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Those are all suggestions, pretty much none of them are the Law; and many of them have a zero effect on you, especially when building new. You can use less AC a
by abenga 3y ago
Those are all suggestions, pretty much none of them are the Law; and many of them have a zero effect on you, especially when building new. You can use less AC and heating by building a much better insulated house + geothermal heat pumps, for example. There is no inherent improvement in a gas furnace v some electric solution to the same problem.
- pbh101 3y agoPretty sure many appliance and auto requirements are indeed law and not suggestions. Much like ‘smoking in bars,’ these are things that the providers won’t do unilaterally because some large segment of consumers strongly don’t prefer it (and I greatly appreciate no smoke in bars!) But nobody actively wants an A/C or toilet or fridge that works worse, modulo the negative externalities that some care about but even they would want the better appliances if possible. And I promise you many people including most serious chefs would say there is a giant quality of life improvement from using gas stoves.