Blackouts for choice! Very few Americans are purchasing walk in refrigerators for their homes or large eletric motors. This is not to help Americans.
-Under Biden, the DOE’s appliance efficiency program boosted the standards for more than two dozen product classes, though the implementation of those standards for some appliances is still years away. The agency in December estimated that the stronger appliance standards would save consumers about $1 trillion and cut emissions by 2.5 billion metric tons over three decades.-
Saving about a trillion and cutting emissions sounds horrible. Give me "choice" of less efficient products instead. And, if I wnat the efficient product but they don't make it? Where is the choice there?
-“And that’s a big rule … a massive amount of energy consumed in industry and commercial buildings is in electric motors,” deLaski said. The rule was supported by manufacturers and utilities, he added, leading to the fundamental question: “When is a rule final?”
The now-withdrawn rule for electric motors was expected to save American businesses up to $56 billion on utility bills and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 156 million metric tons over 30 years of sales, ASAP said in January, pointing to DOE estimates.-
All for bigger bills and a strained grid? Yea congress!
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