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The Department of Energy (DOE) finalized or proposed a bevy of regulatory actions cracking down on numerous appliances on Friday.
The DOE proposed new rules designed to promote “energy efficient” commercial fans and blowers, and also finalized energy efficiency standards for refrigerators and freezers, the agency announced Friday. The regulatory actions are the latest in a string of moves by the Biden administration intended to phase out a host of fossil fuel-powered appliances and replace them on the market with more energy efficient, and often electric, equivalents.
“Today’s announcement is a testament to the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to lowering utility costs for working families, which is helping to simultaneously strengthen energy independence and combat the climate crisis,” Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm said of her agency’s actions. “DOE will continue to move quickly in 2024—together with our industry partners and stakeholders—to update and strengthen outdated energy efficiency standards, which is critical to innovation, more consumer options, and healthier communities.” (RELATED: Biden Admin’s Latest Spending Spree Amounts To A Backdoor Ban On Gas-Powered Appliances, Experts Say)
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“We’ve seen them go after gas stoves…how many more home appliances will Americans eventually have to replace?” pic.twitter.com/JgjQyiPGK0
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 24, 2023
Compliance with the finalized fridge and freezer standards will be required starting in either 2029 or 2030, depending on the model and configuration of the equipment, according to the agency. The DOE projects that the rule will cut carbon dioxide emissions by more than 100 million tons.
The proposed set of regulations are modeled on those already in place in California, according to the DOE. The regulations are expected to kick in starting in 2029 and are projected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 300 million tons.
The Biden administration, led primarily by the DOE, has promulgated numerous regulatory actions that are designed to reduce the use of fossil fuel-powered appliances that tend to be cheaper up front than their more “energy efficient” counterparts. Other appliances the administration has sought to regulate include water heaters, gas-powered portable generators, furnaces and pool pump motors.
Numerous energy policy experts have asserted that the Biden administration’s regulatory blitz on appliances is likely to limit consumer choice and impose higher up-front costs for the sake of fighting climate change. The DOE, on the other hand, estimates that the full suite of energy efficiency regulations will provide approximately $1 trillion in consumer savings over the next 30 years.
The DOE did not respond immediately to a request for comment.
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There’s more to this than CC. Guess who makes most of our appliances now?
I’m gonna guess, CC.
I sell appliances. The GE line (Hotpoint, GE, Profile and Cafe) are made by Haier which is a Chinese company but some models are made in Kentucky and some others in Mexico. Frigidaire, which is owned by Electrolux, is made in Mexico. The Whirlpool line (Amana, Whirlpool, Maytag and KitchenAid) are all made in the U.S.
We used to have an appliance guy radio show in Detroit giving advice on buying and fixing appliances. We bought only Whirlpool and Frigidaire BECAUSE they were made in USA and were more reliable.
Our friend sell very expensive high end appliances from their large store and they break much more often than the cheap US appliances we buy.
It is also self preservation.
as “the gov” said in blazing saddles – we gotta protect our phony baloney jobs!”
what is it called when government controls production?
is it fascism?
When the global measurements of atmospheric Carbon Dioxide continue to fail to reverse themselves, what will the excuses of those who write “green” regulations be? Because that is exactly what has happened during the last 40 years of regulating CO2 emissions.
At some point, failed initiatives that accomplish nothing other than producing unreliable imported Chinese junk for landfills must stop. I’m still using some American appliances produced in the late 1940’s that I inherited from my grandmother. They can all be repaired and they all still work just fine.
Repairing appliances depends on what’s wrong. Is it simple fan motor or is it an expensive control board? Is it a compressor or just a switch? LG refrigerators will give you a free compressor if it is under their extended parts warranty but the labor to put it in is anywhere from $400-$600. It is always cost of repair vs cost of new. Dumb people continue to waste money on repairing old appliances which will need to be replaced anyways. And if you are talking about refrigerators, when they go out you will lose all the food inside. I deal with a lot of penny wise but dollar foolish people.
This will be the most ignored regulation in years . I know no Californian making plans to buy new appliances . These current clowns in Washington will soon be replaced by the next set of inept panders who will likely change everything. I certainly am not concerned with this regulation
“Reduce CO2 emissions by more than 300 million tons.” How many ounces would that be? And how many hundreds of years will that take? The DOE should be required to show its mathematical calculations to arrive at such a ridiculous number!!
Only if you understand their computer model..
I suspect I have seen better models on catwalks vs the DOE version.
(DOE = Do Over Everyone)
A British ton, a Metric ton or an American ton? In any event, 300 million tons is only about 0.8% of what humans emit every year. So the end result is a nothing burger.
These government agencies cannot break their habit of multiplying tiny incremental improvements by millions of units over decades of product life to come up with what sounds like a big impact. In reality the impact will be unmeasurable and certainly not noticeable to the consumers.
They also don’t understand that manufacturers put a lot of R&D effort into making their products as efficient as possible in a cost effective way and without sacrificing functionality. The government regulators have no concern about these facts when they issue their diktats.
I’m not aware of any “fossil fuel powered pool pump motors”, so they must be thinking of traditional electric models. They are forecasting out thirty years down the road monthly kWh prices and the manner in how that electricity is generated over those thirty years. Do they know on a month by month basis over one and a half generations the percentage of power generated by nuclear, wind, geo-thermal, solar, hydro, yet-to-be-discovered-and-deployed energy sources? Have they locked down the fuel costs on a utility distributor basis for each billable month for thirty years?
This is pretending that the former United States doesn’t melt down into a post apocalypse civil war, that the banking system is anything recognizable, that we are even permitted to have luxuries such as a swimming pool, that there is even reliable non-rationed energy available at the consumer level.
They pretend to know the number of appliances that will be in use in a country that has seen ten million people flood the country in the past couple years, and the consumers and their insatiable desires are only increasing.
This also assumes that they don’t throw in additional and contradictory goals resulting in increases in energy required to perform the same task due to plumbing, noise and materials regulations. (they may ban or heavily ration REMs needed for the high efficiency motors)
And the next administration can just reverse this tyrannical power-grab just as easily as the sadistic demands are being created now.
Note that the article, if I didn’t miss it, does not specify the time period for that 300 million tonne reduction. It is not yearly !! The yearly “savings” will be tiny, especially with compared to the total emissions.
I’d like to know exactly how much that would lower Global temperatures
“…how many more home appliances will Americans eventually have to replace?” Let’s just replace the Biden Administration and the whole menagerie of alphabet dysfunctional nonsense that goes with it. And fix the economy while we’re at it. And give Mexico an ultimatum about….we have a lot of work to do!
The new Argentine president is showing the way by deleting 50% of that countries federal departments.
Just make the law deleting the department also repeal every regulation and lawfare agreement enacted under that department.
EPA, DOE (energy) DOE (education), etc.
He’s off to a good start, Drake. He also just withdrew Argentina from joining BRICS. He doesn’t believe in CAGW and Net Zero. What’s not to like?
Yes, the ‘new’ appliances will be more energy effecient. But like everything else government does, the actual result will be less effecient. They cut off the preheating of water in dishwashers. Except now you have to run the water to get the hot water to the unit. Their justifications make no scientific or practical sense. It is all to further the ‘green new deal’ hoax.
Energy Efficient is a relative term. If you have to wash your clothes twice to get them clean and dry them 2X longer to get them dry, where is the efficiency?
It’s in their tiny minds. And no where else.
Exactly, we all flush twice since they regulated toilets.
Rediculous- there is and has been plenty of incentive to produce efficient yet still effective appliances with out any unnecessary intervention. More perversion of the economy and waste of perfectly good “oldies but goodies”. Oh ! STORY TIP a cargo ship continues to burn off the coast of Alaska. Take a guess what it is carrying?
I’ll bet it’s carrying something “rediculous”. (insert eyeroll here).
Yep we saw it, commented on it.
Oh 🤤
This will save $1trillion at a cost of only $12trillion. (I made that up too)
Glad I’m old enough to not experience what is coming. But fretting for my Grand kids future.
“Lowering utility costs for working families” – easy. Supply them with smart meters for free, and switch them after sunset.
In my bathroom I have new a mandated water saving toilet bowl. I have to flush twice instead of once. Long live California Democrats. And my water bill went up.
Here in Germany they realised, that water saving isn’t a good idea, as the main spouts congests and a lot of fresh water is necessary to flush them.
Miss “edit” function…..
In our corner the flushed several hours .for more than 2 werks. What water saving…..
Ok, not on my bill, but my taxes….
Water saving tip…
If its yellow.. let it mellow,
If its brown, flush it down !
I’m reading more and more articles about how the Biden administration really threatened all the the manufacturers not just in US but around the world, automotive, appliance housing- even Toyota was bullied and started to cave against their better judgement. Now it’s all starting to unravel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_my_cold,_dead_hands
I can’t remember a New Year’s Eve in my lifetime( mid sixties) where I was more uncertain about our future as a nation, not even close.
The DOE, on the other hand, estimates that the full suite of energy efficiency regulations will provide approximately $1 trillion in consumer
savingslootings over the next 30 years.There, I fixed it.
We need to squeeze the peasants harder! No more luxuries!
The US will become a second CUBA. Make do with the old. Repair it. There will also be a thriving black market in forbidden items. One can always work around stupid rules and regulations.
You got that right – if this nonsense isn’t stopped, I can see a future where used (and nicely rebuilt) appliances will sell for more than the crappy new gov’t regulation choked garbage. Items that used to end up in landfills will instead get repaired and reconditioned and then sold. This will also happen with cars as well. EVs will rot on dealer lots while people will line up to buy restored older cars and trucks.
Well they would do that now wouldn’t they?
The [NERC] assessment highlights the fact that the nation is clearly in a “transition” period for its energy sources. However, this transition poses significant threats to grid security, as renewable sources such as wind and solar often fail to prevent electricity shortfalls during inclement weather or peak demand. The assessment recommended the continued inclusion of thermal fuels in order to deliver the necessary supply of electricity under energy-constrained conditions. It should also be noted that electricity peak demand and energy growth forecasts over the 10-year assessment period are higher than at any point in the past decade, which is primarily attributed to electrification and projections for growth in electric vehicles.
NERC 2023 Long-Term Reliability Assessment Summary | National Propane Gas Association | Delivering Value Through Advocacy (npga.org)
Unfortunately ( sarc) the bottom is falling out of the EV market. I was hoping they would continue sell well enough to start to collapse the grid . Because catastrophic failure is the only thing that gets through to some people.
But they are liberals. If their plans fail it is ALWAYS because there was not enough other peoples money spent on it and the wrong people running it.
So more money and more liberals running the show!
Story Tip
Day 364, 2023, NSIDC Arctic sea ice extent is 13.12 x 10⁶ km²
According to my records, this puts it above every year back to, and including, 2004
Their commitment is to promote governmental interference in our lives based on their pernicious climate crisis scam they promote.
If they provided “approximately $1 trillion in consumer savings” then they wouldn’t need to be mandated – people would be flocking to them.
Precisely! Took the words right out of my mouth…
One day, when they wake (woke) up and realise that the modelling studies suggest CO2 → T, whereas the observations suggest T → CO2 and Observations are spot on.
They will then have to find another way of controlling and extorting us.
A 30 year forecast with one (One!) significant digit. The DOE must have spent about one minute coming up with that number — and most of that minute was spent looking for their crayons.
“fossil fuel-powered appliances and replace them on the market with more energy efficient, and often electric, equivalents”
What BS word salad. All the appliances I sell are run by electricity. None are run by fossil fuels. The electricity may come from fossil fuels but so does the electricity that runs EVs.
I will correct myself. Yes, gas dryers and gas stoves run on fossil fuels. I just don’t sell them so I neglected to consider them in my answer. Sorry.
Salute!
Yeah, Tom, however you still need electricity for the dryer motor unless you are running a emergency ICE generator. My gas furnace needs volts for the fan. My gas oven needs volts because you cannot light it with a BBQ doofer. OTOH, my water heater and the range top burners on the stove work great after a hurricane and maybe no power for a week. So we have gumbo and soups and steaks from the freezer before they defrost.
The greenie folks simply do not understand how things work and all the infrastructure we have built for a hundred + years for both electricy and transportation and home heating using natural gas or propane.
The part I wanna see is them making a fire to stay warm or cook.
Gums from NW Florida sends…
And who gave unelected bureaucrats authority to make law (“regulations”)? In the U.S. constitution, lawmaking power is exclusively given to the elected representatives of the citizens. That’s Congress; the House and Senate. They are accountable to their constituents and can be fired at the next election. The President and the executive agencies under his control are only granted power to execute and enforce the laws that Congress enacts, not create laws. That’s how a healthy democratic republic is supposed to work and that’s what the Constitution mandates.
The bureaucracy has assumed legislative power over time because many legislators are lazy and spineless. They like delegating the hard work and accountability of considering thousands of proposals like these to pencil-pushers who are insulated from the electorate. What we have is no longer a democratic republic constrained by the Constitution, but a facade that’s really a police state behind the window dressing where unelected bureaucrats dictate the law. These illegal regulations can be challenged on constitutional grounds and we have a 6-3 balance in the Supreme Court for the first time in nearly a century that would likely strike the regulations down.
Meanwhile Congress pretends to busy itself with more important work: passing ludicrous, unsustainable spending bills with lavish handouts to appease and buy the votes of one constituency or another; projects that the citizens are expected to pay for; which actually falls on their children and grandchildren. It’s so much easier to spend other people’s money.
We desperately need a Javier Milei in the U.S. to put the people back in charge of our destiny. We actually need dozens like him with a majority in Congress to rescind a century of laws and regulations that allowed the disastrous state we’re in to happen.