I’m not really sure this is necessary. I know there was a time that I did, in fact, look for appliances that were Energy Star rated, but, over the Obama and Biden years Energy Star became too much climate cult. Heck, even during the first Trump admin they were getting out of control with their cultish beliefs
E.P.A. Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate Energy Star, the popular energy efficiency certification for dishwashers, refrigerators, dryers and other home appliances, according to agency documents and a recording of an internal meeting.
E.P.A. managers announced during an internal staff meeting on Monday that divisions that oversee climate change and energy efficiency would be eliminated as part of an agency reorganization. That includes the E.P.A.’s climate change office as well as the division that oversees Energy Star.
“The Energy Star program and all the other climate work, outside of what’s required by statute, is being de-prioritized and eliminated,” Paul Gunning, the director of E.P.A. Office of Atmospheric Protection told employees during the meeting, according to the recording obtained by The New York Times. Mr. Gunning’s office itself is also slated for elimination.
For the past 33 years, Energy Star has been known for its recognizable blue label, which shows that an appliance has met energy efficiency standards set by the federal government.
What appliances do not have one? Scrolling through random appliances on Home Depot they all seem to be Energy Star compliant.
Since its creation under the first President George Bush in 1992, Energy Star has helped households and businesses save more than $500 billion in energy costs and to get rebates and tax credits, according to the program’s 2024 report. At the same time, it has also prevented four billion metric tons of greenhouse gases from being released into the atmosphere.
And there it is: doomsday climate cult.
Paula R. Glover, president of the Alliance to Save Energy, a group that promotes energy efficiency, said the Energy Star program costs $32 million but delivers $40 billion in annual savings on utility bills.
Let’s be honest: does anyone think companies won’t continue to make efficient appliances? Consumers will not want to purchase ones that cost them more money. I also wouldn’t be surprised if some private company comes up with their own ratings, like Consumer Reports. With the internet people have all sorts of ways of looking at appliances. If I want a TV or computer or guitar I have places I go to read reviews.
Realistically, all that is going to be shut down is a department of bureaucratic paper shufflers. Manufacturers, who take all of the engineering and measurements anyway, will still do the research, and corporations will make it part of their advertising, just without government involvement.
I had no idea that was a government office. I thought they were private, like UL. Maybe all those hard working government employees could invest their savings and start a private corporation that continues to hand out energy star labels in exchange for corporate donations?
We don’t need governments. Humanity survived for nearly a million years without governments. We hunted, we gathered, we found a nice cave or built a lean-to or tent, we slept, we fxcked… nice life.
Then, some 10 or 12 thousand years ago some cavemen with a bureaucratic bent started organizing our stuff. “You grow quinoa, you built a path for the carts to carry quinoa, you built the quinoa storehouse, you count baskets of quinoa and write it down”… Then an enterprising caveman, Thag Hormel, saw that families didn’t like to hunt, kill and butcher their own meat. He foresaw dinosaur ranching and processing plants. The bureaucrats didn’t trust Thag to sell only fresh meat so they invented the Food Department with cavemen inspecting Thag’s facilities. Other cavemen, seeing Thag’s amazing cabin and decorations, concluded they could raise, fatten and butcher dinos more cheaply than Thag and thus ‘competition’ was born, and with it, the Commerce Department. Later, Thag Michelin invented the wheel, makig the quinoa carts much more efficient but requiring even better roads, hence the Department of Transportation. Heavy carts damages roads so the DOT started weighing the carts.
And on and on. All these ‘modern advances’ were paid by all the people in the community who were required to pay into the new government. After a few centuries, ‘percentages’ were invented allowing the bureaucrats to ‘fairly’ dun the citizens.
Settlement One with their Hormel factory, their quinoa farms, their wheeled carts and roads, attracted the attention of other settlements. The others had a few options to increase the organization of their own settlements – 1) copy the methds of their neighbors, 2) join with their neighbors or 3) use clubs, knives and rocks to subdue their neighbors. Early humans invariably chose 3, leading to the formation of the Department of Defense, who studied making better knives, rocks and clubs. Thag Javelin invented the spear, Thag Damascus invented the sword, Thag David the sling and the arms race was on. Thag “Robin” Hood invented the arrow, a small spear, that could propelled by the “bow” which was invented a century later by Thag Bear. Thag (One Eye) Xiaoping invented a powder that that burned rapidly. Thag Trebuchet invented a device for hurling objects great distances.
Anyway, the role of governments was and is CONTROL of us cavemen. And to enrich themselves.
Another Rimjob TL:DNR.
LOL. And yet the obsessed Lil Pissant always responds. I own him!
Energy Star sounded like a good idea, but in practice all it managed to achieve is appliances that used less electricity but didn’t perform their functions nearly as well as their non-Energy Star predecessors. Those appliances also didn’t have the longevity of their predecessors and required repair and replacement for more often. How was any of that a ‘plus’?