From ceiling fans to refrigerators, the Department of Energy is updating appliance efficiency standards that would affect millions of consumers.
The Biden administration’s goal is to reduce climate-warming greenhouse gasses and save Americans billions of dollars a year in utility costs. But the administration is facing pushback from the natural gas industry, because some new standards would affect gas appliances. Conservative politicians and media have taken notice of the measures, too, and they’ve now made unsexy, technical appliance standards a flashpoint in the country’s culture war.
Well, it’s awful hard to stay on the side of progress and economic development when the social system you stand for lost the ability to deliver either over 100 years ago.
I remember reading about a man who actively understood/acknowledged that Trump was a liar and a criminal, but continued to vote for him because it felt good.
When for everyone one person that wants progress there is another that actively goes against them, and cannot or will not listen to reason; yes it is difficult to stay on the side of progress.