Posted on 07/12/2023 7:17:18 AM PDT by Red Badger
July 12 (UPI) -- The Biden administration has announced plans to continue its reduction of hydrofluorocarbons, releasing a new rule that aims to cut the United States' use of the greenhouse gases by almost half starting next year.
Hydrofluorocarbon is a category of greenhouse gases used for refrigeration and air-conditioning as well as in a number of other applications, but is linked to global warming.
The final rule announced Tuesday by the Environmental Protection Agency will reduce HFC consumption in the United States based on historic levels by 40% between 2024 and 2028.
The reduction will be on top of the 10% drop in HFC consumption that was implemented in 2022 under the bipartisan 2020 American Innovation and Manufacturing Act that sets the goal to reduce the production and consumption of HFCs by 85% by 2036 in an effort to prevent a 0.5 degree Celsius increase in global temperature by the next century.
To achieve this goal, the EPA has been charged under the AIM Act with phasing down the production and consumption of HFCs, managing HFCs and their substitutes and facilitating a transition to next-generation technologies.
Since the phasedown began on Jan. 1, 2022, allowances have been required to import and produce HFCs. Under the new rule announced Tuesday, the number of allowances made available for the production and consumption of the greenhouse gases will experience "a significant decrease," the EPA said.
"By phasing down the use of these super pollutants, we can both address climate change and support domestic manufacturing -- a win-win," Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., said in a statement.
The EPA added that it plans to implement two more actions under the AIM Act this year, one placing restrictions on HFCs in specific sectors and another establishing requirements for the management of HFCs and their substitutes in devices such as air conditioners.
Yep. My mother replaced her condo a/c two years ago for $3K. Friend replaced his in April--same brand and size as my mother's--$5500. I was gobsmacked.
Jesus you can come anytime. This world sucks more than I could ever imagine it would in my lifetime.
Crippling the conservative south.
Do not enforce it for at least 20 years so I can die before it is implemented.
The best speculative stock to buy is 25 to 30 pound cans of refrigerant.
These people are delusional but don’t care.
You can hardly find 134 for your car ac and everything they come out with requires much higher pressures to get it to cool while expanding. Higher pressure makes it harder to contain and harder to pump and less efficient requiring more energy in a self-defeating loop. Even 410 is phasing out and it has not been around that long. 410 expands so little you can hardly distinguish between suction and discharge pressures.
I have nearly a full bottle of R-22 I bought nearly 10 years ago. It has gone up more than anything I own. Now it is right at or over $1,000 per 30 lbs. I think I gave something like $200.
We are simply going to hell in a hand basket under the crushing thumb of these lefties. By the time the sheeple wake up, if they ever do, it will be to late to salvage and grass roots rebuilding will be all that is left to do.
Older Americans with less AC will potentially die in their millions. They are mostly GOP voters. This is attempted mass murder.
With a dew point of 75 degrees here today there isn’t any such thing as a swamp cooler.
[[but is linked to global warming]]
Bullcrap!
First Biden came for your gasoline automobile. Then he came for your gas stove. Now he is coming for your air conditioner.
No air conditioners for you peasants!
As if all it takes is to make a rule and presto chango the rule is fulfilled. LOL
Sit in your cave and eat bugs, or join us in the death camps.
The war of wealth sovereigns on the common man continues...
THEY will have their own special hospitals where all the best equipment is still available. We’ll be the ones who can’t get the proper tests. They’ll also have working A/C, good food, gas stoves to cook on and real cars to ferry them around the manor.
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And eat bugs..................
End the oppressors, not the Compressors.................
And still, to this day, there are tens of millions of people who don’t (or won’t) condemn the WEF for this crap. Those people are a complete waste of oxygen and are leading us to our downfall.
Yup- Who needs congress.
The goal is to make A/C unaffordable.
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