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From Light Bulbs To Air Conditioners, Biden Is Rolling Out The Regs

by Stephen Moore
April 12, 2022, 9:54 AM
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bidenOnce upon a time, the mantra of the libertarian Left was “keep the government out of the bedroom.”

President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi want to regulate any gadget or appliance with an electric switch that turns on in your house or your driveway.

New Department of Energy rules will dictate the amount of water that comes out of your showerhead, how much warm air comes out of your heater, and how much cool air comes out of air conditioners. [bold, links added]

There is even talk about gadgets monitoring your home’s temperature in the winter and summer months.

How is any of this the government’s business?

The latest shower regulations are especially aggravating. The new water-efficient heads make you stand in the shower much longer to get wet and wash your hair because the water pressure is low. It’s a drip, drip, drip policy.

This is all reminiscent of the low-flush toilets mandated during the Bush and Obama years. These were designed to save water, but there was so little water flow that you had to flush two or three times. So it ended up not saving water at all.

Light bulbs, swimming pools, refrigerators, and freezers are all subject to the same regulatory schemes.

Last week, the Biden regulators announced fuel efficiency requirements for cars, minivans, and light trucks of 49 mpg by 2026.

New cars are already more fuel-efficient than ever before, and the Trump rules had the requirement rising to 32 mpg over four years.

That wasn’t enough progress for Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. “Mayor Pete” hates any car with a combustible engine. At his press conference announcing the strict mileage rules, he assured us this would save motorists money.

But if it’s such a great financial benefit, Pete, why do you have to mandate it?

But here’s the other part of the story that the greenies won’t tell: the new rules won’t reduce pollution levels much. This is because the higher fuel standards can raise the price of a new car by $1,000 to $3,000.

So to save money, families keep their older gas guzzlers on the road longer. Congrats to the White House: your new pollution standards may actually mean higher, not lower, tailpipe emissions.

It gets worse. The primary way auto companies comply with strict fuel standards is by making cars lighter. Get the family out of a minivan and into a Ford Fiesta.

But our friends at the Competitive Enterprise Institute note that lighter cars are more dangerous and lead to more fatalities. So the Biden administration is willing to spill more blood on the highways to save gas. What humanitarians!

The new draconian fuel standards are higher than what former President Barack Obama requested and even higher than what the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency recommended.

And under the rules, auto companies that fail to meet the standards can buy emission credits for tens of millions of dollars from other auto companies — like Tesla.

What’s the real goal here? Obviously, make fuel standards are so unachievable that everyone has to buy an electric car.

But, of course, many low and middle-income families can’t afford the higher costs for Tesla, so they will henceforth ride on one of Pete’s electric buses.

How is this progress?

These rules are designed to save the planet, but most people just want to stay warm in the winter and cool in the summer, and they want to choose their car rather than having Biden choose for them.

If it seems like Big Brother is watching you, you’re not paranoid. He is looking over your shoulder. So keep your showers short and your air conditioner off, and stop driving around in that gas-guzzling family car.

Read more at Townhall

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Comments 5

  1. Spurwing Plover says:
    3 years ago

    We have real Dim-Bulb in the Whitehouse

  2. Ken Irwin says:
    3 years ago

    “Energy Efficiency” Standards for Dishwashers, clothes dryers, washing machines etc. – manufacturers have warned that the standards mooted will produce appliances that will not do the job properly and will be recycled (run twice) to get the job done using more power overall as a result – a complete backfire on the intended outcome.
    Efficiency standard for electric motors – without going into a long technical explanation squirrel cage motors have very poor starting torque – related to their degree of “slip” from synchronous – you can only improve the efficiency of these motors by reducing their “slip” but this also reduces their starting torque. So it may well come to pass that on replacing your 1kW “85% efficient motor” with a 95% efficient version you will need to use a 2kW motor in order to get it to start and your overall costs and energy use will actually increase.
    As an engineer, I find it hugely irritating that politicians presume to tell engineers how to do their jobs – do they really believe engineers deliberately design inefficient equipment ? I believe – as an engineer – that we constantly try to produce and improve economical designs to meet market pressure – therefore I can only come to the conclusion that political meddling will result in greater costs and inefficiencies.
    At the great economist Milton Friedman stated “The government solution to a problems is usually as bad as the problem”
    I would go further and state that most government solutions are a good deal worse (in terms of overall societal cost) than the original problem.

  3. Steve Bunten says:
    3 years ago

    So, forcing cars to have a higher CAFE at 49MPG will lead to, as mentioned, lighter cars which can cause higher highway fatalities. Add to that the fact that electric cars are much heavier than IC vehicles so combine the heavy EV’s with the light IC’s you have a recipe for increased death on the roads.

  4. Spurwing Plover says:
    3 years ago

    That’s what Liberal Democrats are all about Regulations Red Tape and mountain’s of Paperwork

  5. Randy Verret says:
    3 years ago

    A couple things. The marketplace is a LOT more efficient at allocating resources. Let it work. Consumers are the best judge of what they need and THEY will (ultimately) pick the appropriate winners & losers. Like the litter campaigns of the 60’s, start a CONSERVATION messaging program. We consume too much. Educate folks on WHY it is important to take efficiency & conservation of resources more seriously. Be mindful with consumer preferences and again, the marketplace will dictate the correct choices. If wind & solar are so cost effective, fine. Then ELIMINATE all energy subsidies & let them COMPETE in the market with fossil fuels. Climate change is a “Crisis.?” Fine, then have a legitimate scientific debate BEFORE you wreck the energy system. EV’s are the “Next Big Thing?” OK, stop subsidizing & let them OVERWHELM the marketplace if they are so righteous! Authoritarians don’t want to debate ideas. They want to IMPOSE their will. Send a strong message in November that YOU are responsible and empowered. That YOU can make the right choices for yourself. We better get this right in the 2022 & 2024 election cycles. Otherwise, this is just the start of a society you won’t like nearly as much as you used to…

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