Key Vote YES on H.J. Res. 42

The American Energy Alliance supports H.J. Res. 42, providing for congressional disapproval of certain Department of Energy appliance standards.

Energy efficiency standards were created 50 years ago when politicians feared we were running out of domestic energy sources and dangerously reliant on the Middle East. That world is long past and the U.S. is the world’s leading natural gas, as well as leading oil, producer. Additionally, technology development has made appliances enormously efficient in energy use, so efficient that new energy efficiency rules, as restrictive and destructive as they are, would only theoretically save customers a few dollars a year. Such meager supposed savings, at the cost of convenience and consumer choice, in pursuit of obsolete goals expose the pointless destructiveness of energy efficiency mandates. Indeed, under the previous administration these rules were wielded not to save customers money, but rather to try to force customers to stop using the energy sources that the previous administration disliked. Congress should decisively reject this abuse of an antiquated statute at every opportunity.

A YES vote on H.J. Res. 42 is a vote in support of free markets and affordable energy. AEA will include this vote in its American Energy Scorecard.