by WorldTribune Staff / 247 Real News January 5, 2025
In a move made the day after Christmas in relative secrecy, the Biden-Harris administration banned most natural gas-powered instantaneous water heaters, a report said.
The Department of Energy formally published the new rules on Dec. 26 but did not issue a press release, which is seen as a departure from past appliance regulations, the Washington Free Beacon reported on Jan. 3.
As a result of the new regulations imposed by the Biden-Harris regime, consumers will pay $450 more on average when purchasing new water heaters, the report cited an industry analyst as saying.
The move “will impact low-income and senior households, which are most reliant on the models targeted by the Department of Energy,” the report said.
The regulations will apply to instantaneous water heaters, of which there are two types: non-condensing and condensing. The rules hike efficiency requirements to a threshold that only condensing models can meet, effectively banning the cheaper but less efficient non-condensing models, the report said.
As a result, after the rules are fully implemented in late 2029, consumers will be forced to buy pricier models or cheaper non-instantaneous storage tank water heaters. Tank water heaters are less efficient than the models being banned by the Biden-Harris administration.
“It’s one more example of an appliance regulation that raises costs and reduces choices,” Ben Lieberman, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told the Free Beacon. “It bans an entire category of tankless water heaters and the ones that are most affordable.”
“This is all part of the climate change agenda,” Lieberman continued. “One of the things we see is an antipathy towards natural gas versions of appliances because natural gas is a fossil fuel and they want to electrify everything. When you see bad regulations from the Biden administration, usually it has something to do with climate change.”
The Energy Department claims the move is expected to help the climate by curbing carbon dioxide emissions.
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to roll back a wide swath of the climate regulations issued under Joe Biden in an effort to boost energy production and drive economic growth.
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