Posted on 02/01/2023 12:55:53 PM PST by Red Badger
The Department of Energy is proposing new energy conservation standards for new household gas and electric cooking devices, some of which have never been subject to federal efficiency standards.
DOE's proposed rule-making, published Wednesday, follows the recent political frenzy over the fate of gas stoves that was ignited after a federal regulator at the Consumer Product Safety Commission said his agency could ban them to reduce indoor air pollution.
The proposed rule-making would set new efficiency standards for both electric and gas cooking tops, preventing them from exceeding set levels of energy use per year.
The metrics used would not attempt to limit stove usage when they are installed and in use, a department spokesperson emphasized.
“Instead, the metric will ensure cooktops are produced to meet a certain level of energy efficiency if the proposed rule is finalized,” the person said.
It would also impose regulations on electric ovens for the first time, providing that they may not utilize a linear power supply, or one that produces unregulated as well as regulated power.
Gas ovens would be subjected to the same prohibition.
Energy savings from the rule would improve the security and reliability of the nation's energy system, DOE's rulemaking said, estimating that the standards could enable energy savings of 3.4% relative to a scenario without the standards.
It also estimated manufacturers would incur total conversion costs of $183.4 million to comply with the standards.
The Trump administration elected not to advance new conservation rules for these appliance categories after concluding new standards would not be economically justified and would not result in a significant conservation of energy.
The Biden administration has introduced more than 100 energy efficiency rules, arguing that they save consumers money and blunt climate change by reducing demand for energy, thereby reducing combustion of fossil fuels.
A number of Democratic-led municipalities have implemented restrictions or bans on gas appliances in new construction in a bid to reduce air pollution and slow climate change, and some states are pursuing similar regulations.
Nothing worse than a busy body gaining power
Stoves never really wear out.
Thus there will be a market for ‘used’ appliances like never before.
They can be rebuilt...................
They are changing the narrative. The original ‘controversy’ was the claim that gas stoves emitted asthma causing gases, which was shown in an earlier government publication to be completely negligible, not efficiency.
Yep!......................
More idiocy. The smell of natural gas is intentional. It is fragranced on purpose so that the user will know if there is a leak or if he/she left the stove on.
But the good news is it doesn't take that long to bake a cricket.
True, so it won’t take long unless it’s cloudy............
The efficency numbers will be impossible to hit without incredible/unworkable and expensive technology, thus producing the commie desired result.
Eventually somebody will come up with a final solution to the left’s demands.
Darn you! You made me spit my coffee onto my screen. :)
“preventing them from exceeding set levels of energy use per year.”
“The metrics used would not attempt to limit stove usage when they are installed and in use, a department spokesperson emphasized”
Those two statements cannot both be true at the same time.
Period.
If your going to limit energy usage to “set levels” you’ll have to have a cut off or restriction of some sort.
Period.
Put flame under pot, flame heats pot, pot heats contents. That’s pretty F’in simple.
Please tell me, oh wise and powerful bureaucrat, how you’re going to make this process of DIRECT impingement heat transfer more “efficient”.
Change the laws of thermodynamics?
Dear lord, I hate these people more than I can legally express.
I triple guaranteed you that NO restaurant will cook with electric
BINGO!
And it doesn’t matter what law congress passed. The constitution is a limited powers document. They weren’t given regulatory powers, no matter what they claim. That’s not what the ‘commerce clause’ was about. It’s unconstitutional.
A good gas stove will function literally to the end of human civilization with little to no maintenance.
People will just never give up their stoves, and the black market will flourish.
Anyone remember when we had people convicted of felonies, and sentenced to prison, for the “crime” of selling a shower head that released too much water?
Where, exactly, did the Federal government get this authority? And when did violations of these sorts of regulations become criminal, instead of civil, offenses?
Their only real play is to make gas and propane so expensive that no one can afford it.
That’s the real plan.
Sons’sa biwitches. They’re bound and determined.
“Propses”
As in FORCE.
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