The Biden administration is ready to have complete control over how Americans warm their families, prepare their meals, and light their houses.
While the implementation of a potential ban on gas stoves is unknown and an incandescent light bulb ban is quickly approaching, a regulation governing gas furnaces is apparently on the way.
According to Fox News Digital, the Biden administration will soon put the finishing touches on its decree ordering households to install energy-efficient furnaces.
In a statement released on June 13, 2022, the Department of Energy described the rule and claimed that if it were to be adopted, consumers would save billions each year on their utility bills as well as 373 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions would be avoided over the course of 30 years, claims that critics have proposed are based on incorrect assumptions.
In accordance with the regulation, “non-weatherized gas heating systems and those placed in mobile homes will be required to reach a yearly fuel usage efficiency of 95%.”
Nearly all of the gas utilized by the furnaces must be turned into heat in order to meet this ultra-utilization efficiency criteria.
Condenser furnaces, which the Biden administration wants to impose on part of the population, contain additional heat exchangers that absorb the heat from the exhaust, unlike less costly ordinary furnaces whose exhaust gases are released outside.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute senior scholar Ben Lieberman claims that the 2029 implementation date of this standard “would essentially prohibit non-condensing furnaces because condensing alternatives would then be the only choices available.”
According to reports, the average yearly fuel usage efficiency for furnaces now on the market is 80%.
Between 40% and 60% of furnaces already on the market would be prohibited under the proposed standard.
When the proposed regulation was first announced, Jennifer Granholm, the secretary of Biden’s DOE, stated: “By revising energy-efficiency standards regarding numerous carbon-emitting appliances, including home furnaces, the Biden Administration is making efforts to save consumers money.”
Critics, some of whom have remarked the forced action would not be cost-effective for everyone, are unconvinced by Granholm’s promise of consumer savings.
One of the rule’s detractors, Lieberman, said in an interview with Reason, “The only thing these rules accomplish is to push the ultraefficient decision on everyone, even when one size does not fit all. Appliances with higher initial prices may or may not save you money on energy because of such efficiency criteria.”
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