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To: Scumbria who wrote (135922)	4/6/2001 12:22:38 PM
From: stribe30	Read Replies (2) of 1572514

Bush may relax energy-use standards for appliances Tell me something.. is Bush rescinding every Clinton directive just because it came from Clinton, even if it appears to help in the fight against the energy crisis? I dont really understand if he goes ahead and does what this story suggests WebPosted Thu Apr 5 13:04:07 2001 WASHINGTON - The United States government is expected to announce soon whether it will roll back standards requiring new home central air conditioners and heat pumps to use less electricity and natural gas. The standards were implemented in the late stages of the Clinton presidency. Energy department spokesman Joe Davis says the decision could also rescind new efficiency standards for clothes washers and water heaters. The expected decision comes as the energy crisis in the state of California worsens. "It would look pretty bad if the first policy action on energy was to make the crisis worse," said David B. Goldstein, director of energy programs for the Natural Resources Defense Council. President George W. Bush has rescinded several of Bill Clinton's environmental directives and regulations, including mandated reductions of arsenic in drinking water, stricter requirements on mineral miners and a ban on new roads and most logging in a third of the national forests. This would be first to directly touch on energy production. Clinton's standards require that new central air conditioning units and heat pumps use 30 percent less energy by 2006. Water heaters would have to use 10 percent less energy by then and washing machines would have to operate on 35 percent less energy by 2007. Manufacturers have argued that the standards will make the cost of some products too expensive for many homeowners, even if lower energy bills produce a net savings over several years. cbc.ca (Ah.. thats why.. manufactuers dont like it.. and of course.. Bush loves to help the corporate sector out)

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