The following report is by Town Hall:
After attempts to ban gas stoves burned such proposals’ Democrat proponents and proposed new federal vehicle efficiency standards seek to force costs even higher, the Biden administration is now going after (drumroll please) ceiling fans. Republicans in the House of Representatives, however, are not fans of the proposal due to the impact it looks to have on America’s small businesses.
In a new letter to the U.S. Department of Energy and its leader Secretary Jennifer Granholm, members of the House Small Business Committee pointed out the problems with the latest policy in the Biden administration’s supposedly “green” energy crusade that’s anything but.
This proposed rule would decrease the maximum estimated energy consumption permissible for large diameter and belt driven ceiling fans.
This rule would require numerous small business fan manufacturers to redesign their products and may put between 10 and 30 percent of small business ceiling fan manufacturers out of business. It appears that the Department of Energy (DOE) may not have properly considered small entities during this rulemaking process.
The letter from House Small Business Committee Chairman Roger Williams (R-TX) and Reps. Beth Van Duyne (R-TX), Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL), Jake Ellzey (R-TX), and Aaron Bean (R-FL) explains.
It would be unsurprising if the Biden administration ignored the concerns or impact of such a policy as it’s shown little if any concern for the impact of its climate agenda on the little guy or individual Americans. As such, the lawmakers’ letter reminds Secretary Granholm that it is “important for agencies to examine small businesses interests — which make up 99.9 percent of all businesses in the United States — when passing any new rule.”
Rightfully, the letter points out that “America’s small businesses deserve to have their voices heard and considered,” and asks the Department of Energy for more information on the policy to get a better idea of what the new energy consumption standard would mean for Americans.
Here’s what the committee wants to know:
1. Did the DOE consider allowing small business fan manufacturers to attest that they are using a DOE compliant electric motor, or other forms of alternative compliance, as a means of complying with this proposed rule?
2. In the impact calculation, did the DOE expect small businesses to abandon some of their product lines to comply with this rule, or that these businesses would redesign their products?
3. Does the DOE expect this rule to decrease the availability of large diameter, or belt driven ceiling fans?
4. What additional costs would a small business, such as a restaurant, incur when purchasing a new ceiling fan that complies with these updated standards?
5. Does the DOE believe “Small Business 1” in Table VI.1 will go out of business as a result of this rule?
a. Does the DOE believe “Small Business 2” in Table VI.1 will go out of business as a result of this rule?
b. Does the DOE believe “Small Business 3” in Table VI.1 will go out of business as a result of this rule?
The House Small Business Committee gave Secretary Granholm and her Department of Energy until August 30 to respond to their questions.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[24] Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself; [25] That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish; Isaiah 44:24-25
The DoE under Bidenstein have quite literally gone after every home appliance you can think of, for which I have reported on some of those.
The elites want everything to be controlled and interlinked to a central control cluster, so that AI can mitigate it all, as people live in some smart 15-minute city where everything is linked up to a digital ID and a smart meter, so people can get charged and turned off for using too much air conditioning, eating too much meat or letting food spoil, leaving the tv on too long, you name it. So, the technocratic elites have to reform all the appliances and products for this to work; and make them significantly less effective as not to overload their new smart grids.
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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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The Biden administration are as bright as a blown lightbulb!
What will they think of next?
They aren’t stupid, they are evil. It’s all bout control and killing the middle class and entrepreneurs.
Setting up the Mystery Babylon, one freedom at a time!