Can't take a shower, honey, the windmill isn't turning.
Wall Street Journal (2/25/25) opinion: "The House is expected to vote Thursday on whether to repeal one of Joe Biden’s crazier regulations—an effective ban on the production and sale of certain gas-powered water heaters. Natural gas is a clean-burning fuel that has made America’s air cleaner, with lower lead, soot and carbon-dioxide emissions compared with coal. The gas water-heater ban could add $450 to $1,000 to the cost of a water heater, according to a trade group, and put hundreds of Americans who make this product for Georgia-based Rinnai America out of work. The company recently invested $70 million in a new gas-heater production facility that may have to be shuttered if this regulation goes forward. If Republicans want to be the pro-American manufacturing party, this is precisely the kind of regulation they need to toss. Under the Congressional Review Act, they can do so with a simple majority in both chambers. But in a strange twist that could happen only in Washington, the loudest lobbyists for retaining the rule aren’t the environmentalists but rather the manufacturers of electric heaters, which aren’t subject to the rule and want Congress to knock out their competition."
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"I think there's an opportunity … to increase the capacity of some of the coal-fired power plants that have been slowed down in recent years. Because if we don't do that, we're not going to compete with the Chinese."
– Gov. Patrick Morrisey, West Virginia
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