama and Harry Reid can do to stop them unless they completely tear up the Constitution. The fact the EPA exists and continues with the insanity says the Republicans approve of the agency’s performance.
We're all in this together, kid.
Ping.
IMO, Big Bro and Big Sis will be in bed with you next and control your bedroom, ya think? It’s called total control of our lives and even deaths via DeathCare.
Okay, so it’s box of Franzia time or a jug of Carlo Rossi. :)
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