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I have a off-grid solar house. Solar homes generate very little electricity. You really cannot use anything with a heating element if your house is off-grid, unless you have a HUGE number of panels.
I "need" a energy efficient coffee machine!!!
The average electric coffee maker uses more electricity than a washing machine. For years, the BPA (federally run Bonneville Power Authority) gave rebates for folks buying "efficient washing machines.
If they were serious they could save much more electricity by giving rebates for "energy efficient coffee machines"!!! I think some observant civil servant made the observation and somebody in Congress followed up on it.
Typical Democrat government solution.
Really if they were serious about climate change, just ban electric coffee machines for those households that get their electricity from coal and natural gas. Shame people into doing the right thing.
At my solar house I just pour boiling water in a Mileta drip cup with a paper filter and drip into a insulated carafe. Don't need a government program if people would simply do that.
The Japanese and Russians do it with their tea. Why do we think we are so special that we need electric coffee makers??
Where do you get the boiling water?
Granted, a drip coffee maker as you described makes good coffee, but it takes energy to boil the water.
If this was Trump the Left would be screaming about invoking the 25th amendment.
Biden really is losing it and worse he is becoming dangerous with his inflammatory comments about Putin, China and now Pakistan.
It sickens me to think about President Harris given that she did nothing to earn that spot. I'd take Hillary over Harris any day but the day is fast approaching when Biden will have to be put out to pasture to save us.
Spreading the Faith? Coffee machines? The country is falling apart and the guy wants us to have a new coffee machine? okay but will we be able to afford the coffee to put into that new machine?
Impeach Biden.
Hillary and I are 180 degrees out of phase on just about everything, but at least she has a brain. Yes, she'd be much better than Kamala.
I have a wood burning stove. That is how I heat the house when I am there, but use propane to heat it when I am gone.
My off-grid "solar" house emits much more CO2 than my in town house, which runs on 100% CO2 free electricity. I do have a coffee machine there....
For RocketDawg.....I use my propane stove to heat water for coffee.
Really, my off-grid "solar" home runs primarily on propane. But don't tell anybody. I rent it as a vacation rental and the city folks think its really cool to stay in a "solar" house.
Yeah, they ***** about not having a coffee machine.
I am a great fan of solar for the International Space Station, my "solar" fishing boat, my RV and of course, my solar off-grid vacation home.
I am not a fan of solar for a advanced industrial society. Though if we want to play with solar toys, lets put the solar panels on roof tops and not the desert lands of the southwest.
personally, i know and trust Chuck Schumer because he has decades of experience as not only an economist but also a financial wizard, and inflation reducer.
Is this the comedy forum!
I remeber when I worked at the Senate office building and we were told,"If there is camera anywhere near here, get out of the way, becuae ole chucky will be charging to get to it."
he said it with a straight face.....I kid you not. Biden said his ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ will help middle class families afford to buy energy efficient coffee machines (OP title)
Among the many other inflation-beating features of the act. The title of the act alone should eliminate inflation.
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