Posted on 05/07/2024 8:06:34 AM PDT by Brilliant
Your next new home air conditioner could set you back $12,000 or more, with federal regulators contributing to the rising cost of staying cool.
Before 2020, buying and installing a new residential central air conditioner typically cost well under $10,000. Many jobs, including both purchase and installation, fell in the $6,000 to $7,000 range—about half the current price—says Martin Hoover, a co-owner of Atlanta-based Empire Heating & Air Conditioning.
While many factors, including rising material costs, have contributed to the increase in prices, regulations have played an outsize role. The Energy Department in January 2023 issued a new efficiency standard for residential systems. It necessitated a major redesign that increased costs by $1,000 to $1,500, according to Mr. Hoover. DOE bureaucrats say the regulation will deliver net benefits for homeowners, but it isn’t clear that consumers will ever earn back in long-term energy savings the steeper upfront costs they’re paying…
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Biden won’t let northerners heat their homes, nor southerners cool their homes.
#FJB
We had a new central heating/air installed last September - 11K.
Mine is over 5 years old. Think I’ll go out and buy a new one.
I just got 2 new units installed in my 3200 sf empty nester house! Is he coming for my house next?-)
You can heat your home with electric home heating, but I don’t think there is electric home cooling, outside an air conditioner.
BFLR
Comrades! Do not be deceived into thinking that our elite enjoy air-conditioning during hot days and heating during cold nights. The chill and low humidity of air-conditioning causes them great discomfort, that they are willing to undergo in order for them to do the peoples’ work and to save Mother Earth.
Just as you wouldn’t expect them to walk or bike the 15 minutes to their workplace, you cannot expect them to work for us when shivering prevents them from writing necessary diktats for the public good.
(Just yesterday my wife and I were discussing the movie Psycho. In the real estate office, only the boss’s office had a/c. The secretaries had to endure the heat. That’s the future planned for us.)
Out of my hot little hands
Has Mr. Lieberman (the author) bought any groceries or filled a car with gasoline since 2020?
Comparatively, air conditioning seems a relative bargain.
Didn’t Joe already take your electric kettle ?
At what point is there a collective no más?
There’s also the issue of EPA banning the most common residential refrigerant. This will force many system replacements.
Crock pots.
Always floating that canard that the consumer benefits in the long run: Pay $1500 now, but they never say that it will purportedly save some piddling some that will offset the cost in 8, 19, 12 years. I am so tired of being lied to
I just put in a new one. 18G. Of course it’s way quieter than the one it replaced, and uses less electricity.
We knew this was coming, the Communist Pope telegraphed it years ago.
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