Of course they are! They’ve engineered their appliances to get the energy star label. If that label disappears they lose their investment because that label will no longer be there to quickly distinguish the efficient products.
Yup. Trump also removed the requirement limiting the amount of water a toilet can use to flush and no manufacturers cared. They already changed their designs and factories to produce efficient models. Why would they change it all just to make stuff that’s worse?
Yeah, that’s the partni really don’t understand. Trump wants people and companies to spend a lot of extra money to get back the shitty products from the past. Why?
Cause energy efficiency is woke, probably.
If you acknowledge that climate change is real, then clearly you’ve been infected by those dirty leftist commies
Lower water use also means you can get that extra bathroom you wanted.
It does?
Less money on water to use on other shit yeah why not.
Plus who knows what the requirements will be in four years, maybe energy star will be reinstated?
At this point, it’s probably wise not to count on the “in four years” idea that Trump will willingly step aside and allow someone else to be President. And even if we get lucky and he dies before that time, his successor is much younger and just as emboldened as Trump.
To paraphrase the old saying, “Hide yo kids, hide yo couch!”
I’m still planning on leaving the country, but I think it’s okay to have some hope in the meantime
What makes you think you’ll be able to leave?
I hope you have dual citizenship because that’s pretty much your only path at this point.
Why is the response to someone voicing their desire to leave always the same pessimistic dead end response?
I’ve read dozens if not hundreds of responses like yours. I’m leaving this week. Yes it’s hard but it’s not impossible.
It’s the same crab bucket mentality as on Reddit.
Maybe a more realistic suggestion than my previous one would be to look for a job outside the US by an employer willing to sponsor a visa.
You’ll need some highly sought after skills that are hard to come by. They aren’t interested in taking anyone to fill any job. Then you’ll need to wade yourself through the long line of visa applicants.
Best of luck!
I imagine people on Lemmy are more likely to have these skills compared to the average?
I don’t live in the US so I’m not the one you should wish good luck to.
Would it not be possible to just cross the border into Canada and claim refugee status?
You’ll just be deported
Could still be worth trying. It might be politically difficult for Canada to deport that person if the person is framing it as opposition to Trump and Canadians are galvanized against Trump.
You couldn’t do that even before all the 51st state stuff. Now it would be impossible
Good luck to you!
I hope you’re worth something to another country because you can’t just go anywhere you want (unless you want to be an illegal immigrant)
The inefficient models will be unsellable outside of the US, and the efficient models from elsewhere will be unsellable in the US due to tariffs.
So basically the US will have inferior goods like the Eastern block and its Trabants.
They argued that ending Energy Star labeling would go against Trump’s stated goal of bringing down energy prices.
Haven’t they learned anything? Just because Trump says he wants to do something does not mean he’ll do it. Most especially anything beneficial to anybody but him and his entourage of cock suckers.
Ok. Let’s talk a out this for a moment.
A fridge brand new in 1985 cost about 85 dollars a year in energy now a fridge costs about 45 a year. A YEAR. The savings is absolutely negligible.
And I understand that over a large population that small amount of savings is quite large. The thing is the standards for these types of ratings is… Questionable at best.
For example on a washing machine they conserve water by filling the tub with less water several times which in turn works out to be more water over time instead of just one fill.
The energy star rating sticker is there for marketing and nothing else. It helps sell the appliance. Thats all.
Is that in 1985 dollars or inflation adjusted?
Got a source to back those claims up?
Are those dollar values normalized to the same year?
You going off data or just vibes, because the only thing here that feels questionable at best is your post.
TIL that a ~50% improvement in energy use is ‘absolutely negligible’.
I agree that the energy star system may be flawed but the premise of your comment is wild.
He’s using Maga-nomics. Real numbers don’t mean anything
If the energy star rating is not there, manufacturers have no incentive to try to qualify. Likely it is cheaper to cut corners that make appliances less efficient. So, they’ll do that and consumers won’t have a way to easily know that they did. We may see the 1985-tier fridge energy use again.
My bet is that consumers still care because it equates to dollars, so either the manufacturers will advertise it themselves, raitings websites will measure it as part of their assessment, or some non profit will pop up to do it.
Have you heard of a little thing called the environment? Not everything is about money.
