Posted on 03/01/2024 12:17:50 PM PST by Twotone
The Biden administration finalized regulations for residential clothes washers and dryers on Thursday.
The Department of Energy (DOE) announced that it is locking in the “energy efficiency” regulations for residential clothes washers and dryers, marking the latest development in the Biden administration’s wide effort to shape markets to decidedly favor more energy efficient appliances in the coming years. The agency stated that the rules will reduce carbon dioxide emissions and save consumers money on their water and electricity bills over the course of many years.
“For decades, DOE’s appliance standards actions for clothes washers and dryers have provided loads of savings for American families while also decreasing harmful carbon emissions,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said of the finalized regulations. Her agency contends that the rules could save Americans as much as $39 billion on their energy and water bills, while also reducing about 71 million metric tons worth of carbon dioxide emissions over the next three decades. (RELATED: Biden Admin Rolls Out Slew Of Regs Targeting Americans’ Appliances On Last Friday Of The Year)
The regulations increase the minimum water and energy efficiency levels that washers and dryers must meet down the road in order to remain on shelves. In many cases, more energy efficient units do not work as effectively or quickly as older and less efficient models, O.H. Skinner, the executive director of the Alliance for Consumers, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“Another day, another regulation from the Biden administration to remove products from the shelves and limit what people can buy in the name of their ideological goals. At this point, consumers have gotten the message: if it moves or has a motor and it is in your house, Biden would like it to cost more and probably be less effective,” Skinner told the DCNF. “Their primary rationale is that it will cost you less in the electricity bill, but don’t worry, in places like California, politicians are busy trying to drive up electricity bills, too.”
In a January opinion relating to a separate legal battle over DOE appliance energy efficiency rules for dishwashers and clothes washers, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals notably pointed out that some appliances favored by Biden administration policy “make Americans use more energy and more water for the simple reason that purportedly ‘energy efficient’ appliances do not work.”
Beyond clothes washers and dryers, the Biden DOE has also promulgated energy efficiency regulations for common household appliances like dishwashers, water heaters, furnaces and pool pump motors. The administration has also spent hundreds of millions of dollars on helping state and municipal governments pursue building codes that phase out natural gas infrastructure and favor electrification.
The DOE did not respond immediately to a request for comment.
I have a Samsung front loader with a steam cycle. My husband is a contractor so I know what you mean about DIRT-TAY! The trick with these is to use the steam cycle quite frequently and to use minimal detergent.
I also have a clothesline that I use in summer. My dryer is a GE that also has a steam cycle. Knock on wood, so far so good.
I believe it was Dennis Prager who said: “The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.”
That is absolutely true and its why the Founders tried to limit its size, scope and power. They wisely saw the dangers of allowing too much power in the hands of a few.
We have morphed into a massive kleptocracy IMO. The Founders gave us a great blueprint for lasting success but we quickly threw it away.
You need a top-loader that lets you set the water level.
We bought a Speed Queen Commercial Classic (the laundromat kind)last weekend for the simple fact that apparently the commercial ones are still exempt from the stupid enviro rules.
knowing “government” as pretty much all of us do, exemptions are not likely to remain, since there will be no option to not bend the knee and bow the neck to those busybodies in DC who demand compliance to their brand of tyranny.
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