Increased Government Supremacy, Not a Solution for Energy Efficiency

Instead of finding solutions to solve our country's current energy crisis, agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy are working towards instilling limits, stated more clearly here, on customer's purchasing options.  These new regulations, which will place a standard on a range of products from clothes dryers to certain models of cars, are supposed to help customers by choosing, for them, which products are most energy efficient.  Limiting the breadth of options that helps meet the range of financial and personal needs of all consumers will harm the consumers more than benefit them.  The minor difference these new restrictions would make in cutting down the harmful effects, of these non renewable sources, would not outweigh the economic and financial costs they would create.  Besides this uneconomical disadvantage, the consent of letting the Government play a larger role in interfering with individualized, personal choices only attributes to the possibility of less personal freedom and a more regulated Government in the future.  Rather than trying to limit consumer options by placing a restriction on which products are available,  these agencies should focus on providing more clean energy sources.  This will give the consumer the option to make this purchase if it is affordable, while keeping other alternatives available until more clean energy products are available that are more cost efficient, allowing for a more economically stable solution for all consumers.