Not one to sit on their hands, the Dems – when in control – reach for everything and anything they can grasp, and with climate policy a priority, they’ve attempted to regulate everything they can’t ban outright, and now they are coming for your gas-powered generators.
It’s a bad idea for many reasons, not the least of which is the need for backup today. The current grid, ill-fitted for their future energy plans, has points of failure that require private use generators when the power goes out. But it’s not just homeowners. Businesses from small to large, hospitals, public service, and government, everyone who needs power when it fails runs gas-powered generators.
There is no wind or solar replacement for them, especially if wind and solar become the go-to point of failure in the grid and fail to deliver, they will. The Biden Admin and their Climate Cultist allies could care less. They are trying to burn the ships as it were standing us with only one choice. Their choice.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has proposed a policy (pdf) that would remove nearly all existing portable gas generators from the market. The new rule restricts the amount of carbon monoxide that generators can emit by forcing these generators to switch off when they reach a certain level of emissions.
Smaller gas generators would have to cut carbon monoxide emissions by 50 percent, and larger generators would have to cut emissions by up to 95 percent. Nearly all models currently available are expected to not be in compliance with the new standard.
Once the proposed rules come into effect, manufacturers would have to comply with them in just six months, a process that usually takes several years. The rules would also ban manufacturers from stockpiling noncompliant generators before the new standards are enacted.
These changes will, at first, make them much more expensive and sustainable as incremental overreach works to eliminate them as an asset. Does FEMA have a plan to adapt? Emergency management from local PDs to Federal agencies use generators. Mandates such as this will drive up those costs making the government more expensive and, again, as if Demcorats care. But they might care about this.
You’ve seen the memes or pics converted into memes. An EV runs out of juice for whatever reason, and the only way to field charge it is for rescue vehicles to roll up with a gas-powered generator. I you make them too expensive or ban them – which is likely the goal, how do you plan to rescue those EVs trapped out in the wild?
The answer is, with any luck, no one who lives out there will be able to afford an EV and will have to move into a 15-minute city where no one needs that.
The vast gap between that future and the current reality makes no difference to them, nor the damage required to drag us from one point to the other. They don’t care about the hardship. All they care about is policy goals.
HT | The Burning Platform
