If you think voting for Republican Congress-schlumps is effective, think again.
...The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed new rules on Friday that would restrict the use of refrigerators, air conditioning equipment, and heat pumps that utilize hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)....
...“The bipartisan AIM Act authorizes EPA to limit or prohibit the use of HFCs in specific sectors and to phase in these requirements over time as appropriate. The proposed rule addresses petitions granted in October 2021 and would restrict the use of climate-damaging HFCs used in certain foams, aerosol products, and refrigeration, air conditioning, and heat pump equipment beginning in 2025. The HFCs that are being restricted under this proposal are those that have higher global warming impacts,” the news release reads.
One must wonder how many businesses they’ll kill with this. They claim HFCs are “super pollutants,” that are worse than CO2....
EPA usually manufactures "science" rather than using real-life observations. Then they claim that The World Will End unless they eliminate another critical component of life, such as HFC's, or coal, or petroleum, ......you get the picture.
For those of you who are too young to remember:
...Industry developed HFCs as a non-ozone depleting replacement for CFCs when the Clinton administration claimed they had to go.
The Kigali Amendment has nothing to do with ozone depletion, quite the contrary in fact. The 1987 Montreal Protocol mandated the phase out of CFCs, the primary refrigerant and aerosol propellant at the time. CFC were globally replaced with HFCs...
CFC's were used in automotive air conditioners (and other places.) If you have an older car (pre-1995) and you the old refrigerant (Freon) leaks out, you will have a very hard time replacing it, if you can replace it at all.
The Kigali Amendment--'bipartisan', remember--was designed to fight the 'ozone hole' (later proved to be fiction) by eliminating CFC's, not to eliminate HFC's. But now EPA twists it.
What will your next refrigerator cost?
That's not the important question. The important question is "Will there BE a 'next refrigerator'?"
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