Posted on 06/08/2023 10:50:07 AM PDT by bitt
Now the Biden regime is willing to let you freeze to death to continue their radical “climate change” agenda.
The Regime will soon finalize new regulations severely restricting what furnaces you can buy for your home in the future and make new purchases more expensive. The rules were originally proposed back in June 2022 by the Department of Energy (DOE).
Here are the full details of the regulations courtesy of Fox News, which first broke the story. The rules could finalized at any point over the next several weeks.
Under the proposed regulations, DOE would require furnaces to achieve an annual fuel utilization efficiency (AFUE) of 95% by 2029, meaning manufacturers would only be allowed to sell furnaces that convert at least 95% of fuel into heat within six years. The current market standard AFUE for a residential furnace is 80%.
The network explains this would take non-condensing gas furnaces off the market due to AFUE requirements. Consumers who replace their non-condensing furnaces with a condensing one would face potentially cost-prohibitive installation costs.
Richard Meyer, the vice president of energy markets, analysis and standards at the American Gas Association (AGA), called the rule “concerning.”
There are some really technical reasons why this is such a concerning rule. It has to do with the ability for consumers to be in compliance with this new efficiency standard.
They’re going to have to, in many cases, install new equipment to exhaust gas out of their home. These higher efficiency units, or so-called condensing units — a lot of consumers have them in their home, but a lot of consumers don’t. So, this rule would require additional retrofits for a lot of consumers. And those retrofits can be extremely cost prohibitive.
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Rural Oklahoma. Propane and wood stove.
Exactly
Ain’t no better place to live and die than Dixie!
I actually have a gasoline Coleman stove.
Good for them. They should ban breathing too.
A house I used to own — I did have to replace the gas furnace. I wanted to upgrade to a 90% or better furnace, but at least two HVAC guys told me I couldn’t unless I wanted to shell out a ton of money.
The house had a metal flue and a wood frame. The HVAC guys told me that a 90% or better furnace burns too hot, and I would need to put in a PVC flue, which would have been very expensive.
I put in an 80% furnace.
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