By John Klar, The Federalist, March 25, 2024
John Klar is an attorney, writer, pastor, and farmer. John blogs for Mother Earth News on agriculture issues and writes a column for Vermont’s True North Reports. His Substack is Small Farm Republic. You can pre-order his new book, “Small Farm Republic: Why Conservatives Must Embrace Local Agriculture, Reject Climate Alarmism, and Lead an Environmental Revival.”
Joe Biden and his EPA’s push for electric heat pumps will be an even bigger fail than their push for electric vehicles.
Although Biden’s various electric vehicle (EV) mandates and subsidies tend to get more press than his other half-brained attempts to reduce carbon dioxide, the administration’s push for electric heat pumps could prove to be even more of a disaster.
Heat pumps are a novel innovation for electric heat that are presented as innocuous but are arguably the most ill-advised of consumer products. In addition to concerns about cost, functionality, net pollution, and disposal, the elephant in the heat pump living room is grid dependency. If the electric grid fails even temporarily, homeowners in cold regions reliant solely on electric heat face life-threatening consequences. Consumers may want to hold off disconnecting their woodstoves in blind trust of such a fragile technological reed. …
