In its final days, the Biden administration drops new water-heater ban

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First, they came for the natural gas stoves, and I did not speak out because I did not have a gas stove.

Hold on…

Didn’t I write this article before?

But now, it’s water heaters.

Under the policy, new non-condensing, natural gas-fired water heaters will be prohibited for sale starting in 2029 due to concerns about carbon-dioxide emissions. The policy comes during President Biden’s twilight days in the White House and was quietly announced without a press release.

If the policy takes effect, as it is slated to on March 11, a little less than 40% of the tankless water heaters currently on the market would be banned, according to an estimate from the Appliance Standards Awareness Project.

In addition, the policy says that all tankless non-condensing water heaters will have to rely on 13% less energy than condensing water heaters (an impossible standard with current technology).

Here’s what that means.

Your standard hot water heater is a tank that pre-heats water so it is ready on demand. As you can imagine, keeping a tank of hot water warm takes constant energy.

In recent years, tankless systems, which warm water on-demand by passing through heated coils, have become popular. Biden’s ban takes aim at the cheapest of these energy-efficient models (ones that don’t recirculate exhaust to save energy), which could force many Americans to choose less energy efficient options!

If you check your local hardware stores, you’ll note that a non-condensing water heater runs about $800 less than a condensing water heater.

Tankless technology is frequently used in smaller apartments or housing spaces, which means that a lot of lower-income and elderly people tend to use those types of water heaters.

‘Forcing low-income and senior customers to pay far more upfront is particularly concerning. DOE’s decision to go ahead with a flawed final rule is deeply disappointing,’ Matthew Agen, the American Gas Association’s chief counsel for energy, said.

Why do this new breed of liberals hate poor people so much?

‘When the rule goes into effect, all that manufacturing will basically be irrelevant,’ Frank Windsor, president of Rinnai America, a water heater manufacturer, told the outlet.

‘A lot of the major equipment that we’ve invested in will basically have to be scrapped.’

Rinnai had just finished up a roughly $70 million factory in Georgia to produce non-condensing gas water heaters in the US.