Led by President Donald Trump, U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright today announced the Department of Energy will postpone the implementation of seven of the Biden-Harris administration’s restrictive mandates on home appliances.
Devil’s advocate, because I do believe we should keep energy star, the high efficiency stuff is often less effective at it’s job. Sure, a water heater is a water heater. But low end and mid range HE dishwashers and clothes washers are less effective. Low flow toilets have more problems.
Energy star is absolutely worth it all told, but there is bad with the good.
Also, there’s no reason some of the the stuff should cost that much more. In a dishwasher, it’s putting in smaller pumps and a turbidity sensor.
I think it’s good to have some 3rd party organization, as in besides the manufacturer and consumer, imposing some restrictions that weed out companies that cut too many corners on engineering a product or are just low skilled at engineering things.
Like cars for example. The average mpg of cars has pretty much doubled in the last 15 or 20 years, which is insane for such a mature industry. They were forced to adapt and get creative by lawmakers making emissions requirements more strict. It shows that automakers could have been doing more in decades past.
It would be nice if the government wasn’t actually trying to squash efficiency. A third party could totally take it over and consumers that care would definitely purchase based on their badging.
Devil’s advocate, because I do believe we should keep energy star, the high efficiency stuff is often less effective at it’s job. Sure, a water heater is a water heater. But low end and mid range HE dishwashers and clothes washers are less effective. Low flow toilets have more problems.
Energy star is absolutely worth it all told, but there is bad with the good.
Also, there’s no reason some of the the stuff should cost that much more. In a dishwasher, it’s putting in smaller pumps and a turbidity sensor.
It’s because corporations, seeking profit, will find the absolute cheapest way to get the star.
Then consumers, seeking savings, buy the absolute cheapest option that has the level of superfluous features they can find.
You end up with refrigerators that can tweet, but the compressor grenades itself 2 week out of the 1 year warranty.
I think it’s good to have some 3rd party organization, as in besides the manufacturer and consumer, imposing some restrictions that weed out companies that cut too many corners on engineering a product or are just low skilled at engineering things.
Like cars for example. The average mpg of cars has pretty much doubled in the last 15 or 20 years, which is insane for such a mature industry. They were forced to adapt and get creative by lawmakers making emissions requirements more strict. It shows that automakers could have been doing more in decades past.
It would be nice if the government wasn’t actually trying to squash efficiency. A third party could totally take it over and consumers that care would definitely purchase based on their badging.