Posted on 09/13/2023 2:52:54 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
President Joe Biden’s proposed energy efficiency standards for water heaters, released July 21 by the Energy Department, not only would raise the cost of water heaters for consumers but take certain products off the market.
One popular tankless natural gas water heater, made by Rinnai in Griffin, Georgia, would have to be discontinued. The public has until Sept. 26 to file comments.
Beginning in 2029, the Energy Department’s proposed regulation would set government standards for all types of water heaters, including gas-fired, oil-fired, electric, and instantaneous tankless water heaters.
The proposed rule would raise standards disproportionately for tankless, gas-fired water heaters to over 91% efficiency. Trouble is, achieving this level of efficiency with noncondensing technology is impossible to do.
This change would deprive Americans of a valuable option when it comes to water heaters. Consumers could purchase electric tankless water heaters, but not the less expensive models heated with natural gas.
Rinnai, whose products are used all over the world, is headquartered in Nagoya, Japan. It set up production in Georgia in 2001 and directly employs around 350 in a factory there, benefiting local restaurants and small businesses.
Rinnai is the only company that produces tankless water heaters in the United States. Its noncondensing natural gas water heater sells for about $1,100 at Home Depot, compared to $1,800 for a 75-gallon tank.
The Energy Department’s proposed efficiency standard essentially would ban noncondensing, gas-fired, tankless water heaters because the technology of heating water with gas reaches its efficiency limit without using more expensive “condensing” technology.
Although noncondensing, gas-fired, tankless water heaters are more efficient than water heaters with tanks, the latter aren’t subject to the same standard.
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And where are our supposed “elected” representatives STOPPING THIS?
He’s not a president. He’s a dictator.
Biden needs to worry about how hot it is in Hell rather than how hot it is on Earth.
I have a whole house tankless natural gas WH and love it. It’s about 10 years old (with no problem so far) but maybe I’d better consider laying in a spare.
FJB, he can KMA.
It's like the "efficient" flush twice toilets or the dishwashers that are so ineffective that you have to run a lot of water to hand wash the dishes before putting them in the dishwasher
MSM sits on all these things coming down the track because they know it would crush the substantial support he has left. By the time most find out it will be too late
Everything Brandon is doing on this stuff is based on the Clean Air Act of 1990.
You can thank Bush 1.0 for that one.
“Although noncondensing, gas-fired, tankless water heaters ARE MORE EFFICIENT THAN WATER HEATERS WITH TANKS, the latter aren’t subject to the same standard.”
What am I missing, here?
Change the standard and keep the MORE EFFICIENT tanks on the market!
“And where are our supposed “elected” representatives STOPPING THIS?”
OUR representatives? I don’t know about you, but I do not have one. I cannot afford one. The guy here in the Arizona sixth district is, I think still on vacation. But he sure as hell does not represent me. I have never seen him nor heard anything about or from him since the election.
Biden had nothing to do with this. He is a vegetable and figurehead
This is the permanent, debt-fueled, progressive/woke Federal bureaucracy just doing its fascist thing.
They will be around long after Biden is dead and gone.
The DOE needs to go bye bye along with the ATF DEA EPA FDA and IRS.
OBAMA TURNING USA INTO A 3rd WORLD status.
Just like last time, President Trump will be left with a huge mess, first by obama and second by bidiot. But he managed to fix the obaminations and he can fix the bidinations.
its a never ending shite show if you ask me
This is what happens when you have a runaway government bureaucracy.
When make belief and where you cannot show any direct causality nor damages becomes a threat.
Agreed....
but pray harder if Newsome becomes the new face of the dems and their candidate
Within 10 minutes of taking office, Biden un-did nearly everything Trump did in 4 years, using his signing pen, and with the help of the permanent Fed.gov bureaucracy.
Trump claims he will end the deep-state. Unless he literally kills and dismembers it, nothing will change.
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