DOE’s War On Appliances

Written by Nick Pope on March 6, 2024. Posted in Current News

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 [widespread] effort to shape markets to decidedly favor more energy-efficient appliances in the coming years.

The agency stated that the rules would reduce carbon dioxide emissions and save consumers money on their water and electricity bills [over] 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 reducing about 71 million metric tons of CO2 emissions over the next three decades.

The regulations increase the minimum water and energy efficiency levels that washers and dryers must meet down the road 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 Alliance for Consumers executive director 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.”

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