EPA Encourages Utility Controlled Refrigerators

From CNSNEWS.com (July 3):

(CNSNews.com) - At times of peak demand for electricity, do you want your refrigerator to run at the discretion of the power company?

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has revised its Energy Star energy-efficiency requirements for residential refrigerators, and it is encouraging the inclusion of “connected” features that respond to utility signals to curb their energy consumption.

The EPA announced the new requirements on June 27. Included is the optional “smart-grid” connection for customers to electronically connect their refrigerator or freezer with a utility provider. [read more]

Why stop at refrigerators and freezers? Why not have every appliance plugged into the “smart-grid?” Isn’t that what the Left wants? Complete control of your life. That’s what Obamacare is really about. But I digress….

You may say that it’s the power companies that are controlling the electricity going to the refrigerators or freezers. (Why aren’t driers and washers part of this “smart-grid” connection? They use a quite of bit electricity too. Hmm. Maybe, the EPA will do that later.) True, but if the power companies are nationalized (you know like the healthcare industry is going to be. Don’t laugh. It could happen.) then it is the gov’t ultimately doing the controlling. This is a dictator’s ultimate dream—one of them anyway.

Why is the EPA encouraging companies to make “smart-grid” enabled refrigerators and freezers you ask? Can you say Global Warming, er, sorry Climate Change (I keep forgetting)? Right now the consumers have a choice to have their appliances connected to the grid. But it might not be a choice in the future if Climate Change is such a problem (as Obama thinks it is). An American citizen might be required to have their appliances plugged into the “smart-grid” to save the planet.  We all have to do our part after all.