The Biden administration’s green agenda has set their sites on yet another common household appliance. First it was gas stoves, then dishwashers, and even water heaters.
Now the Department of Energy is proposing a rule to crackdown on ceiling fans! That’s right. The Biden regime is not a “fan” of your ceiling fan, IF it is not “energy efficient.”
The DOE claims that requiring fans to be more energy efficient will save U.S. households on energy costs. Ironically enough, we use ceiling fans to cut down on our costs because running the air condition is expensive. Then, in the winter, we reverse our fans to help distribute the heat because running the heat is even more expensive than running the AC. Go figure.
CEILING FAN CRACKDOWN: The Biden admin is introducing new regulations on Americans’ ceiling fans with expected costs to manufacturers being more than $86 million per year: pic.twitter.com/4mpTvLFcsq
— Conservative War Machine (@WarMachineRR) August 25, 2023
Fox Business reports:
According to the Energy Department’s analysis, the new rules would save households about $39 over the lifespan of the new energy-efficient fan. However, the cost to manufacturers associated with the increased equipment will total $86.6 million per year, the department said.
Republicans on the House Committee on Small Business say that if the rule goes into effect, it could put small manufacturers out of business, given the costs the companies would incur in order to comply with the changes.
“This rule would require numerous small business fan manufacturers to redesign their products and may put between 10 and 30 percent of small business ceiling fan manufacturers out of business,” argued members of the committee in a letter to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on Thursday. “It appears that the Department of Energy (DOE) may not have properly considered small entities during this rulemaking process.”
The next day, a DOE spokesperson defending the proposed rule change. They told FOX, “These proposed standards, which are required by Congress, wouldn’t take effect until 2028, would give Americans more energy efficient options to choose from, and would save hardworking taxpayers up to $369 million per year, while substantially reducing harmful air pollution — a crucial fact that some have conveniently failed to mention.”
The agency said standard residential ceiling fans complying with the proposed rule would cut consumers’ electricity costs to operate fans by roughly 40% compared to with the least-efficient fans currently on the market. The DOE estimates the purchase price of fans would increase by around $10 a piece if the new regulations are put in place, and says that additional cost would be covered by energy bill savings in about four years.
The Energy Department has been on the warpath to impose more stringent regulations on household appliances for the past several months, proposing new standards for gas stoves, ovens, washing machines, refrigerators, air conditioners, dishwashers and other essentials as part of its mission to advance energy efficiency and conservation.
On his first day as president in January 2021, Biden signed an executive order that required the DOE to make “major revisions” to their appliance regulation standards. One month later, the agency released a list of more than a dozen new energy-efficiency rules that affect appliances such as water heaters, cooking products and lamps.
“Their philosophy is energy efficiency at all costs or energy efficiency no matter the cost,” a former senior Energy Department official told Fox News Digital. “That means we are going to see, as a result of their efficiency standards, higher-priced appliances. It’s that simple.”
So the administration’s claim that it would save households money is not accurate. The minimal money possibly saved will now have to be used to buy more expensive appliances. They are essentially stealing from Peter to give to Paul. It’s a run around and doesn’t help anyone in the long run.
Keep in mind, this is the exact same administration who wants to take away our oil and gas powered vehicles and force us into electric cars……yet they can’t even figure out how to make electric affordable and keep the grid secure. Several states see rolling blackouts just to keep the power on. This is insane.
the current anti American government that we have in America now has had only one goal.And that goal is to destroy the United States. they are afraid that their rule in America may already be on its way out. So they are going all out to do as much damage as they can before being ousted.
Very true…..and I have one question for Bozo Biden. How many fans do you have in your home, punk? Plus I’ve never heard of such idiocy on my life. Did Hunter think this one up???
Let’s get something straight here. Biden is not smart enough to have come up with this on his own. Biden is just a puppet or mouth piece for what I fell is Obama. Everything that is happening or being brought up is Obama and the WEF’s plan
Biden’s level of stupid is beyond
Well what will someone at one of his speeches would speak out
Under dopey Joe, this administration has gone completely loopy and anti-America. The democrats are trying to do anything they can to destroy the liveability of our country!!
What next A law on changing underwear too often and overuse of washing machines? I wonder how many of these useless laws are being discussed instead of the real problems facing America. More fun to outlaw Ceiling Fans than to attack inflation.
I am so sick of this loony bird pres. it’s time to put him in a home and all the individuals tat are keeping him standing up. enough already. who/what the h is watching the store???????????????
your preview can stick it in your ear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! also, you need to get a real job!!!!!!@!
What I can’t hear you
Yet another law to kill small business. I wonder how much money large corporations like General Electric spent lobbying to get this law in place?
Power and Control. This is just another of the coordinated efforts by the One World Order elites to turn the entire world back to a Feudal system of existence where there is a ruling class and a peasant class. They don’t want independent thinkers or citizens who rely upon themselves for sustainment. They want people subservient to a ruling elite who will make decisions for them. This is where the USA is unique. Starting in 1776, for the first time in history, a government was formed that let ‘We the People’ decide for themselves how they should live their lives and gave them the ability to prosper or fail by their own choosing. This freedom spread throughout the world in some countries. The countries that denied their citizens that freedom are dictatorships. Get the picture? Under the Communist Democrats, America is fast devolving back into a Feudal society where ‘the Government’ controls your destiny, not you.
Another alphabet agency that will be 100% defunded when Trump returns.
I don’t like hearing from the Globalists about what I can and canot do, what I can and what I cannot have, and their great Reset proposal. Personally I have had it with their interfearance with the USA and world. People that are the Globalists: JOhn Kerry, Bill Gates, Bloomberg, Klaus Schwab, Vandana Shuva and more than likely the Gettys, Rockefellers, Rothchilds, Debares and a bunch of others feel they are superior to everyone else only because they have money. Their combined common since wouldn’t fill a bucket. When the push comes to shove, I bet they have their compounds well guraded with armed guards and an escape helicopter ready to go. Piss of enough people and their will be a revolution of sorts and I wouldn’t want to have to answer to a group of pissed off people that have been screwed.
Seems you won’t save $39 a year as said earlier, but only $2.50 a year. Another lie. It only affect those buying new fans and that’s only a small percentage of all fans so these “savings” will actually take closer to a century not ten years.
“The DOE estimates the purchase price of fans would increase by around $10 a piece if the new regulations are put in place, and says that additional cost would be covered by energy bill savings in about four years.”
I want Biden and his administration out of my house and out of my private life! What appliances I have in my home are none of their business. He can take all his bans and shove them. Are we still a government of the people, for the people, and by the people? Or have we become a dictatorship of the proletariat?
First of all, no one is coming to take away your ceiling fan. I can say this with confidence because no one came to take away your incandescent light bulbs or your dishwasher or your dryer.
Second, I get that $89 Million in added cost for manufacturers is nothing to sneeze at, but…. In 2022, Americans and Canadians bought $8 Billion worth of ceiling fans. Worldwide, the number was twice that
The bottom line is that American companies manufacture high quality fans. If you buy a Hunter fan manufactured in Tennessee, the ten dollar added cost for fuel efficiency is small beans. Companies that will see the biggest impact are Chinese manufacturers who churn out crap at $50 a unit.
YO PEDOPHILE JOE! Here’s what Americans think of your BS appliance “crackdowns”-
Roll it and put it where “Dr.” Jill takes your temperature!!
Next, since we are coming into the fall and winter seasons, Biden will outlaw broom rakes and snow shovels becasue it upsets natures carpets of the season. This guy has got to go. He values Illegal aliens over US Citizens every day, and gives our taxes away to foreign nations and groups like its a bottomless pit. The US Government has no money other than our tax money and this country is going to pot while he gives it all away.