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This one’ll really make your blood boil: with either remarkable tone-deafness or a haughty contempt for the people it’s supposed to be serving, the Biden regime chose some of the hottest days of this summer (and if the climate propaganda is to be believed, some of the hottest days in human history) to announce plans to restrict the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are used in refrigerators and air conditioners. If the regime’s high-handedness and authoritarianism don’t already have you in a sweat, just wait.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Tuesday that it was “issuing a final rule to implement a 40% reduction below historic levels from 2024 through 2028.” So if you’re keeping cool these days with your air conditioner set at a certain temperature, be prepared for our moral superiors to force you, on pain of who knows what, to turn it up significantly. And you won’t be sweating out just this summer alone: “The rule aligns with the bipartisan American Innovation and Manufacturing (AIM) Act’s goals to reduce the production and consumption of these climate-damaging chemicals by 85% by 2036 and help avoid up to 0.5 °C of global warming by 2100.”
Bipartisan? Well, that’s another indication of how the establishment Republican hacks in Washington have failed the American people. If anyone in 2100 remembers what the EPA did Tuesday, he or she will have abundant evidence at hand to prove that reducing the use of these “climate-damaging chemicals” by 85% didn’t do a thing to avoid up to 0.5 °C of global warming because the whole thing was a hysterical and manipulative myth. All that cutting the use of refrigerators and air conditioners is going to do is make food spoil more quickly (well, you can always enjoy a heaping helping of bugs) and make Americans hot, sweaty, and crabby. The EPA might as well say that reducing the use of hydrofluorocarbons by 85% by 2036 will help us avoid a significant influx of witches.
And this is only just the beginning. As you no doubt expect, the Biden regime has much more pain for us in store. Joe Goffman, Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator of EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, announced happily: “This rulemaking is a critical next step in the Biden-Harris Administration’s ambitious plans to phase down climate super-pollutants and ensure the United States leads the way as countries around the world implement the Kigali Amendment.” The Kigali Amendment is an international agreement that obligates the signatory nations to work to reduce the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). Goffman adds: “The U.S. HFC phasedown program, bolstered by domestic innovation to develop alternative chemicals and equipment, is paving the way for the United States to tackle climate change and strengthen global competitiveness.”
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Pray Hard says
Come on down to Texas today, Joe Boy. We’ll turn the A/C off for ya.
PMK says
Someone turn off the AC in the White House and the Capitol.
Walter Sieruk says
Since that’s the way Joe Biden wants to have it, he should then serve as an example and remove all air conditioners from hi own privates mansions, As the one he has at Rehoboth beach
PRCS says
The goal is both a reduction in the use of Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and to replace their use with HFC alternatives.
While avoiding “up to 0.5 °C of global warming by 2100” by doing so is arguable, the idea of HFC alternatives in refrigeration and HVAC systems is worthy of consideration.
I’m not opposed to it, so long as it isn’t implemented like the poorly though out EV program.
TomD says
My new air conditioner uses propane. Lots of warnings on it about explosion and fire risks, so the poom-bahs can sleep at night.
Jerome from Layton says
Freon originally replaced ammonia as a refrigerant for safety reasons [toxicity, fire, corrosion]. Then came the great Ozone Hole [discovered in 1938, bye the way]. Then, along came HFCs which were supposed to solve that problem. So, now the replacements are various hydrocarbons [propane, butane, etc] that have also been identified as harmful to the environment. The Final Solution is the elimination of things that need air conditioning. Sucks if you are one of those things.
somehistory says
A physician in Florida made an air conditioner for his patients. Swamp coolers work in less humid climates, but in Florida, not so well. Humidity is often 100% and not raining.
the recent report that soon, the Southern states will be way too hot for living, and they want to take away air conditioning: take away gas stoves, and gasoline fueled cars. What do we “take away from all of this”? they are evil, corrupt, wicked, selfish, greedy, …
It’s all headed for those so-called “smart cities” which they already have some of in Scotland.
I don’t have a/c. I have open windows and fans. Works quite well on most days.
Jerome from Layton says
Malaria [bad air] was the problem, then air conditioning was the cure. That was about 100 years ago. What’s next?
JimJFox says
Hysterical article. HFCs are banned in sensible countries as equally effective alternatives exist. WTF is up with the USA?
Molly says
What more damage can this insipid mantis do, to destroy USA completely?