Dems Prove It's Not About the Environment; It's All Theater

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Posted on 01/08/2025 7:49:41 AM PST by Red Badger

Recently President Biden and some Democrat-controlled states have taken what they claim are decisive steps to combat climate change.

But in the end, it was all nonsense, hypocrisy, and wasteful spending — with taxpayers picking up the tab.

The Biden administration put the final touches on a new regulation that will ban most types of domestic water heaters that use natural gas.

Under the new regulations, approximately 40% of the tankless water heaters in production today would be banned by the year 2029 and replaced with less efficient models.

The Department of Energy claims that the new regulations will reduce carbon dioxide emissions. However, natural gas is one of the cleanest fossil fuels in existence, and the regulation will increase consumer costs.

Although the new rule was made on Dec. 26, it was done quietly, with no press release to accompany it as is standard. It wasn’t until The Washington Free Beacon reported on it Jan. 3 that it became public.

Consumer are penalized in the end, affecting low-income households the most.

"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 (CEI), told the Washington Free Beacon. "It bans an entire category of tankless water heaters and the ones that are most affordable."

But the administration wasn’t finished.

On Monday the president banned offshore drilling of oil and gas in most federal waters.

This was just the latest of more than 200 actions Biden has taken to limit the oil and gas industry, according to Ron Ness, president of the North Dakota Petroleum Council.

"As American consumers we should all be very concerned, they take massive areas just off limits, taking those decisions out of states,” said Ness.

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1 posted on 01/08/2025 7:49:41 AM PST by Red Badger

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