Posted on 08/25/2023 11:14:28 AM PDT by lowbridge
Ceiling fans are now the latest target in the Biden administration’s green agenda, sparking pushback from Republicans and manufacturers.
The Department of Energy is proposing a rule that would require ceiling fans to be more energy efficient, arguing the move would save U.S. households on energy costs.
According to the Energy Department’s analysis, the new rules would save households about $39 over the lifespan of the new energy-efficient fan.
However, the cost to manufacturers associated with the increased equipment will total $86.6 million per year, the department said.
Republicans on the House Committee on Small Business say if the rule goes into effect it could put small manufacturers out of business, given the costs the companies would incur in order to comply with the changes.
“This rule would require numerous small business fan manufacturers to redesign their products and may put between 10 and 30 percent of small business ceiling fan manufacturers out of business,” the GOP members of the committee wrote in a letter to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on Thursday. “It appears that the Department of Energy (DOE) may not have properly considered small entities during this rulemaking process.”
The Energy Department has been on the warpath to impose more stringent regulations on household appliances for the past several months, proposing new standards for gas stoves, ovens, washing machines, refrigerators, air conditioners, dishwashers, and other essentials as part of its mission to advance energy efficiency and conservation.
On his first day in office in January 2021, President Biden signed an executive order requiring the Energy Department to make “major revisions” to current appliance regulation standards and standards set by the Trump administration.
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The SOB lives in the White House and doesn’t pay a dime. All the sick bass turd can think of is taking away America’s ceiling fans. Who the hell does he think he is? A fascist version of Adolf Hitler?
After paying the college tuition for hundreds of thousands of college deadbeats, I think I can afford 37 bucks for electricity for my ceiling fan. FJB.
Had to show that one to my wife. She loved it too.
Don’t forget to turn on the lights. You don’t want to risk stubbing your toe in the dark. :-)
Precious!
I wish there was a “like button” for comments like yours.
Yeah. You’ll save $39 over the life of the fan, but the fan will cost $50 more than the previous, less efficient, model.
“The left won’t be happy until we are living in thatched roof huts and freezing and starving to death.”
Actually, no. The Left lives to induce change. Whatever the normal state of affairs is now, it MUST change. When the current state of affairs is X they will go full tilt to change it all to Y. When everything changes to Y, they will force everyone to change it to Z. The Left told us all they wanted was for two people who love each other to have the right to marry. The rest of us said, “Fine. Whatever.” Within hours we not only had to accept they were married, but we also had to celebrate their marriage. People no longer had the right to turn down business if that business was related to a gay marriage. Way back before gay marriage was a thing, I had lunch with an attorney friend. He said, “It isn’t about gay marriage. It’s about normalizing pedophilia.” I was shocked, but he made a good case for it. Here we are probably twenty years later, and legalizing pedophilia is being actively discussed. The thing is, even if everyone celebrated everything the Left wanted, even if everyone turned over their children to pedophiles, they’d next want human sacrifice or something equally crazy. Because there will never be enough of anything they want to satisfy them. They are mentally ill. (By the way, Metmom, this rant is not aimed at you. You’re just in the blast radius. Sorry.)
FJB
Or they have to be powered by Gilligan’s bicycle.
“the new rules would save households about $39 over the lifespan of the new energy-efficient fan.”
LOL. These critters have cost some more than that on just a weekly truck fill-up.
I understand and you are exactly right.
However, I do disagree about the mentally ill part.
They are evil. Demonically fueled evil.
And they will not stop until they destroy humanity and maybe not even then.
They are vicious swine who delight in ruling over others. They want to manage and restrict everything, but none of it applies to “them.”
Cute A+
Great now what we have to hire illegals at $15.00 an hour to fan us?.
The only way to make an AC motor in a ceiling fan use less electricity is to have it move less air.
Thank you Biden for doing to our ceiling fans what you’ve done to our shower heads.
Central heating and windows will be next.
I bought rural high desert Nevada property 18 years ago.
I HAVE NO AC-—NEVER DID in 2 other homes I occupied.
I had 6 ceiling fans installed in first month here...not even summer.
They run 24/7 all summer.
My power bills have run in the $80 area for 18 years—even when I was pumping water from my own well for 6 horses.
Biden can COME here personally & TRY TO TAKE MY FANS.
HE will not make it any further.
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