New fedgov restrictions coming on window air conditioners and air cleaners

[Anti Federalist]

So, add air conditioners that don't cool to the list of items that no longer work properly, thanks to government $#@!ery.

They always prattle on about how much will be "saved" by all these green goodies.

The reality is when you have to do everything two or three times more, just to get proper functionality, any savings goes right out the window.



Biden Administration Unveils New Restrictions On Air Conditioners Despite Backlash Over Gas Stove Restrictions

https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden...e-restrictions

By Ben Zeisloft

Mar 24, 2023 DailyWire.com


US President Joe Biden speaks during a visit at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) headquarters to congratulate the Agency and staff on the 75th anniversary of its founding in Langley, Virginia, on July 8, 2022.
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Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm unveiled new climate and efficiency restrictions on air conditioners despite widespread criticism the Biden administration received after officials recently announced restrictions on gas stoves.

The new energy efficiency standards, which will apply to room air conditioners and portable air cleaners, will enter into effect next year. The Energy Department contended that the new rules will assist with “tackling the climate crisis,” as well as save consumers $25 billion over the next three decades. Room air conditioners are more commonly called window air conditioners.

“Today’s announcement builds on the historic actions President Biden took last year to strengthen outdated energy efficiency standards, which will help save on people’s energy bills and reduce our nation’s carbon footprint,” Granholm said in a press release. She added that the Energy Department will “continue to engage with our public and private sector partners to finalize additional proposals like today’s that lower household energy costs and deliver the safer, healthier communities that every American deserves.”

The rules are the first federal standards for portable air cleaners. The Energy Department asserted that the regulations mark a consensus among “manufacturers, the manufacturing trade association, efficiency advocates, consumer advocacy groups, states, and utilities.”

The policies come weeks after multiple senior officials in the Biden administration repeatedly backtracked on new energy efficiency standards for gas stoves amid mounting criticism. Controversy over the potential regulations emerged earlier this year when Consumer Product Safety Commission Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. said in an interview that gas stoves are a “hidden hazard” and declared that “any option is on the table” for a nationwide ban. Consumer Product Safety Commission Chairman Alex Hoehn-Saric later posted a statement asserting that neither he nor the agency planned to outlaw gas stoves.

The Energy Department then unveiled forthcoming efficiency standards which would impact approximately “half of the total gas cooking top market.” Proposed regulations would introduce a new “maximum integrated annual energy consumption” standard for gas stoves, marking a change from previous regulations that prohibited constant burning pilot lights in gas stoves, but placed no limits on energy consumption. Officials noted that “products achieving these standard levels are already commercially available for all product classes covered by this proposal” and cited “important and robust” climate benefits in documents justifying the new rules.

Some 38% of households in the United States use gas stoves for cooking, with the figure approaching 70% for states such as California and New Jersey, according to data from the Energy Information Administration. Those who use gas stoves often cite the easier temperature control offered by the appliances relative to electric alternatives.

Granholm defended the consideration of new efficiency standards for gas stoves during remarks this week before the House Appropriations Committee. “This does not impact the majority, and it certainly does not say that anybody who has a gas stove would have their gas stove taken away,” she told lawmakers. “There’s no ban on gas stoves. I have a gas stove. It is just about making the existing electric and gas stoves, and all the other appliances, more efficient.”

[tod evans]

Good grief!

For ever little "energy" sticker placed on appliances the function decreases and the lifespan dwindles.

Window rattlers are for poor people.

Wonder why their legislation doesn't restrict the size and performance of whole house and commercial units? (not really I know why)

[oyarde]

$#@! these retards

[Anti Globalist]

They can take my air conditioners and air cleaners from my cold dead hands.

[Snowball]

I have four. 2 of them are still working from the 90's.

"vintage".

[ClaytonB]

Good grief!

For ever little "energy" sticker placed on appliances the function decreases and the lifespan dwindles.

Window rattlers are for poor people.

Wonder why their legislation doesn't restrict the size and performance of whole house and commercial units? (not really I know why)

Nailed it!

Here is the universal-decoder-ring that unlocks the Fed/globalist agenda for product regulations and restrictions: Imagine the poor as though they are living in an open-air prison presided over by the Federales as their grand Warden. When the Warden wants to "reduce consumption" in order to "battle inflation", he orders the prison requisitions staff to reduce unit capacities, cut power allotments, and so on, and so forth. No, we are not living in an open-air prison but they think we are. That's the institutionalized mindset of the typical DC regulatory czar, warming a seat with their ass in some faceless DC Federal agency office. They view themselves as lab-rats, and they view us as cockroaches. But who cares what such worthless people think? Why does anybody even pay attention to them? That's the real question...

[Pauls' Revere]

@Anti Federalist
New fedgov restrictions coming on window air conditioners and air cleaners

So, add air conditioners that don't cool to the list of items that no longer work properly, thanks to government $#@!ery.

They always prattle on about how much will be "saved" by all these green goodies.

The reality is when you have to do everything two or three times more, just to get proper functionality, any savings goes right out the window.





Seriously...that is probably the whole point. So you don't want to bother with it at all.

[acptulsa]

Rebuilding old ones may be the next growth industry.

[Anti Federalist]

Seriously...that is probably the whole point. So you don't want to bother with it at all.

Without a doubt.

To make you give up in frustration from using these products.

[Anti Federalist]

Rebuilding old ones may be the next growth industry.

More and more, though mandates and wokeness, small refrigeration units are using refrigerants that are highly flammable.

"Green" refrigerants like R600 and R290 are basically nothing but butane compounds and are highly explosive.

So yeah, I can see that being a viable service that people would want as well.

I do everything I can to keep my 20 year old widow rattlers running, because the new ones don't cool for $#@!.