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The most demented Presidency in history just keeps on coming after the American people and the economy.
Ratcheting up regulations by Biden has already cost us something along the lines of $1,000 billion and growing.
The Biden administration’s new “energy-efficiency standards” for refrigerators and washing machines have sparked concern among industry experts who say the rules could end up costing manufacturers and consumers more at a time when energy costs have soared.
The Department of Energy (DOE) last month proposed new efficiency standards for washing machines, claiming that they would “lower household energy costs” while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and helping to combat the “climate crisis.”
Under the proposed rules (pdf), which would take effect in 2027, washing machines and refrigerators would be required to meet a more stringent set of energy efficiency standards and use considerably less water.
The department would also prevent manufacturers from “undercutting those playing by the rules” by providing “inferior-quality products.”
The new rules are expected to save consumers more than $60 billion over three decades, the DOE estimates, while noting that a majority of products achieving these standards are already commercially available.
However, industry experts and manufacturers have raised concerns over the new standards, claiming that they could reduce the cleaning performance of washers and increase costs for manufacturers and consumers.
“When you’re squeezing all you can out of efficiency in terms of electricity use and water … you by definition either make the appliance worse or slower,” Travis Fisher, a senior research fellow at Heritage Foundation’s Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment, told the Washington Free Beacon. “Why are we so focused on the energy output, as opposed to if it’s helping me wash my clothes?
“That standard has kind of gone off the rails,” Fisher said.
“They keep tightening the standards, and I’m not sure their reasoning makes sense anymore.”
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Ratcheting up regulations by Biden has already cost us something along the lines of $1,000 billion and growing.
The Biden administration’s new “energy-efficiency standards” for refrigerators and washing machines have sparked concern among industry experts who say the rules could end up costing manufacturers and consumers more at a time when energy costs have soared.
The Department of Energy (DOE) last month proposed new efficiency standards for washing machines, claiming that they would “lower household energy costs” while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and helping to combat the “climate crisis.”
Under the proposed rules (pdf), which would take effect in 2027, washing machines and refrigerators would be required to meet a more stringent set of energy efficiency standards and use considerably less water.
The department would also prevent manufacturers from “undercutting those playing by the rules” by providing “inferior-quality products.”
The new rules are expected to save consumers more than $60 billion over three decades, the DOE estimates, while noting that a majority of products achieving these standards are already commercially available.
However, industry experts and manufacturers have raised concerns over the new standards, claiming that they could reduce the cleaning performance of washers and increase costs for manufacturers and consumers.
“When you’re squeezing all you can out of efficiency in terms of electricity use and water … you by definition either make the appliance worse or slower,” Travis Fisher, a senior research fellow at Heritage Foundation’s Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment, told the Washington Free Beacon. “Why are we so focused on the energy output, as opposed to if it’s helping me wash my clothes?
“That standard has kind of gone off the rails,” Fisher said.
“They keep tightening the standards, and I’m not sure their reasoning makes sense anymore.”
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Biden’s Green Energy Clampdown on Washing Machines, Refrigerators Sparks Concern
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