Posted on 05/22/2023 7:51:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A new Department of Energy (DOE) rule requiring mobile homes to be made more energy-efficient in order to reduce carbon emissions not only will have no effect on carbon emissions, but also will drive up the cost of such housing, making it unaffordable for many low-income households.
The DOE’s rule — all 97 pages of it — requires mobile, or manufactured, homes to meet strict energy-conservation standards by improving insulation and sealing. The rule is set to take effect next Wednesday, barely more than a year after it was finalized.
“DOE’s new energy efficiency rules will help save the 17 million Americans residing in mobile homes up to $475 per year on average on their utility bills,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said in a press release. “The rules will hold manufacturers of these U.S. homes to cost-saving efficiency standards, giving residents more comfortable living environments and a much-needed break on their annual utility costs, while delivering cleaner air for their communities.”
As with most government pronouncements, Granholm’s bears little resemblance to reality.
According to the DOE, the new standards “will help bring the country closer to reaching President Biden’s goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.” That is true in the same sense that taking one step to the east of Los Angeles brings one closer to reaching New York by nightfall.
“According to the DOE’s own estimates, over a 30-year period, the new rule will reduce CO2 emissions by 80.4 million metric tons,” the Manhattan Institute’s Jonathan Lesser told the Daily Caller. “By comparison, according to the 2022 BP Statistical Review of World Energy, U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions were 4.7 billion metric tons. So, over a 30-year period, the new rule will reduce CO2 emissions by the equivalent of...
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The traitorous DOE will soon force (white) people to live in caves.
Folks in mobile homes presumably already have a smaller “carbon footprint” than those in bigger houses, no?
Government climate marxism is going to kill us all
How long was the public comment period?
How many positive and negative comments did they get?
I hate mobile homes. Most are disposable construction. The people that buy them can’t afford the payments and can’t afford the upkeep if they even try at all for the most part.
The kids used to say; What is the same between a tornado and a divorce in Pinehurst, Texas? Somebody loses a mobile home in bot events.
Nevertheless, granholm is a certifiable dickweed.
The party of Science! strikes again, aiming squarely at poor or marginalized retired people.
Everything the democrats do is designed to make things more expensive and to take away more freedoms from the American citizen. Meanwhile, illegal aliens are being given more money and more freedoms than American citizens have had in decades.
Why is it NOTHING demoncrats do to make things more expensive has a “disproportionate impact on communities of color?”
It would have been better to require manufacturers to build mobile homes with extra insulation as an option for buyers.
Making it an option eliminates the manufacturer’s ability to charge excessively for the extra insulation since buyers would still have the choice of the less-insulated model.
That's one of the dumbest blanket statements I've read in a while.
Destroy the low income and middle class to a point that they all must depend on GOV to maintain life.
Dang, what a nasty comment...
It would have been better to require manufacturers to build mobile homes with extra insulation as an option for buyers.
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Already has been done. 50 years ago.
“Snow country option” = 6 inch walls and extra roof insulation.
I will say that also worked well in desert heat.
“Already has been done. 50 years ago.”
I’m not surprised.
We had a home in San Jose (mild climate) with no insulation. Then got ceiling insulation blown in. Made a big difference. Still no wall insulation. That was a lot more expensive.
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