Re: Biden admin moving forward with light bulb bans in coming weeks

On 2023-04-02, That idiot Biden <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 27 Feb 2022, PaxPerPoten <[email protected]> posted some
> news:[email protected]: 
>
>> The country is falling apart and Biden bans lightbulbs.
>
> The Biden administration is preparing to implement a sweeping nationwide 
> ban on commonly used light bulbs as part of its energy efficiency and 
> climate agenda.
>
> The regulations, which prohibit retailers from selling incandescent light 
> bulbs, were finalized by the Department of Energy (DOE) in April 2022 and 
> are slated to go into effect on Aug. 1, 2023. The DOE will begin full 
> enforcement of the ban on that date, but it has already urged retailers to 
> begin transitioning away from the light bulb type and, in recent months, 
> begun issuing warning notices to companies.
>
> "The lighting industry is already embracing more energy efficient 
> products, and this measure will accelerate progress to deliver the best 
> products to American consumers and build a better and brighter future," 
> Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said last year.
>
> According to the DOE announcement, the regulations will save consumers an 
> estimated $3 billion per year on utility bills and cut carbon emissions by 
> 222 million metric tons over the next three decades.
>
> BIDEN ADMIN CRACKS DOWN ON AIR CONDITIONERS AS WAR ON APPLIANCES CONTINUES
>
> Under the rules, incandescent and similar halogen light bulbs will be 
> prohibited in favor of light-emitting diode, or LED, alternatives. While 
> U.S. households have increasingly switched to LED light bulbs since 2015, 
> fewer than half of households reported using mostly or exclusively LEDs, 
> according to the most recent results from the Residential Energy 
> Consumption Survey.
>
> Overall, 47% use mostly or only LEDs, 15% use mostly incandescent or 
> halogens, and 12% use mostly or all compact fluorescent (CFL), with 
> another 26% reporting no predominant bulb type, the federal data showed. 
> In December, the DOE introduced separate rules banning CFL bulbs, paving 
> the way for LEDs to be the only legal light bulbs to purchase.
>
> BIDEN ADMIN'S WAR ON HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES WILL CAUSE HIGHER PRICES, 
> DIRTIER CLOTHES AND DISHES, EXPERTS WARN
>
> According to the survey data, LEDs are also far more popular in higher-
> income households, meaning the energy regulations will particularly impact 
> lower-income Americans. While 54% of households with an income of more 
> than $100,000 per year used LEDs, just 39% of households with an income of 
> $20,000 or less used LEDs.
>
> "We believe that further regulatory interference in the marketplace is 
> unwarranted given that more energy efficient lighting choices, namely 
> light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs, are already available for those 
> consumers who prefer them over incandescent bulbs," a coalition of free 
> market and consumer groups opposed to incandescent bulb bans wrote in a 
> comment letter to the DOE last year.
>
> "While LEDs are more efficient and generally longer-lasting than 
> incandescent bulbs, they currently cost more than incandescent bulbs and 
> are inferior for certain functions such as dimming," the letter continued. 
> "Consumers are best served by retaining the choice between incandescent 
> bulbs and LEDs rather than regulating incandescent bulbs off the market."
>
> The groups added that estimates of the climate benefits of energy 
> efficiency rules are "speculative, assumption-driven, and prone to bias in 
> the hands of agencies with a regulatory agenda."
>
> The DOE's rule in April 2022, meanwhile, reversed a Trump administration 
> rule that sought to protect incandescent light bulbs and allow consumers 
> to choose which products they want to purchase. Former President Donald 
> Trump was also personally opposed to LED light bulb adoption, remarking in 
> 2019 that they are often more expensive, not good and make him "look 
> orange."
>
> Environmental groups that opposed the Trump administration's actions, have 
> cheered the Biden administration for cracking down on incandescent light 
> bulbs.
>
> "We are long overdue to phase out inefficient old-fashioned light bulbs as 
> this progress was illegally delayed by the Trump administration for more 
> than two years. LED bulbs, which will replace the old incandescents, use 
> one-sixth the amount of energy to deliver the same amount of light and 
> last at least 10 times longer," said Joe Vukovich, an energy efficiency 
> advocate at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
>
> Over the last several months, the DOE has introduced a series of energy 
> efficiency regulations impacting various home appliances including gas 
> stoves, ovens, clothes washers, refrigerators and air conditioners. 
> Critics have blasted the rules as federal overreach and unnecessary given 
> that the industry has improved technology without government intervention.
>
> On his first day in office in January 2021, President Biden signed an 
> executive order requiring the DOE to make "major revisions" to current 
> appliance regulation standards and standards set by the Trump 
> administration. A month later, the agency began moving forward on more 
> than a dozen energy efficiency rules, impacting a wide range of 
> appliances.
>
><https://news.yahoo.com/biden-admin-moving-forward-light-165445494.html>

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