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Appliance efficiency standards save consumers billions, reduce pollution and fight climate change (theconversation.com)
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[–] Beastimus@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

Yes, that sucks, I didn't realize the standards were done like that, that should change. It still seems to me like the repairability and lifespan problems are in all modern appliances, and thus don't specifically apply to more efficient ones, but from a financial perspective, if its that much extra, yeah, bad lifespan and repairability sucks even worse. What we need is a shift in the industry towards prioritizing useful lifespan (which I imagine would be a bigger sustainability gain) more so than we need marginal efficiency gains.