April 4, 2023

In Brief: Biden’s War on Appliances

President Joe Biden’s administration is working to regulate air conditioners. Let’s ban AC in DC.

We’ve warned you about Joe Biden targeting gas stoves and washing machines. University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds now warns you about air conditioners.

Is there a war on appliances? Or is it a war on you?

I’d tell you to keep your cool, but that’s going to be hard when Team Biden takes away your air conditioner.

And the Biden administration certainly has an appetite for regulating household appliances in a way that seems calculated to make your life worse.

He too points back to stoves, as well as washing machines and dishwashers.

Now, in the latest episode of Team Biden’s “war on appliances,” the Energy Department has turned its attention to air conditioners, specifically room air conditioners of the sort used disproportionately by poor people, minorities and the elderly to keep cool in summer heat.

New energy-efficiency regulations promise to make these units more expensive for consumers and potentially less reliable and less effective at, you know, actually cooling things off.

“What these standards do is enforce a level of efficiency that doesn’t make sense,” the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Ben Lieberman [said recently]. “And they compromise product quality. We’ve already seen this to an extent with cost of clothes-washer standards.”

As Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) tweeted: “They’re after our stoves, our washing machines, and now, our air conditioners. Funny you never see them coming after private jets. The only goal of the ‘green’ agenda is making you SUFFER! That’s it!”

It does seem the common thread in all these environmental proposals is making ordinary people’s lives worse. Especially senior citizens’ and minorities’.

Reynolds talks stats next — as in the number of elderly people and minorities who die from heat-related causes being disproportionately higher.

Making air conditioners more expensive and less reliable can only make that gap wider. Why do Jennifer Granholm and the Biden administration hate minorities and the elderly?

Reynolds concludes with a proposal of his own, designed “to see that our most powerful citizens share in their sacrifice.” That is, he says, “Ban air conditioning in Washington, DC.” He’s fully aware that this would never happen, but it’s the perfect way to highlight the hypocrisy of those who are quick to make you sacrifice for their agenda.

Read the whole thing here.

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