Obama Took Away Your Light Bulbs. Now, Biden Wants Your Appliances; Six Household Appliances That Have Taken Heat From Biden’s Crackdown On Regulations

Obama Took Away Your Light Bulbs. Now, Biden Wants Your Appliances.

It’s a typical morning over the holidays, the kids have been up since dawn, and you’re making a few pancakes on your gas stove. When they’ve finished eating, you want to pop those dirty dishes in the dishwasher. Sounds simple, and now it is. But thanks to President Joe Biden, your gas stove and your dishwasher (as well as your gas-fired boiler and water heater) might go the way of the dinosaur.

Just as former President Barack Obama took away your light bulbs, the Biden administration wants to take away your favorite appliances. One of President-elect Donald Trump’s first actions should be to get the government out of our kitchens in the same way that he gave us back our light bulbs in his first term.

This year, the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Department of Transportation have announced proposed rules that would take away your choice of appliances—and cars.

And it’s going to cost you. The DOE’s dishwasher rule would increase wash times and result in millions of dollars per year in increased product costs. Households would save less than $20 a year for some dishwasher models, and other models would result in no savings.

Under the DOE’s natural gas stove rule, 90% of new gas stoves sold would have to be redesigned, raising prices and lowering performance. Consumers would pay more than $30 million more for new stoves, and many households would have only small annual savings or even higher costs.

The object of these rules is to reduce consumption of natural gas, a goal of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975, signed into law when America had to import oil and natural gas. Now, however, America is one of the world’s largest energy producers. The law is outdated and should be repealed.

Nevertheless, Biden has used his executive branch powers to regulate your household appliances because Congress, which answers to the people, refused to pass such restrictive laws.

Biden is after your car, too. In April, the EPA released a rule that would require 70% of new vehicle sales to be battery-powered electric or hybrid by 2032. The Department of Transportation released its companion rule in June. —>READ MORE HERE

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Six household appliances that have taken heat from Biden’s crackdown on regulations:

Trump is expected to reverse much of Biden’s climate agenda

The Biden administration has made tightening efficiency standards for household appliances a target as he’s built out his climate agenda over the past four years.

“Making common household appliances more efficient is one of the most effective ways to slash energy costs and cut harmful carbon emissions,” Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, who has spearheaded efforts to push households to adopt green energy alternatives, said in a statement.

However, energy experts and manufacturers have warned that the Biden administration’s regulations would lead to more expensive household appliances that are far less effective than current models.

“What these mandates – what these standards do is enforce a level of efficiency that doesn’t make sense,” said Ben Lieberman, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. “And they compromise product quality. We’ve already seen this to an extent with the cost of clothes washer standards.”

1. Washing machines

The Department of Energy (DOE) introduced a final rule in February imposing stricter energy standards for residential clothes washers (RCWs), such as washing machines and clothes dryers.

Under the regulations, certain less-efficient models of washers and dryers would be barred from being sold, according to DOE.

The department projected that the energy standards would collectively save American households $2.2 billion per year on utility bills while reducing nearly 71 million metric tons of “dangerous carbon dioxide emissions” over the next three decades.

However, the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers argued that DOE’s washing machine regulations “would have a disproportionate, negative impact on low-income households” by eliminating cheaper appliances from the market.

“Despite misleading claims to the contrary, these proposals are intended for nothing more than promoting innovation and keeping money in the pockets of Americans everywhere without sacrificing the reliability and performance that consumers expect and rely on,” a spokesperson for the Department of Energy told Fox News Digital. “As evidenced in the Department’s testing and analysis, the proposed standards would not reduce product performance or negatively impact cleaning ability or cycle time.” —>READ MORE HERE

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