5 insane Biden-Harris appliance regulations heading your way

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5 insane Biden-Harris appliance regulations heading your way
Furnaces, air conditioners and even light bulbs are all being attacked by Biden-Harris administration

 By Ben Lieberman Fox News
3 min read| Published September 20, 2024 5:00am EDT

It took an angry public reaction against proposed federal restrictions on gas stoves to get the Biden-Harris administration regulators to reconsider. But that was last year, and in the meantime, Washington bureaucrats have quietly continued their meddling over many other home appliances, with potentially negative consequences for consumers in the years ahead.

1.  Furnaces – A new Department of Energy (DOE) efficiency regulation will effectively prohibit new non-condensing gas furnaces by 2028. Owners of many older residences rely on these non-condensing models, and those in need of a new one would usually be best off with a straightforward replacement rather than face potentially costly installation challenges from switching to a condensing gas furnace with very different venting requirements. Even the agency admits to an $867 price increase for more difficult installations, but others think this a lowball estimate given all that the changeover from a non-condensing to a condensing unit can entail. 

2. Water Heaters – Anyone interested in a new electric water heater might want to buy one before 2029, when another DOE efficiency standard will raise prices by an agency-estimated $953. As with the furnace rule, DOE claims homeowners will earn back the higher up-front cost of these newfangled water heaters in the form of energy savings. In reality, the rule will probably be a net money-loser for many homeowners, especially if the installation costs turn out to be higher than the agency’s often-rosy estimates.   

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[Smokin Joe]

Lovely. The moving target standards are on the move again.
Predictably, this will cost the homeowner money, and likely not work as well.
if the last standard was 'clean enough' for then, why not now?
Because it's never enough.
This Environmental regulation gimmick is like IT.

They keep changing it, moving goalposts to keep their jobs and to keep everyone else off balance.

Not an environment for business to thrive, really (except the environmental regulation business). Small businesses can't afford to hire people just to keep track of an unstable regulatory landscape, which makes compliance harder, which favors the giants and leaves entrepreneurship buried under yet another regulatory update. Costs cannot be anticipated when every rule is in flux.

At least IT solves a few problems while creating new ones.

But the bottom line is: Do these changes make material and significant contributions to some goal which can be measured (except in dollars spent)?

I think we all know the answer to that. Keep in mind, this is all over the Hoax of the century: the idea that any of this will have a measurable effect on the climate.

[libertybele]

The DOE is a regulatory 'agency' that needs to be abolished. They do more harm than good.

[Fishrrman]

3. Central Air Conditioners — DOE isn’t the only federal agency inflicting pain on homeowners. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a rule requiring that all new central air conditioners manufactured after Jan. 1, 2025, must use new agency-approved refrigerants deemed sufficiently climate-friendly.

4. Dishwashers — It is not that DOE’s latest dishwasher regulation will make things significantly worse when it takes effect in 2027, it is that dishwashers have already been badly overregulated.

5.  Light bulbs — The standard incandescent light bulb is well on its way to oblivion, thanks to past DOE efficiency regulations they cannot meet. But now, the more efficient light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs that have emerged as their main replacement are the target of an ultra-stringent new DOE rule. When it takes effect in 2028, the rule will knock most currently available LEDs off the market and boost the average price of the remaining ones from $2.98 to an estimated $5.68, an increase of $2.70 per bulb. Light quality may also be impacted.

[Kamaji]

The next republican president has to comprehensively cut back on these regulations, using the same notice and hearing procedure called for under the APA to get rid of them.