This is Senile Biden and the completely fucked up leftists.
First they want to ban gas stoves (and are doing so in some states)
Now they are coming for your air conditioners
Biden admin cracks down on air conditioners as war on appliances continues
The Biden administration announced its latest home appliance regulations this week, targeting air conditioners in an action it said would reduce the nation's carbon emissions.
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Critics have blasted the rules as federal overreach and unnecessary given that the industry has improved technology without government intervention.
"What these mandates, what these standards do is enforce a level of efficiency that doesn't make sense," Ben Lieberman, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told Fox News Digital in an interview last week. "And they compromise product quality. We've already seen this to an extent with cost of clothes washer standards."
"That's another problem — this is a regulatory program that's very long in the tooth and you're getting to the point where clothes washers — this might be the fifth time they've been regulated," he continued. "So we're really chasing after diminishing or nonexistent marginal returns."
A former senior DOE official previously told Fox News Digital that the Biden administration's actions would inevitably result in higher costs for consumers.
"Their philosophy is energy efficiency at all costs or energy efficiency no matter the cost," the official said. "That means we are going to see, as a result of their efficiency standards, higher-priced appliances. It's that simple.
"The reality is that we are not talking about saving huge amounts of energy from these new regulations."
And the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM), the leading U.S. trade group representing appliance makers and suppliers, has warned that the actions would particularly harm low-income households and decrease overall product quality.
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bid...ces-continues?
- berryberry
- 03-24-2023, 11:20 PM