To save 1.5 billionths of 1% of the CO2 in the atmosphere.
is going to cost us how many billions of dollars?
Onerous New DOE Regulations Headed Our Way
F. SwemsonThe Department of Energy
announced Thursday that it has finalized the new and higher energy efficiency standards for several classes of appliances which they decided upon last year. Those standards can be found here.
Warning! Keep your seat belts on, this is going to be a bumpy ride.
The announcement from DOE Secretary Steven Chu says that these changes will save 164 Million Metric Tons of CO2, from entering the atmosphere due to our use of more efficient electrical appliances.
Damn that's a lot of CO2............. Or is it?
There's a total of roughly 800Gt (Gigatons) (798Gt actually) of CO2 in our atmosphere, of which roughly 27Gt comes from man's activities.
164M (Million) Mt (Metric Tons) over 10 years = 16.4MMt per year = 1.6% of 1Gt = 1.5 billionths of 1% of the atmosphere every year.
And this is going to cost us how many billions of dollars?
What's actually going to happen is that anyone who tries to sell their home is going to need to replace that perfectly good water heater, and lots of other electrical devices in their homes in order to legally sell their home.
What was that you said?
If that last sentence surprises you, then you're not aware of the fact that the Obama administration is planning to force us to register our homes, just like our cars, and get them inspected by an authorized agent of the DOE in order to get an "Inspection Label" for the home.
And if that's not enough, it's not just about water heaters, or home heaters either:
"Since President Barack Obama came to office, the DOE has issued or codified new efficiency standards for more than twenty different products, which will save consumers between $250 and $300 billion on their energy bills through 2030:
March 2009 - 14 consumer and commercial products with standards prescribed in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA 2007), including dishwashers, general service incandescent lamps and residential clothes washers
April 2009 - Microwaves, kitchen ranges and ovens
July 2009 - General service fluorescent lamps and incandescent reflector lamps
July 2009 - Commercial heating, air-conditioning and water-heating equipment
August 2009 - Beverage vending machines
December 2009 - Commercial clothes washers
February 2010 - Small electric motors
March 2010 - Residential water heaters, direct heating equipment and pool heaters"
Watch out for the second to the last item listed above, because almost every electrical device you use has a "small electric motor" inside.
When you add the value of the millions of perfectly good appliances that are going to wind up on the trash heap, to the other costs of this bill, you'll realize how damaging this is going to be to our country.
GE’s Jeffrey Immelt must be licking his chops!
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