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Sadly, it was for a squishy reason, not one that says “the rule was vast fucking government overreach and everyone involved should be thrown in jail for this”

US appeals court voids Biden-era efficiency rule for stoves, ovens

A federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down a Biden administration-era rule setting efficiency standards for gas and electric stoves and ovens, saying the agency ?improperly bypassed public comment procedures.

In a 3-0 decision, the 5th U.S. ?Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled in favor of seven Republican-led states — Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Tennessee, Texas and Utah — that challenged the Department of Energy’s “direct final rule” for consumer-grade stoves ?and ovens.

The August 2024 rule was intended to limit how much energy consumers ?use in kitchen appliances, and to ban an older technology known ?as linear power supplies.

Circuit Judge Andrew Oldham said the Energy Department should not have fast-tracked ?the rule, knowing that numerous states opposed a 2023 attempt to enact similar efficiency ?standards.

He also dismissed the rule as part of a push by former President Joe Biden’s administration to make home appliances “more expensive and less useful.”

Hey, remember all the photos of the gas stoves used by Biden and Kamala?

The judge ?said “it cannot be ?contended with a straight face” that those Democratic-led states fairly represented the entire country.

He also said the department failed to consider ?whether making appliances more technologically complex in the name of ?efficiency would ?reduce reliability or increase associated costs.

Sorry, judge, the climate cultists who came up with the rule didn’t really give a damn about costs, only their cult (while also not giving up their own stoves and ovens).