Posted on 08/27/2023 9:06:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
If I were a climate change fanatic, I wouldn’t stop at anything to cut carbon. This explains a lot about the Department of Energy’s proposed rules on energy efficiency for ceiling fans.
Yes, ceiling fans. The DOE announced the exciting news this past week that consumers would save between $28 and $39 over the life of a ceiling fan on energy costs.
Meanwhile, Republicans on the Small Business Committee are questioning the wisdom of rules that will save consumers pennies a year but very well might cost thousands of jobs as some small ceiling fan manufacturers are likely to go out of business. They sent a letter to Jennifer Granholm inquiring about the new regulations.
“It is important for agencies to examine small businesses interests—which make up 99.9 percent of all businesses in the United States—when passing any new rule. America’s small businesses deserve to have their voices heard and considered,” the lawmakers wrote.
The lawmakers argued that the rule would require numerous small business fan manufacturers to redesign their products, potentially putting 10%-30% of these businesses out of business.
The letter lists out a series of questions to the DOE, requesting information on additional costs to businesses complying with the rule, alternative solutions to the proposed policy, impact calculations, and whether or not certain businesses will go out of business because of the rule.
The DOE’s rule, which was proposed in June but whose public comment period ended on Monday, would require ceiling fans to be more energy efficient, reasoning that the move could save households anywhere between $28 to $39 over the lifespan of a new fan. However, the estimated increased equipment costs are expected to be $86.6 million per year.
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There’s nothing “convenient” about trading a few cents savings per year per ceiling fan for the loss of thousands of jobs. That’s a “crucial fact” that the dullards at DOE “conveniently failed to mention.”
The DOE has proposed new standards for gas stoves, ovens, washing machines, refrigerators, air conditioners, dishwashers, and other household appliances in recent months in a maniacal effort to cut a few cents from our electric bills. Even combined, the savings amount to far less than other actions the government could take — like deregulating parts of the electric industry that are overburdened with rules. That action would save far more than the government’s single-minded desire to regulate every aspect of our lives.
Aren’t all these restrictions (gas stoves, backup generators, light bulbs....) perfect fodder for TV ads blasting the Dems?
Not to mention the takeovers of children’s education that parents resent increasingly.
Like “law and order” for the Nixon-Agnew campaign, the loss of simple freedoms in America should be in TV ads.
Yay! My new eco-friendly fan has the wind power of a dry fart but I'm saving $2/year on my utility bills!
Thanks Joe Biden!
Unelected DOE employees are able to put laws in place? Isn’t that the job of elected legislators?
Eat more beans.
/s
the new fans are real energy savers
you have to spin them by hand
save the erf!
Robinette’s on a roll. Cutting our alcohol consumption, regulating our ceiling fans, pushing fake vaccines again…
Somebody change his diaper, give him his pudding and put him to bed.
Unfortunately hes just a figurehead. Its the people telling him to say this that are the problem that won’t go away.
The US Department Of Controlling Every Aspect Of Our Lives
Legislation without representation.
Doesn’t that go against the Constitution’s separation of powers?
My bet, these fans won’t save anything. Like our 3’stage HVAC didn’t use any less power than our old 1 speed unit. I plotted 12 months of power use verses degree days on each unit and could not see any difference in electrical power used. The 3 stage HVAC system cost several thousand more than the single stage units available at the time but our no longer availabie or so I’ve been told. An HVAC tech told me they call these new multi-stage units “green speed”.
What are they going to force people to do to a ceiling fan to make it more efficient?
I have those fans with the ornate, carved wood blades and oil rubbed bronze casings. Can’t imagine they’re very efficient at all. Don’t care either. They push air. They work.
What ceiling fan manufacturer is behind this? With the stupid ban on traditional light bulbs, it was GE and Sylvania lobbying kongress b/c they couldn’t compete.
Absolutely. Several years ago, I was in an antique store, the retired crazed liberal owner was from Connecticut. He was talking to another customer and they both agreed “one President can’t do the job effectively, we need multiple Presidents, appointed by the elected President”.
And when his "Green is Keen" crap causes your electricity rates to skyrocket you'll save even more!! /s
That does it! I’m scrapping that old, inefficient, energy-wasting ceiling fan and installing a new central air conditioner! That’ll save lots!!!
I have ceiling fans I have had for over 18 years-—trouble free.
Save $39 over the life of the fan???
SAVE $2 a year???? REALLY ???
This is called “Picking the fly shit out of the pepper”.
Ceiling fans used to last 20 years or more. Now they want to add even more complex electronics to make them more efficient. Problem is that with complexity comes more failures.
Plan on replacing these new ones every year or two.
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