Biden’s latest target in his war on appliances: air conditioning units

Is there a war on appliances? Or is it a war on you?

I’d tell you to keep your cool, but that’s going to be hard when Team Biden takes away your air conditioner.

And the Biden administration certainly has an appetite for regulating household appliances in a way that seems calculated to make your life worse.

Many readers will remember the Biden team’s recent abortive effort to regulate gas stoves largely out of existence.

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm — later forced to admit she has a gas stove at home herself — proposed draconian gas-stove regulations in the name of “climate change” and a dubious scientific study connecting gas cooking and asthma.

She withdrew them in the face of massive public resistance.

People like their gas stoves, and a proposal that only electric cooking should be allowed sat poorly with people (like me) who had just experienced rolling electrical blackouts due to chilly weather.

(Gov. Kathy Hochul is still pushing ahead with her proposal to ban gas hook-ups in new buildings, however.)

Before that, the Energy Department had nixed Trump-era regulatory reforms designed to allow “quick” dishwashers, as well as similarly improved washers and dryers.

Want your dishes or clothes done in what used to be seen as a normal time? Forget it, peasants!

Now, in the latest episode of Team Biden’s “war on appliances,” the Energy Department has turned its attention to air conditioners, specifically room air conditioners of the sort used disproportionately by poor people, minorities and the elderly to keep cool in summer heat.

New energy-efficiency regulations promise to make these units more expensive for consumers and potentially less reliable and less effective at, you know, actually cooling things off. 

“What these standards do is enforce a level of efficiency that doesn’t make sense,” the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Ben Lieberman told Fox News Digital last week. “And they compromise product quality. We’ve already seen this to an extent with cost of clothes-washer standards.”

Read the full article on the New York Post.