Looking forward to using your air-conditioning
this summer to keep you from misery and lack of sleep? Well, you might have
some issues. You see, the Biden administration has declared war on comfort.
It’s not just gas stoves, leaf blowers, and lawnmowers the Biden-ites are
coming for. No siree. They are also
bound and determined to eventually make air-conditioning prohibitively
expensive for all but their coastal elite friends and allies.
New Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) regulations are limiting supplies of freon
and other refrigerants, because they are allegedly contributors to “climate
change.” The new production quotas have driven up the price of these
refrigerants by about 300%, meaning that a recharge may cost $100 to
$500 more than before these regulations took effect, depending on how much
replacement refrigerant is needed.
But wait, there’s more! The coolant quotas get even
more stringent next year. Moreover, other new EPA rules are directed at those
who service air conditioners. Some of these pertain to the types of containers
in which refrigerants can be housed and transported. And all of which are going
to impose additional costs that will need to be passed on to the consumer.
So, if you balk at the price of refilling or
repairing your air-conditioning unit this summer, perhaps you could consider
purchasing a new one. Unfortunately, Department
of Energy (DOE) efficiency standards will be piled on to the EPA measures,
and the combined effect of these excessively stringent requirements will be to
raise the price of new A/C equipment, as well.
If infants and the elderly and infirm
end up dying because they and their families can no longer afford
air-conditioning to cool their living and sleeping quarters—due to government
policies purportedly intended to fight “global warming”-- that would be
ironic as well as tragic.
It is one thing if the global average
temperature rises by, say, 1.5 degrees by the year 2100. It is quite another if
the temperature in one’s apartment jumps from, say, 72 to 92 in the course of
one year.
That would be real climate change.
But, hey, don’t sweat it.
And don’t lose your cool. The Biden
administration would rather take it from you.
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