The Department of Energy is expected to finalize stringent efficiency requirements that would eliminate up to 60% of current home gas furnace models from the market.
Power the Future Executive Director Daniel Turner joined 'Fox & Friends' to discuss how the policies are 'taking a toll' on Americans and the broader concerns surrounding the push.which home gas-powered furnaces consumers are able to purchase in the future.— would restrict consumer choice, drive prices higher and likely have a low impact on greenhouse gas emissions.
GAS STOVE PROTECTION BILLS SUFFER MAJOR SETBACK AS HOUSE REPUBLICANS EXPRESS FRUSTRATION WITH MCCARTHY "They're going to have to, in many cases, install new equipment to exhaust gas out of their home. These higher efficiency units, or so-called condensing units — a lot of consumers have them in their home, but a lot of consumers don't. So, this rule would require additional retrofits for a lot of consumers. And those retrofits can be extremely cost prohibitive."to more than 74 million customers nationwide, filed comments in opposition of the furnace rules with the DOE last year.
"AGA's primary concern is, one, removing that option, that choice, from consumers," he continued."Two, in many cases, natural gas remains the lowest cost and even lowest-emissions resource for many consumers. A lot of the policies we're seeing that are designed to restrict natural gas may end up having a counterproductive result and could increase costs to consumers and could increase the emissions associated with the energy use by those consumers.
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