In 1997, then-EPA head Carol Browner responded to complaints that the EPA was pushing such strict air pollution rules that eventually, barbecue grills would be targeted:
“I am disappointed that some have chosen to distort this important discussion,” Browner told a Senate panel that year, “by raising distracting and misleading pseudo-issues like ‘banning backyard barbecues.'”
Well, it’s 2015, and now the EPA is looking to regulate grills to become more “environmentally correct.”
And now, this:
Via Daily Caller: Rep. Blackburn To Obama: Keep Your Hands Off Our Appliances
The Obama administration is trying to regulate our ceiling fans after attacking light bulbs and wood stoves, and Rep. Marsha Blackburn is pushing back.
The Tennessee Republican has been pushing against Department of Energy regulations mandating energy efficiency requirements on ceiling fans and natural gas furnaces….
“Just like stretching their tentacles into light bulbs and so many other areas of our home, what they are doing is pricing people out of the ceiling fan market,” Blackburn told House lawmakers Thursday. Blackburn co-sponsored an amendment to defund the DOE’s ceiling fan energy efficiency regulations on ceiling fans passed by voice vote in the House last night.
“Just like stretching their tentacles into light bulbs and so many other areas of our home, what they are doing is pricing people out of the ceiling fan market,” Blackburn told House lawmakers Thursday….
In the past year, the DOE has finalized 10 different energy efficiency standards, culminating with standards on fluorescent lamps and commercial ice makers….
The DOE also proposed efficiency standards for fake fireplaces. These standards are projected to save consumers $165 over the lifespan of the average hearth and reduce carbon emissions by 11.1 million metric tons through 2030….
weird, I thought environmentalists wanted us all using ceiling fans instead of air conditioning. I can’t keep up.
Yeah, ceiling fans had a role in energy conservation pushing heated air back into the living space. Circulating air could reduce the use of AC in summer. Administration bureaucrats probably get mesmerized staring at them going round and round and think they are a waste of electricity.
Could be going after high ceilings.
Next, irons! Anything that gives us warmth & comfort, they will “mark” with new standards to make these things a lot more expensive. Will we ever be rid of these liberals!
BTW, the iron reference was in deference to our Shifra.
LOL !