In the Left’s latest radical green energy push, the Biden Administration announced a new restriction on another everyday household item.
The Biden Administration targets home gas-powered furnaces, finding itself in the crosshairs of woke climate change regulators.
On Friday, the Department of Energy announced new standards that, taking place in 2028, will require non-weatherized gas furnaces in homes and mobile homes to achieve an “annual fuel utilization efficiency” of 95 percent.
The DOE claims the new regulations will cut household utility costs by $1.5 billion while reducing greenhouse gas emissions from residences. This is just one effort of the Biden Administration’s plan to achieve a 50 to 52 percent reduction in emissions by 2030.
Despite natural gas being less than one-third as expensive as electricity per unit energy basis, the only gas furnaces that would likely survive under the final rule will be more costly and harder to install.
Richard Meyer, the vice president of energy markets, analysis, and standards at the American Gas Association (AGA), told Fox News Digital that there are technical reasons why banning gas furnaces is concerning.
“It has to do with the ability for consumers to be in compliance with this new efficiency standard,” Meyer began. “They’re going to have to install new equipment to exhaust gas out of their home. These higher efficiency units, or so-called condensing units — a lot of consumers have them in their homes, but a lot of consumers don’t. So, this rule would require additional retrofits for a lot of consumers. And those retrofits can be extremely cost prohibitive.”
America’s everyday items are under attack. Other efforts to achieve its fossil-fuel-free future include banning gas stoves, gas-powered vehicles, washing machines, and meat.
you can get fuel most anywhere. you can only get electricity from the grid, or a generator. This is all about control. stfu and get back in line plebes!.
This guy has to go !!!!
Sure am glad airforce and marine 1 are both battery operated; reducing carbon emissions for the trips to Delaware.
Democrats use GREEN to steal your Taxpayer $$$$$$$ & NONE of it goes to make any damn thing GREEN !!!!!