We all know the routine. Water-saving toilets that don’t flush (flush twice), water/energy-saving dishwashers and clothes washers that don’t clean (run two cycles), lightbulbs that don’t light, dryers that don’t dry (run twice), and all the ancillary nonsense that comes from the intervention of the regulatory state.
What Biden and the progressive movement call the “green new deal” effort toward “sustainability,” including the ban on gas stoves and internal combustion engines, simply results in a diminished quality of life, a loss in lifestyle productivity, and the exact opposite outcome from their expressed/intended purpose. It’s an abject mess of stupidity, pushed under the guise of environmentalism.
Today the Biden Dept of Energy (DOE) takes it one step further with rules and regulations on fridges, freezers and fans. {DOE LINK}
Residential Refrigerators and Freezers – The efficiency standards being adopted today for residential refrigerators, refrigerator-freezers, and freezers, which have not been updated in over a decade, align with recommendations from a diverse set of stakeholders, including manufacturers, the manufacturing trade association, energy, environmental, and consumer advocacy groups, states, and utilities. Compliance will be required either January 31, 2029, or January 31, 2030, depending on the configuration of the refrigerator or freezer. The energy savings over 30 years of shipments is 5.6 quadrillion British thermal units, which represents a savings of 11% relative to the energy use of products currently on the market. DOE estimates that the standards would save consumers $36.4 billion over 30 years of shipments and result in cumulative emission reductions of nearly 101 million metric tons of carbon dioxide—an amount roughly equivalent to the combined annual emissions of 12.7 million homes.
Commercial Fans and Blowers – DOE also released a proposed rulemaking for commercial fans and blowers that would reduce energy costs for American businesses by $3.3 billion annually. This proposal—the first federal standard for this product—follows the lead of efficiency standards already established by the state of California for general fans, extending savings to consumers nationwide and providing clarity for manufacturers. If adopted within DOE’s proposed timeframe, the new rule will come into effect in 2029. DOE estimates the new rule will reduce utility costs for American businesses by nearly $56 billion over 30 years of shipments, while reducing carbon dioxide emissions by nearly 318 million metric tons—an amount roughly equivalent to the combined annual emissions of 40 million homes. (MORE)
Now we will see air conditioning units that don’t cool, fridges that don’t chill, freezers that don’t keep things frozen and fans that do not move air.
Eventually, the compliant generations still to come will be sitting around a campfire eating sustainable algae cakes and bugs, while picking parasites off each other, because progress, environmental justice – or ESG something.
Grandholm looks and speaks like a person illiterate in engineering and physics. I doubt she has much if any sophistication in statistics either. Looks like she’s a just another well-papered lawyer who’s been feeding at the public administration trough for most of her career; a modern day Tammany-style hack who’s graduated from the state party rackets to now preside at the federal level.
She’s a bona fide cliche with her hand in other people’s pockets.
She’s Canadian by birth. One of the most interesting things I have read about the many significant federal officials and executives, particularly in the CDC and NIH involves how many of these officials/executives employed across our federal government are of dual citizenship. It seems to be a generational thing. Perhaps it explains in part the syndromic failed trustee function that plagues our modern institutions that seem to be overflowing with this narcissistic archetype.
How does one reconcile the singular fiduciary duty to our nation with co-equal obligation to a foreign government.
I think the Biden Administration and the SES have done much to demonstrate this irreconcilable conflict of interest is not good for the nation nor well serves its citizen of singular fealty who deserve a certainty of protection against infiltration and predation by officers of the government who are devoted or otherwise obligated to their foreign citizenship or other foreign or transnational agendas. If this is not a reasonable example of a fatal conflict of interest I do not know what is.
And we wonder why this feels like somebody else’s government? Perhaps when they are talking about “our democracy” they are indeed not talking about the rest of us.
Two wolves. One lamb. Voting on what to have for dinner.
Granholm was a terrible two term governor here….whitmer finishing the job she started.
Same culture of person; same cult of personality. It’s syndromic.
Dunning Kruger in high heels.
It’s so Dr. Gay/Dr. Jill.
Why are your state voters continuing to make bad choices? Or are your elections stolen, too?
When you enter a freeway ramp in Michigan, at least in the Detroit Metro area, at the end of the exit you will see…
…I am not making this up…
…a NO U-TURN sign! o)
There are two possibilities for this curiosity: Michigan has enough drivers who enter e.g. a southbound freeway and then do a northbound U-Turn at the end of the ramp to warrant such a sign,
or,
corrupt politicians have relatives in the Highway Sign Business who get contracts to make and install unnecessary freeway signs.
Both could be correct, hence the answers to your questions could both be valid!
During Grantholms We are going to blow you away administration our Michigan Lottery Tickets were printed in Canada………….go figure.
I want to know what they did with money, our school taxes keep going up and they keep cutting programs.
paying fat smelly lesbo teacher union for votes.
Or they realize they made a wrong turn and are headed for Canada LOL!
In a city where most high school grads can’t read.
I believe that states like that it is too late to change it for the most part.
I moved to Washington state on the east side of Seattle in the early eighties.
what a beautiful place. John Spellman was the last Republican Governor in
1985, after him it was Booth Gardner democrat. Both were pretty good but prior
to them was Dixie Lee Ray. There was still talk of her when I first moved there.
the budget was less than a billion dollars. Even Mike Lowery 93-97 wasn’t that bad.
Then comes Gary Locke. I don’t remember if he had already been ambassador to China yet but his connections were there and everything went to hell during and after his reign.
Mail in ballots became the norm and really nothing substantial happened for the people afterwards. Get this, taxpayer monies were being spent so outrageously that the people voted a bill that created a department to oversee where the money was going. When I actually write this down it seems ludicrous. Two years later with zero accountability for spending when some people complained that they still were not getting the numbers they came back and said we don’t have any money to pay for an auditor.
No really!
we left about three years ago and they were spending close to 10 billion a year.
About 50% of that they say is education. It’s always about the children.
Oh and fire and police don’t you know?
I honestly don’t know much about Michigan, but I know a lot about corruption and ballot harvesting. Christine Gregoire the second to last Governor. Washington state department of transportation=corruption.
It’s always been a 10% kickback. The government will give you 100,000 dollars for whatever and you donate 10,000 to their campaign.
How can we out vote the steal?
You know that old adage of you can vote yourselves into socialism/communism/DEIism but you will have to shoot yourselves out of it. Same thing with the steal.
Her big contribution to the Mi economy was “cool cities” what a joke.
Democrats are placed into plum jobs for their ideological fidelity, never for their competence.
Did you know ICE employees can retire at 50?
Granholm comes across as a moron, but she knows how to profit from government green regulations, which is all she cares about.
Look no further than the WEF and Klaus Schwab. Cloward-Pivens overseen by the praying mantis.
She looks like the Gollum.
Those hands are man hands. Jen Granholm is pretending.
Stakeholders!
“… align with recommendations from a diverse set of stakeholders, including manufacturers, the manufacturing trade association…”
They could have stopped writing right the list of “stakeholders” there.
The laws are being re-written for manufacturers and the manufacturing trade associations — the money makers. The laws have absolutely nothing to do with
tree huggersthe environment, but we’ll never prove that to leftists.So when they get all
Those new bulbs are krap. Keep burning out in less than 6 months.
Have had a fluorescent bulb in my hall closet for going on 33 years now…..installed when the house was built….before of the krappy restrictions…
Biden has to go….and take Kamala with him…BOTH of them are way beyond their shelf life.
Trump 2024.
When we heard the “smart environmental” people were going to replace all our incandescent light bulbs we went and bought a couple grocery carts full of the old timey bulbs.
Now, whenever we see them for sale at yard sales we buy them there, too.
The new bulbs make me feel ill. Maybe it’s all psychological, but I’ll go with ill no matter why it comes.
I too went out and bought the normal bulbs, cases of them.
Yup. I saw them at Walmart last year for pennies on the dollar, as they were regulated off the shelves. I bought all they had.
I’m with you. I bought a lifetime supply of incandescents.
Don’t new regulations get approved through congress. They can choose to do nothing or vote them down
No, that’s the problem with government agencies, they subvert Congress.
that means Trump with a stroke of pen can get rid of them
Which is what he should do on day 1 of his next presidency – reverse all regulations that were made during the Biden administration. Two can play at this game.
I would imagine he has an entire team that is just watching biden’s regulations etc and already writing the replacement to undo it all on day one.
Sure, if he can beat the massive cheating that is likely being planned right now. I’m sure the illegal ballots are being printed and mules hired as we speak.
Don’t be so sure. Would bank robbers rob the same bank using the same methods? Only the really stupid will try that because the smarter ones know we are watching for those same fraud schemes.
If a truck driver spots his truck full of ballots this time, I think they will go all out to document and record what is happening.
Agree. I suspect that this is near the top of the leftists’ list of reasons why they will attempt to do whatever is necessary to prevent PDJT from being inaugurated.
And fire and imprison everyone who betrayed our country and constitution.
President Trump….
Congress abdicated authority to them when they created the departments. Especially the EPA.
Not since the adoption of “Chevron deference.” But that issue is in front of the Supreme Court right now. So hopefully it will get struck down and return some element of Constitutional governance.
Oh, it’s going to be target rich environment to fire bureaucrats the next few years.
Yes, Trump must do mass firings and elimination of entire departments starting from his inauguration speech. Rolling back regulations is a must. But he has to eradicate the ‘factories’ where all those regulations get made, the cabinet department agencies.
President Trump. Gracias
We have to get rid of these disgusting demons who are purposely destroying our great nation. I’m just astounded that they still have so much support from so many American citizens. Our population is getting dumber by the day and it’s terrifying.
Granholm, was a disaster as Governor for the state of Michigan, we were glad to see her go. Unfortunately she reappears again demonstrating her lack of education.
The only thing Jennifer Granholm ever did properly was have that giant wart removed from the right side of her face, nothing more.
To bad she didn’t remove the wart on top of her shoulders.
LOL!
Granmole
I honestly cannot recall a more incompetent, ignorant, & yes STUPID Presidential Cabinet.
Heck, I’d prefer an actual cabinet (Furniture) over these stupid group of Leftists anytime.
If they wrote a book on this Cabinet, they would have to title it “Ship of Fools”!!
Question, who is more stupid, Pete Buttigieg or Jennifer Granholm??
Answer: Who cares?? Stupid is stupid.
They’re NOT stupid – they’re EVIL ! Because they know Exactly what they are doing – and Exactly what it means ! It is purely intentional, by design, to destroy middle-class affluence – which is the largest consumer of resources on the planet.
The intention is to conserve/preserve the planet’s resources for the world’s “elite” ruling class while everyone else lives a comparably meager existence.
It is nothing more, or less, than modern-day Feudalism.
Remember the WEF motto ?
“You will Nothing, but you will be happy.”
Just like the feudal “peasants” were centuries ago……. They owned Nothing, but they got to live on their “Lord’s” land, and eek out an existence there, serving the Lord.
Their intention, is for future generations – your children or grandchildren, to be their and their children’s serfs.
Meant to say : “You will ‘own’ nothing”
Back to the image SD always puts up. The meager peasants living amongst the swill and refuse of the elites towering over us.
Sadly EVIL lives on this earth and has fantasies of life just like that.
Yeah, that looks like the plan. Feudalism/communism. What’s the difference?
My vote for stupidest cabinet member goes to Deb Haaland.
Their job is to enrich themselves and their inflated egos and rule like royalty while making the rest of us live in the gutter of poverty.
“Compliance will be required either January 31, 2029, or January 31, 2030″
Trump 2024 =
Biden’s regulations (not laws via congress): It will never happen,it’s just more smoke and mirrors for the “woke” crowd. IMHO the manufacturers likely won’t take any of it seriously until at least November 2024 to see what Trump does.
Your washing machine may say “Maytag” but every inch of the thing screams CHINA.
as does 90% of things we all buy already.
I remember my dad going to china on business when i was about 7-9? yrs old (late 60’s or so)
and he brought home a china doll for me.. i was thrilled and it was something to be proud of to bring to “show and tell” …. it was a rarity back then to have something from a far away land.
Yep and your washing machine internet of things monitors you 24/7
Everyday the biteme regime comes out with more ideas from the dc cesspool think tank.
The talking heads talking to their echo chamber…
Need that money for the never ending war don’t cha know.
Here’s a radical progressive thought.
How about letting people who know what the f**k they’re doing, build stuff that works right and lasts a really long time.
Without “helpful” intervention by clueless, glorified clerks.
Rather than regulate & perpetuate dinky crap that needs repairing after one year & replacement after five.
Unfortunately, planned product obsolescence became a pillar of manufacturing capitalism decades ago.
haha. True. Had one in the last apt. I lived in from 2006-2012.
The thing worked like a charm. It was an ugly olive green color, but ….whatever.
I’m sure it’s still working, and the new tenants could also care less about the color.
Olive Green and Harvest Gold were the two colors secretly devised to protect household appliances from the Breakdown Gremlins. It’s their kryptonite.
I have an upright freezer in my basement from 1976 and still works great,
My 2010 refrigerator is still working but I was told it will only last 10 to 12 years. I shut off and removed the ice maker which makes the compressor run a lot more than normal. Maybe that is why it isn’t dead yet?
Interesting about the ice maker.
I have one now from@ 2010, too. Also have always had the ice maker shut off- and it works fine.
My father returned from WWII in 1945. In 1946, the year in which I was born, he and my mother bought a Frigidaire refrigerator. Today, it stands in my sister’s kitchen, performing much more efficiently than her newer fridges and deepfreeze. It has never been serviced or re-gassed. Even the door seals are original and in perfect condition.
That is so true. You would get 30 to 40 years of use out of that stuff if not more.
The new washers are awful. I found a guy that has regular non-digital, fill-up washers that he has refurbished. $150 cash. I bought one to use and one is wrapped and ready to go in the garage. I looked far and wide 3 years ago for a regular washer. He was the only one in a non-descript building with no sign. He told me a month ago that he only has 2 left on the floor because everyone is bringing their front load “energy/water” savers to him and trying to find old school washers.
I bought the timer, lid switch, agitator pawls for this washer on ebay for less than $160, to replace as needed. If worse comes to worst, I can take my pretty decorative washboard off the wall and grab my grandmom’s old wringer out of the garage. These people are crazy. A 20 minute wash, THAT CLEANS, or a front load that takes over an hour and the clothes are still dry.
I have Speed Queen and found they were about the only ones made in the USA when I was looking for new ones 7 years ago.
It’s called planned obsolescence.
HOW CAN THEY GET AWAY WITH THIS !!!!!!!!!!! UNELECTED JERKS ! excuse me for screaming; BTW I’m also tearing my hair out……….this isn’t the USA !!!!!! the administrative state has gone crazy
Follow the money.
Every single one of these new regulations is only so the insider trading politicians can reap millions by knowing where to invest their ill gotten gains.
C’mon Congress do your job!
The point is…….. why is congress telling you how to do your laundry?????
Exactly
To add insult to injury, she has ears that can pick up sounds from fifteen galaxies away. I hate being talked down to – especially by someone that is obviously stupid herself but thinks it’s everyone else that’s stupid. Mexico a green energy leader?? Delusional much?? Has she ever even been to Mexico? She wouldn’t say that if she’d ever been there! I have, hundreds of times, and it certainly hasn’t improved with age! Mexico is a mess and the government tiptoes around because the cartels are the ones actually running the place and have been for as long as I can remember.
She means that Mexico is a God-foresaken hot as hades desert that would be ideal for carpeting with solar panels … thousands and thousands of square miles of solar panels.
Yes, she’s an idiot
Mexican people don’t need or want the green energy scam! They know democrats caused the world’s high inflation. Fossil fuels are the future!!
Mexican people don’t need or want the green energy scam!
Why are they coming here then?????
Mexico is a mess??? Look in the mirror dear! You need to get eduuucated
Yeah, the US is looking more like Mexico and the third world every year.
Whenever I see the word “stakeholders,” I know I am being fed a bunch of BS and my wallet is being raided.
I am going to keep saying it until proven otherwise – Democrats are a cult!
Granholm starts her tweet claiming “here are some facts” and then proceeds to list speculations on what COULD happen.
Allow me to retort: Or not.
Making ordinary people miserable is the point. People who are shivering, hungry, footsore, frightened and squinting into the darkness are easy to bully, easy to dominate, easy to control. Evil leaders will burn down a paradise in order to rule over the ashes.
It also makes the mandarin-class of bureaucrats and functionaries easier to bribe. Look at North Korea. Mid-tier NK elites live lives of far less prosperity than lower-middleclass people in any western country. But they are far better fed, housed, clothed and secured than ordinary North Koreans. They only see their relative advantage above their countrymen and it makes them fanatically loyal to the regime.
Of course they are going to try to destroy certain industries and subsidize others. How else will they create insider-trading opportunities to boost their investment portfolios? Granholm is expert at that.
It’s supposed to come into effect in 2029.
GOOD!!! I’m in my 80’s. I’ll be dead…
I am so annoyed with everything GND.
I have been trying to get some of my states elected officials to put the brakes on the one of the building codes the GND proponents want to push. They want to require low energy efficient windows in all new and replacement installations. There may be some who think there is a benefit to them, but I am not one of those people. I despise these windows. Both me and my neighbor have the new LOW E Argon filled windows. His are reflecting sun light, when we have sun light, on to my house and causing the siding to melt. My windows do not do that to his house. I personally do not think they do as advertise and find that I need to turn my heater on earlier in the fall than when I had regular double panes. The regular double pane let so much sunlight in the house that it was always warm. It could be 30 degrees outside, and I could open the curtains and my front door and let the sunlight stream in the windows and storm door, and it would hold a very comfortable 70 with the heater set on 68.
Then again it could be my imagination and it is really colder in my house because I have not seen the sun or blue skies more then 20 days if even 20 in the last 5-6 months.
I despise these people pushing this GND and am almost ready to believe that they are all aliens who want to destroy the earth to make it more conducive to their way of life.
I will never give up my old storm windows. Almost break my fingers every year opening to drop the screens but they are wonderful.
Shape shifting lizard people terraforming earth and eradicating the native population. Tucker even talks about ETs now. Maybe not such a far out concept anymore. True or not, it makes for good fiction writing, lol. It’s one of the leading plots in my Machine Messiah series.
This nonsense will continue until a majority of voters begin personally suffering from it. Regulations with compliance requirements that are 5 or more years into the future are largely ignored in the present. People must be irritatingly aggrieved to induce them to rebel.
I am hopeful that the entire GND will be no more than historical humor if this administration is kicked to the curb. If the election is again stolen, we will have to wait for consumers’ pain and suffering to effect the successful backlash that honest voting could not.
Bingo! People will pay attention when they feel the pain. That’s why the coup plotters/globalists are boiling the frog slowly.
just more lies and b.s. … ( summed up in four words … )
Energy prices won’t go down either. You will pay more and have less. None of this has to do with the environment. If it did we wouldn’t have globalism or mass recolonization(called immigration ) of our country.
My propane bill went down 4 %. In Mexico . Gracias Dios!!
Instead of colonizing the Moon or Mars the globalists decided to colonize their countries with low IQ indigent third worlders and impoverish the planet.
Notice her use of the weasel word, “could.”
Just one more thing for the Trump administration for roll back!
Idiots all
I’m seriously tired of calling these people insane. Mexico, who gives a ChickenKrap about Mexico.
Guaranty you! I will be hitting up garage sales and craigslist for some backups, fans freezers washers drys and the like. You keep your junk, you bug eyed lunatics. Just like those EV’s no one is buying!
I do!!! I’m married to a beautiful Yucateca. In Mexico. Gracias Dios
I hate Congress. They are a nutless, ovaryless collection of leeches that hate us. They don’t pass laws; they pass Enabling Acts, just like the German Reichstag did as Germany collapsed. We all know what that led to.
The time is coming, perhaps sooner, perhaps later, when people will choose sides. It will make 1861 look like a walk in the park.
We’re in Southern California. SoCal Edison is our electric service.
Last month we used less than 900 KwH…. which is extremely good for a 5b/3ba home…. all of our appliances are “Energy Compliant”…. most of our lighting is LEDs… etc, etc….
The bill.
$450.
Yep, folks, that’s right. less than 900 KwH, $450. And that was within our baseline… meaning we did not go into the “inefficient”…
Last year, about this month, we got charged that much…. it was some sort of a surcharge because of rising energy costs… then the people got angry, the news media had to do something, reported it and then by March 23 the electric bill dropped.
But stealthily, they changed the rates… so for the last two months, the bill has been $450… and there’s NO surcharge for energy costs… it is… doubled what it was last year.
Since damned FJB took over.. our electric bill has TRIPLED.
And the Mainstream Propaganda Machine is quiet about it.
I found out today at the PO that soon we will have to pay a tax up front for any items we ship to a foreign country, the foreign country will get the tax money. I asked three times for that to be repeated. The Post Master said everything is changing.
Consumers are getting screwed every which way. We live in such good times.
We live in such
goodinteresting times.Personally I think it is more like evil times.
It’s from that old Asian curse: “May you live in interesting times.”
Fridge/Freezer/Fan regulations. The three “F”s. And F is the sixth letter of the alphabet.
Hmmmm………. FFF = 666 ? What a coincidence.
It’s not a coincidence.
They had to make this play because they know that there are only so many electrons available for charging, and each electron devoted to an appliance is one fewer electron available for a battery-powered EV.
Speed Queen clothes washers and dryers are made in the USA.
I have a Speed Queen top-load washing machine. It works fine.
Speed Queen doesn’t have to follow ridiculous regulations regarding water use, so their machines work ok.
I don’t know why they don’t have to follow those regulations. Something about where their machines are sold. Hopefully other companies can get around unworkable regulations also.
Majority of their machines used to be sold to commercial laundromats where they see as much abuse as use. Pretty sure they still build the homeowner machines with the same heavy components as the commercial ones. They’re a bit pricey up front, but then again you only buy them once, not over and over again with costly repairs.
Bush is responsible for the light bulbs that don’t work. And, of course, Nixon created the EPA.
Did Nixon create the EPA all by himself, or was it thrust upon him as legislation he must sign as a compromise to fulfill his other goals?
Hummm…. it may be time for states to start considering an updated version of the “Principles Of Nullification.”
I followed the DOE link to their Appliance and Equipment Standards Program webpage and it claims $2T in savings by 2030. Sounds super impressive, right? Well, check my math because it says that is since 1987 and I figured there are 150M households so $2 trillion in savings over 43 years is $0.31 per household by my calculations. Seems something is off?
Oh, to go back to the ice house days & get a block of ice put in my Red Wagon & pulling it back home.
All because my mom forgot to put the “ICE” sign in the window & the ice man didn’t deliver if sign not displayed.
And hearing someone call out, “Remember the Johnstown Flood” if the water pan from melting ice wasn’t emptied.
Now, in these days of green BS, I’m told I can’t have a refrigerator/freezer of my choice, but must buy a government approved “upgraded” model?
The Globalists trying to screw us should take their comedy act on the road – somewhere in Antarctica. No problem with fridges, freezers & no generators, but they wouldn’t care if any money’s to be made
Have they calculated the storage area on electric powered jetliners for the extension cords needed for in-flight recharges?
Or on fighter jets that go slower, still armed to the last rivet, but not emitting as much dirty air?
May Red Wagons resurface before we let these scum do more damage!
Leave Mexico alone. Just sent the electric Abram Tanks to Ukraine already! The Democrats must be crazy.
Sounds like all the jobs for this “clean energy” would be going to Mexico
This ‘deadline’ of 2029 or 2030 is beyond laughable. It is the height of hubris for these ‘planners’ to think that their plans will still be accepted 6 years from now. This entire system will blow up well before that.
Granholm has that “Liz Warren” look about her. Kind of makes me want to stare at a welding arc to heal my eyes.
Meghan Rapinoe-look.
She wants to run Mexico, too?
As my buddy Jonathan once sang, “She can’t even run her own life, I’ll be damned if she runs mine!””
All lies, all the time.
Climate change, or whatever the hell they call it now, is fake.
Act accordingly.
Yes, this is all a sham. WE have plastic recycling in my town but they want you to rinse out the plastic containers. AND we just recently, like 2 weeks ago were under a mandatory water conservation restriction, till it just rained heavy twice. SO, we are supposed to waste water rinsing plastic containers out… Typical government logic.
So, we are supposed to be in compliance in 5 years from now? Not enough garage sales to fit the bill $$$.
Just another ape playing with matches atop a petrol dump.
Bugs don’t require refrigeration silly Sundance.