[ April 19, 2024 ]
“They’re going to have to, in many cases, install new equipment to exhaust gas out of their home….
this rule would require additional retrofits for a lot of consumers. And those retrofits can be extremely cost prohibitive.”
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Biden admin is preparing to target Americans’ gas furnaces amid stove crackdown
Between 40%-60% of the current residential furnaces on the market currently would be prohibited under the proposed regulationStory continues below advertisementBy Thomas Catenacci | Fox News June8, 2023:
Biden’s green energy agenda targeting appliances, household items
Power the Future Executive Director Daniel Turner joined ‘Fox & Friends’ to discuss how the policies are ‘taking a toll’ on Americans and the broader concerns surrounding the push.
The Biden administration is expected to soon finalize regulations restricting which home gas-powered furnaces consumers are able to purchase in the future.
According to experts, the regulations — proposed in June 2022 by the Department of Energy (DOE) — would restrict consumer choice, drive prices higher and likely have a low impact on greenhouse gas emissions. The agency could finalize the rules targeting residential gas furnaces, which more than 50% of American households rely on for space heating, at any point over the upcoming weeks.
“This is a classic example of one size not fitting all,” Ben Lieberman, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told Fox News Digital in an interview. “Every home is different, every homeowner is different and people are best off having a wide range of choices. They can work with their contractor to make the best decision for their home and their circumstances.”
“The efficiency standard would effectively outlaw non-condensing furnaces and condensing alternatives would be the only ones available,” Lieberman said. “Those are more efficient, but they cost more. And installation costs could be a big problem for some houses that are not compatible with condensing furnaces.”
“These efficiency measures not only reduce carbon and methane emissions, but also provide huge material benefits to American households in the form of cleaner air, modernized technology, and cheaper energy,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said after proposing the furnace standards last year. (Aaron M. Sprecher/Bloomberg)
Under the proposed regulations, DOE would require furnaces to achieve an annual fuel utilization efficiency (AFUE) of 95% by 2029, meaning manufacturers would only be allowed to sell furnaces that convert at least 95% of fuel into heat within six years. The current market standard AFUE for a residential furnace is 80%.
Because of the stringent AFUE requirements, the regulations would largely take non-condensing gas furnaces — which are generally less efficient, but cheaper — off the market. But consumers who replace their non-condensing furnace with a condensing furnace after the rule is implemented face hefty installation costs.
“There are some really technical reasons why this is such a concerning rule,” Richard Meyer, the vice president of energy markets, analysis and standards at the American Gas Association (AGA), told Fox News Digital in an interview. “It has to do with the ability for consumers to be in compliance with this new efficiency standard.”
“They’re going to have to, in many cases, install new equipment to exhaust gas out of their home. These higher efficiency units, or so-called condensing units — a lot of consumers have them in their home, but a lot of consumers don’t. So, this rule would require additional retrofits for a lot of consumers. And those retrofits can be extremely cost prohibitive.”
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6 Comments10 months agoThis is another attack on the American people, by the elites in the corrupt government, which most of them have no knowledge about what they are banning, but want to control the country with their FAKE climate change BS. They are all disgusting and need to be removed.
10 months agoWhere’s Congress in all this? Do Americans really want this?! Again where’s Congress?! They need to stop the idiocy of the escaped dementia patient who’s in the oval office!
10 months agoThis is a good editorial. It shows, just as the EPA/ATF/DOJ/CIA, how UNELECTED BUREAUCRATS are going WAY PAST THEIR AUTHORITY and passing “regulations” with the power of law are HURTING AMERICAN CITIZENS!!!
10 months agoI used to hear it once in a while ….. now, I’m hearing it much more often ……. the wording is not an “exact quote”, but, the sentiment is, basically, “If you want to safe the Republic, if you want to save the country, if you want to save yourself ….. start killing democrats”.
If the TYRANNY is not stopped,
If the warrant-less attacks against Trump, are not stopped,
If the attacks on the “Freedom of We The People” are not stopped,
WAR WILL BE THE RESULT.I don’t want to see it come, but I am powerless to stop it on my own.
I am glad that I am 73 and, likely, will not live to see the terror of, yet another, Civil War.10 months agoFrom electric cars, gas stoves to furnaces. What’s next? Keep voting DemoRat and we will rename our country to Haiti Two. It over folks and I see it.
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