Posted on 03/01/2024 12:17:50 PM PST by Twotone
The Biden administration finalized regulations for residential clothes washers and dryers on Thursday.
The Department of Energy (DOE) announced that it is locking in the “energy efficiency” regulations for residential clothes washers and dryers, marking the latest development in the Biden administration’s wide effort to shape markets to decidedly favor more energy efficient appliances in the coming years. The agency stated that the rules will reduce carbon dioxide emissions and save consumers money on their water and electricity bills over the course of many years.
“For decades, DOE’s appliance standards actions for clothes washers and dryers have provided loads of savings for American families while also decreasing harmful carbon emissions,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said of the finalized regulations. Her agency contends that the rules could save Americans as much as $39 billion on their energy and water bills, while also reducing about 71 million metric tons worth of carbon dioxide emissions over the next three decades. (RELATED: Biden Admin Rolls Out Slew Of Regs Targeting Americans’ Appliances On Last Friday Of The Year)
The regulations increase the minimum water and energy efficiency levels that washers and dryers must meet down the road in order to remain on shelves. In many cases, more energy efficient units do not work as effectively or quickly as older and less efficient models, O.H. Skinner, the executive director of the Alliance for Consumers, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“Another day, another regulation from the Biden administration to remove products from the shelves and limit what people can buy in the name of their ideological goals. At this point, consumers have gotten the message: if it moves or has a motor and it is in your house, Biden would like it to cost more and probably be less effective,” Skinner told the DCNF. “Their primary rationale is that it will cost you less in the electricity bill, but don’t worry, in places like California, politicians are busy trying to drive up electricity bills, too.”
In a January opinion relating to a separate legal battle over DOE appliance energy efficiency rules for dishwashers and clothes washers, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals notably pointed out that some appliances favored by Biden administration policy “make Americans use more energy and more water for the simple reason that purportedly ‘energy efficient’ appliances do not work.”
Beyond clothes washers and dryers, the Biden DOE has also promulgated energy efficiency regulations for common household appliances like dishwashers, water heaters, furnaces and pool pump motors. The administration has also spent hundreds of millions of dollars on helping state and municipal governments pursue building codes that phase out natural gas infrastructure and favor electrification.
The DOE did not respond immediately to a request for comment.
Out of control government is out of control.
The bigger the government and these bureaucracies get the smaller the people become.
We usually need to add 2 large buckets of water to our GE “water efficient” washer at the beginning of the wash cycle. Otherwise the top portion of the clothes remain dry and thus unwashed.
Government is out of control because both parties keep giving it more and more money to control us.
So...they are going to be even worse than they are now?
How much energy does it take to replace the energy efficient appliances which break after five years instead of lasting twenty like the older ones did? How much energy do you waste from prewashing dishes or having to wash things twice?
I have the HE washers....have to wash my clothes twice...the second time with no soap.
You can still order the real Speed Queens. I had to wait on the list for six months to take delivery.
New appliances . . . Efficient, but not Effective.
Brain spins a while, then . . . splat.
I had a roommate from Luxembourg. I learned you rinse your socks and underwear in the bathroom sink. You air dry them. You toss your clothes into the shower with you. You air dry those also.
Except all the regulations the EPA is putting on utilities, the price keeps going up, washing out (get it?) any savings they are saying will happen....
Right now I have a very expensive "real Speed Queen" dryer that isn't even 6 months old that has been sitting for three weeks waiting for parts because the control board fried and almost set my house on fire.
Keep your Speed Queens. I'm not falling for the fake marketing hype again. They're junk just like all the rest.
I’m getting very tired of carrying buckets of water to my washing machine which (ha ha!) senses how much water is necessary. Trump &/or Congress needs to do away with the DOE. It should’ve been done years ago.
so now you gotta wash everything twice like flushing twice... right???
thank God i have use clothesline
Wishing people like Jennifer Granholm were doing something useful & not working for the government. What good is saving energy if an appliance (or a toilet stool)has to be cycled twice to get the job done? This would be common sense to a normal person. The present appliances I have are doing a pretty good job & I dread the day I have get one one of the new “energy saving” pieces of crap because I can’t find anything that really does the job. I just had to purchase a new water heater at great expense 7 of course I don’t know yet how long it will last.
We bought a Speed Queen Commercial Classic (the laundromat kind)last weekendfor the simple fact that apparently the commercial ones are still exempt from the stupid enviro rules.
And it has an deep fill setting and no lid lock so you can add the sock you dropped in the hallway after you turned it on.
just looked it up ... are they really about $1400
I paid 1250 at my local dealer.
I’m married to a mechanic, his clithes are dirt-tay.
So price is of less importance to me than functionality. This one is all analog, all knobs and no $700 computer control board that’s on backorder.
I am trying to convince my wife to get a Speed Queen. Which model did you end up with?
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