If appliances are less efficient, we all have to buy more energy. 

Republicans want us to pay for more fossil fuel. 

HEATED Why are Republicans so obsessed with refrigerators? The seemingly weird plan in Project 2025 is merely a new page of a familiar fossil fuel playbook. Arielle Samuelson and Emily Atkin Sep 23, 2024

Project 2025 proposes to repeal the law mandating electricity-saving and water-saving regulations for appliances—a law signed by former President Ronald Reagan and currently supported by manufacturers.

They clearly want everyone to need to buy more energy. As if it’s not bad enough that Three Mile Island nuclear plant is going to be started up again just to run some chatbots.