The Biden administration added refrigerators and freezers to the list of household appliances that will soon see overhauled “energy efficiency” requirements in the regime’s ongoing crusade against the alleged climate doomsday.
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Energy unveiled new finalized refrigerator and freezer standards that will impact millions of Americans whose lives have come under an increasing amount of big government influence, especially when it comes to the regime’s radical overhaul of society to implement its climate change agenda.
The agency explained that the new standards for fridges and freezers as well as proposed standards for commercial fans and blowers would eventually eliminate “420 million metric tons of dangerous carbon dioxide emissions” over the next three decades and predicted that the updated rules “will save American households and businesses $5 billion per year on their utility bills.”
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, a committed climate cult zealot, hailed the addition of the latest appliances to the regime’s expanding target list, joining gas stoves, ceiling fans, and water heaters.
“Today’s announcement is a testament to the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to lowering utility costs for working families, which is helping to simultaneously strengthen energy independence and combat the climate crisis,” the former Michigan governor said in a statement. “DOE will continue to move quickly in 2024—together with our industry partners and stakeholders—to update and strengthen outdated energy efficiency standards, which is critical to innovation, more consumer options, and healthier communities.”
“As of today, DOE has issued 30 proposed or final energy efficiency standards in 2023, meeting the Administration’s goal for the year while also carrying out Congressional direction for energy savings that maintain reliability and performance across household appliances and commercial and industrial equipment,” read a Department of Energy statement posted to the regulatory agency’s website.
“These actions reinforce the trajectory of consumer savings that form a key pillar of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda and underscore the Administration’s commitment to tackling the climate crisis while lowering costs for American families and businesses. The President’s unprecedented actions to strengthen efficiency standards will save the average family at least $100 a year through lower energy bills,” the DOE said.
“Refrigerator standard are much like dishwashers and clothes washers, where there’ve been so many standards over the decades that we’re either at the point of diminishing returns or negative returns,” Competitive Enterprise Institute senior fellow Ben Lieberman told Fox News Digital in a Friday interview. “And there is a tendency for the agency’s own analysis to inflate the benefits.”
“Consumers are perfectly capable of making these decisions on their own, including consumers who want to buy extra efficient refrigerators or other models,” he added. “What these standards do is they force that choice on everyone, whether it makes sense for them or not. And we know from history that, in some cases, these standards raise the upfront cost more than you’re likely to earn back in the form of energy savings.”
“They are trying to reshape the place that you live to make it look like the home they would like you to live in,” Alliance For Consumers’ executive director O.H. Skinner told Fox Business in October. “They’re really trying to impose what are progressive preferences from places in coastal enclaves and make it so that everyone has to live like that. And that affects you every day.”
The new standards didn’t get much attention with the announcement coming in a Friday news dump on a long holiday weekend.
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