EPA Wants Gov't To Control How Cold Your Beer Can Be

[Wehrwolfen]

July 5, 2013 | IBD EDITORIALS

Regulation: No longer the stuff of science fiction, a little-noticed change in energy-efficiency requirements for appliances could lead to government controlling the power used in your home and how you set your thermostat. In a seemingly innocuous revision of its Energy Star efficiency requirements announced June 27, the Environmental Protection Agency included an "optional" requirement for a "smart-grid" connection for customers to electronically connect their refrigerators or freezers with a utility provider. The feature lets the utility provider regulate the appliances' power consumption, "including curtailing operations during more expensive peak-demand times." So far, manufacturers are not required to include the...

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EPA Pushes Smart-Grid Connections For Refrigerators To Control Energy - Investors.com

Will Obama's EPA take that one fatal step? Taking a man's cold beer is going too far.

 

[Pop23]

July 5, 2013 | IBD EDITORIALS

Regulation: No longer the stuff of science fiction, a little-noticed change in energy-efficiency requirements for appliances could lead to government controlling the power used in your home and how you set your thermostat. In a seemingly innocuous revision of its Energy Star efficiency requirements announced June 27, the Environmental Protection Agency included an "optional" requirement for a "smart-grid" connection for customers to electronically connect their refrigerators or freezers with a utility provider. The feature lets the utility provider regulate the appliances' power consumption, "including curtailing operations during more expensive peak-demand times." So far, manufacturers are not required to include the...

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Read more:
EPA Pushes Smart-Grid Connections For Refrigerators To Control Energy - Investors.com

Will Obama's EPA take that one fatal step? Taking a man's cold beer is going too far.

Them's fighten words

Gonna get me a gun after I have a few more brewskis.

 

[OKTexas]

This is exactly why people should fight the installation of smart meters. Also they have not been proven safe and have started house fires when power is remotely reconnected through the meters. Many utilities will also sell your usage habits to third parties.

 

[rightwinger]

Bout time......nothing worse than a beer slurpee

 

[Duped]

This is exactly why people should fight the installation of smart meters. Also they have not been proven safe and have started house fires when power is remotely reconnected through the meters. Many utilities will also sell your usage habits to third parties.

They are persistent ; had to decline three times thus far!

 

[OKTexas]

This is exactly why people should fight the installation of smart meters. Also they have not been proven safe and have started house fires when power is remotely reconnected through the meters. Many utilities will also sell your usage habits to third parties.

They are persistent ; had to decline three times thus far!

We are fighting them on several fronts here in TX, some states have a fee free opt out, if you can't get them banned outright that would be the next best thing.

 

[R.C. Christian]

Eventually you'll just end up in jail if you fight them.

 

[Political Junky]

Blame Nixon for the EPA.

 

[blackhawk]

Messing with my gun is one thing start fucking with the temperature of my beer and the fight is on.

 

[thereisnospoon]

July 5, 2013 | IBD EDITORIALS

Regulation: No longer the stuff of science fiction, a little-noticed change in energy-efficiency requirements for appliances could lead to government controlling the power used in your home and how you set your thermostat. In a seemingly innocuous revision of its Energy Star efficiency requirements announced June 27, the Environmental Protection Agency included an "optional" requirement for a "smart-grid" connection for customers to electronically connect their refrigerators or freezers with a utility provider. The feature lets the utility provider regulate the appliances' power consumption, "including curtailing operations during more expensive peak-demand times." So far, manufacturers are not required to include the...

[Excerpt]

Read more:
EPA Pushes Smart-Grid Connections For Refrigerators To Control Energy - Investors.com

Will Obama's EPA take that one fatal step? Taking a man's cold beer is going too far.

This idea has been around for a while now. The people kicking this around have not been able to make it politically palatable.
The way this government is run, they would do just about anything as long as they can if politically, they could get away with it.

 

[Wehrwolfen]

Bout time......nothing worse than a beer slurpee

I like them better than warm beer in the summer.

 

[Pete7469]

Blame Nixon for the EPA.

We do.

RINOs are to blame for "compromising" with a lot of insipid leftist assholes and enacting laws that have destroyed the republic.

Bed wetters like you decry our unwillingness to relinquish our freedom for bullshit causes.

You call us "tea baggers, racists, bigots, homophobes and even Nazis", though history shows you moonbats are everything you're programmed to hate.

 

[Wehrwolfen]

Blame Nixon for the EPA.

Don't go blaming Nixon. The EPA gave America Cleaner water, better use of landfills, and cleaner air quality. Everything was going well with the EPA until Obama was elected. The EPA was never designed to be a cudgel over manufacturing or the people. Obama has created this monster. RTW I worked in the corporate world as a Regulatory Compliance Specialist.

 

[Little-Acorn]

If my fridge warms up while I'm at work, the food spoils and I don't know about it, and it's cool again by the time I get home, and I get food poisoning...

...where do I apply for compensation from the people running this "Smart Grid"?

And, BTW, what is the address and phone number of their competitor so I can switch providers if I don't like the service I'm getting from these clowns?

 

[asaratis]

Bout time......nothing worse than a beer slurpee

I like them better than warm beer in the summer.

In Germany, warm beer is preferred....but this ain't Germany!

So, I suppose the real lovers of a nice cold beer will have to go back to icing them down in coolers. I wonder just how many ice makers will be sold...and their efficiency is likely less than that of a refrigerator....especially if they're emptied daily to ice down the beer.

Ima get me one tomorrow!

 

[Troubled_CA]

The proper title is:



Cause being energy efficient is SO evil!

You all seem to ignore that this is an agenda driven OPINION piece?

was there any link to the EPA regulation?

Doesn't take much to drive cons into hysteria.

The Sky is Falling! The Sky is Falling!

bunch of whiners.

 

[asaratis]

The proper title is:



Cause being energy efficient is SO evil!

You all seem to ignore that this is an agenda driven OPINION piece?

was there any link to the EPA regulation?

Doesn't take much to drive cons into hysteria.

The Sky is Falling! The Sky is Falling!

bunch of whiners.

You do realize that liberalism is an agenda driven, emotional cult, don't you? Well...maybe not. You've likely been duped by the dear leader and his henchmen.

 

[Wehrwolfen]

The proper title is:



Cause being energy efficient is SO evil!

You all seem to ignore that this is an agenda driven OPINION piece?

was there any link to the EPA regulation?

Doesn't take much to drive cons into hysteria.

The Sky is Falling! The Sky is Falling!

bunch of whiners.

If you had read the full article you would have seen the reference to the EPA Energy Star Program. in any case, you can go to www.EPA.gov/Energy Star Program. It's free, that should turn you on.

 

[Annie]

Blame Nixon for the EPA.

Don't go blaming Nixon. The EPA gave America Cleaner water, better use of landfills, and cleaner air quality. Everything was going well with the EPA until Obama was elected. The EPA was never designed to be a cudgel over manufacturing or the people. Obama has created this monster. RTW I worked in the corporate world as a Regulatory Compliance Specialist.

While I agree that Obama has been guilty of using the EPA for both targeting folks, (much like IRS was used), especially with energy companies the abuses didn't start with this administration:

Acknowledging the well intentioned and even achieved successes of Great Lakes and other issues:

When Did the EPA Jump the Shark? | RedState

When Did the EPA Jump the Shark?
A cautionary tale about bureaucracy and mission creep.

By: Steve Maley (Diary) | December 10th, 2011

Iron Eyes Cody cried at the sight of polluted waters and skies in a famous public service announcement, first aired in 1971. Old Iron Eyes may have been a faux-Indian, but his message resonated with people. The Crying Indian PSA was one of the most successful ever.

It resonated because it was true. In the early ’70s, the environment was a mess. Urban skies were noticeably tinged in sepia/grey. Rivers and streams were often clogged with discarded debris and fouled with chemical sludge.

April 1970 saw the first Earth Day. In December of the same year, the Environmental Protection Agency was born.

The Clean Air Act was passed in 1970, with the Clean Water Act to follow in 1972. 1973 brought the Endangered Species Act. [Note: see comments. The Fish & Wildlife Service & NOAA are the lead ESA agencies, with EPA in a support role. I stand corrected. Ed.]

Gradually, the environment improved. The bald eagle and the American alligator came back from the brink of extinction. Air quality improved, there was less litter, and the phosphate foam disappeared from streams.

And, rightly or wrongly, EPA got the credit. As the hippies of my generation greyed, they remembered their Earth Day Groove-In fondly.

Fast forward to 2011: the EPA has become a stifling, job-killing bureaucracy. What happened? When did the EPA jump the shark?

EPA takes credit for cleaning the air of Six Principal Pollutants: Lead, Carbon Monoxide, Ozone, Pariculate Matter, Sulfur Dioxide, Nitrogen Dioxide.

The snail darter and the spotted owl were harbingers. The 1.6 gallon-per-flush toilet brought the EPA into the Inner Sanctum of the average American’s home; in 1994, it should have been our clarion call.

In California, restrictions on brush-clearing favor the kangaroo rat’s habitat over humans’ habitations. In West Texas, a 3-inch lizard threatens to shut down oil drilling.

Beyond the Endangered Species Trump Card, the EPA keeps expanding its purview. The alphabet-soup of CERCLA and other Superfund-related legislation has benefited legions of environmental attorneys and consultants with precious little progress in cleaning up actual pollution. Under President Clinton’s Executive Order, the EPA made an issue of “environmental justice”, based on the anecdotal observation that oil refineries, landfills and chemical plants tend not to be built near posh neighborhoods and country clubs. Frustrated by inaction on Anthropogenic Global Warming, EPA expanded the definition of “pollutant” to cover carbon dioxide, which we exhale and green plants depend on for life. EPA has pushed to set acceptable urban ozone levels lower than the natural levels in Yellowstone Park.

But if commercial or property interests push back as the EPA expands its scope, they are characterized as “anti-environment”, without a critical look at the value of the regulation. The public in general is supportive of “the environment”, which translates into popular support of the EPA. Few are interested in cost/benefit analyses or even common sense.

But this screed is less an indictment of the EPA in particular than it is an indictment of bureaucracy in general. The problem is that budget growth is structurally built into the system. “Draconian budget cuts” are in fact decreases in a previously-projected rate of growth, not true cuts. Anything that grows at an annual rate of 8% doubles in size in just nine years. By not exercising fiscal restraint, meaning zero-based budgeting, weak politicians tacitly accept “mission creep”.

The bureaucracies have grown too large, too complex and too arrogant to accept Congressional oversight. They have expropriated legislative authority with “rulemaking”, and they enforce the laws as they see fit.

It’s not just the EPA, it’s virtually every branch of the government.

It’s killing our freedom and our prosperity.

We need conservative leaders with the cojones to stop it.

 

[Politico]

Gotta draw a line somewhere. And cold beer is it damn SOBs.