{"id":356935,"date":"2023-06-05T17:20:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T21:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/?p=356935"},"modified":"2023-06-05T06:22:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T10:22:12","slug":"bidens-green-rules-mean-appliances-will-soon-cost-more-and-do-less-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/2023\/06\/bidens-green-rules-mean-appliances-will-soon-cost-more-and-do-less-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s Green Rules Mean Appliances Will Soon Cost More And Do Less, Experts Say"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Kevin Stocklin, Activist Post<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

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A pledge by the Biden administration in December 2022 to take \u201cmore than 100 actions\u201d to impose significantly tighter environmental standards on consumer goods is now becoming reality<\/strong>, and consumer groups are predicting a future in which\u00a0Americans pay more for products that do less<\/strong>, while manufacturers warn of shortages and supply chain breakdowns.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re seeing, just in the last few months, new rules from the Biden administration about clothes washers, dishwashers, and other kinds of kitchen appliances, and in every case, you\u2019re talking about a tightening of already very, very tight standards,\u201d O.H. Skinner, executive director of the Alliance for Consumers, told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat will make it so that nearly the majority of the current products on the market don\u2019t meet the standards and have to be redesigned or removed from the market,\u201d Skinner said. \u201cEveryday things that people actually want are going to get more expensive or disappear<\/strong>, and the products that will be available will be more expensive but not better. People are going to wonder why life is worse.\u201d<\/p>\n

These new regulations (pdf<\/a>) from the Department of Energy (DOE) come on top of new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) emissions regulations on cars and electric utilities, and efforts to\u00a0ban gas stoves<\/a>, which critics say will have similar consequences in those industries. Many of these new regulations will be finalized by next year and would give manufacturers several years to comply.<\/p>\n

In December 2022, the White House announced that \u201cthe Biden-Harris Administration has\u00a0surpassed its goal<\/a>\u00a0to take 100 actions in 2022 to strengthen energy efficiency standards for a range of appliances and equipment to lower costs for American families.\u201d The announcement touted 110 new regulations enacted by federal agencies on \u201ceverything from air conditioners and furnaces, to clothes washers and dryers, to kitchen appliances and water heaters\u2014as well as commercial and industrial equipment.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the Biden administration: \u201cOnce finalized, these standards will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an estimated 2.4 billion metric tons, equivalent to the carbon emissions from 10 million homes, 17 million gas cars, or 21 coal-fired power plants over 30 years. The projected consumer savings from these standards would be $570 billion cumulatively, and for an average household this will mean at least $100 in annual savings.\u201d<\/p>\n

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These actions follow a familiar pattern: rumors of new directives, followed by official denials, followed by draconian diktats.<\/strong>\u00a0For example, reports that the Consumer Product Safety Commission would ban gas stoves over alleged safety concerns sparked a public outcry in January, which was met with\u00a0denials<\/a>\u00a0by the Commission, together with media ridicule, that any such thing was being contemplated. This was then followed by new environmental standards from the DOE that would ban the manufacturing of 50 percent of the gas stoves available on the market today.<\/p>\n

The DOE rules elicited criticism from House Republicans, who in a\u00a0March 21 letter<\/a>\u00a0to Granholm called the regulations \u201ca blatant back door attempt to ban gas appliances enjoyed by millions of Americans.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour attempt to ban gas appliances has no basis in law or within your jurisdiction,\u201d GOP representatives charged. \u201cThe Department of Energy has enjoyed bipartisan support, your actions to appease the Biden Administration\u2019s radical climate agenda does not reflect well upon the Department.\u201d<\/p>\n

While consumer advocates doubt that these new measures will save Americans money, appliance makers say consumers will not be happy with the products that are left to buy.<\/p>\n

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by Kevin Stocklin, Activist Post: A pledge by the Biden administration in December 2022 to take \u201cmore than 100 actions\u201d to impose significantly tighter environmental standards on consumer goods is now becoming reality, and consumer groups are predicting a future in which\u00a0Americans pay more for products that do less, while manufacturers warn of shortages and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153989,154020,153905,154322,153896,153880,153899,126466],"tags":[156259,154044],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356936,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356935\/revisions\/356936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}