Another parting Biden blow to American families: A war on water heaters

In a final (we hope) slam of regular Americans, Team Biden’s green crusaders just targeted yet another common household appliance: gas-fired tankless water heaters.Scheduled to kick in 2029, the new rule bans 40% of new water-heater models, forcing consumers to pay another $450 for electric alternatives that won’t work if the power goes out.This follows last year’s rule to effectively prohibit new non-condensing gas furnaces by 2028 — and raise consumer costs by over $900.It’s all in service to the green delusion that forcing Americans to rely on electric everything will somehow reduce carbon emissions — even though the US electric supply will remain every bit as dependent on burning fossil fuels for the foreseeable future.The growth in wind, solar and other “alternatives” isn’t even enough to make up for growing electric demand.So these mandates won’t reduce emissions, as the Biden Energy Department pretends; they’ll just put new strains on the electric grid, increasing the chances of blackouts when none of the new appliances will work.Bonus: The rush to the “green transition” makes it more likely the power will go out in winter by increasing the cold-weather peak demand.The water-heater ban is also particularly cruel to working-class families, the poor and seniors: Tankless models are most common in apartments or smaller housing spaces, whose residents are typically low-income people.And senior citizens are at added risk from the cold; this rule imperils lives.

All in all, the Alliance for Consumers estimates that Biden-era rules for home hardware (including dishwashers, laundry machines etc.) has imposed $9,000 in new costs on the average family, while also sticking us with “modern” machines that take hours longer to do the job.And while Team Trump may be able to reverse some of these mandates, those of us in blue states like New York are still at the mercy of the same agenda: Gov.Kathy Hochul’s waging her own war on gas heat, st...