Like speech, guns, and energy: they’re coming for our water.
The Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers is accusing the Department of Energy (DOE) of a politically motivated drive to increase dishwasher efficiency, which are so bad that they would cause consumers to re-wash dishes, erasing any efficiency gains.
Rob McAver, the group’s head lobbyist, said regulators are going too far, and the new rules will allow only 3.1 gallons to be used to wash each load of dishes.
“At some point, they’re trying to squeeze blood from a stone that just doesn’t have any blood left in it,” McAver said.
Yeah…….like toilets that don’t flush…………
What is so broken inside a leftist’s head, that they see water and electrical supply problems, and their solution is “use government force to restrict commoners from using water and electricity” instead of “find ways to increase the supply”?
A five year old could work that out.
Lousy, phosphate-free dish soaps are also why i’m needing to soak dishes before loading. Hmmm, I’m using more water now. Yup, that about sounds right. Thanks, enviro weenies.
And don’t get me started on those damn gel packs. The damn gel dissolves poorly and gums up the works.
A politically commanded economy. Next they’ll be issueing five year plans for shoes.
I use Cold Water to wash my dishes and they come clean just fine.
Come here boy, Come on Cold Water ,time to do the dishes.
Speaking as a really big guy who has run into low flush toilets – people will simply wash their dishes 2 or 3 times.
Is water scares> A finite non-replenishing resource” Only in the perverse thinking of a PC zombie.
I swear, you frig with my dishwasher, I’ll buy disposable Styrofoam plates and plastic cutlery – frig up your Gaia nooky real good with those in the land fill..
California farming uses 40% of the water. Residents use 10% of the water. Fish. failed salmon and Delta smelt get 50%. Hmm.
I have a problem with water conserving appliances. Your typical toilet probably returns 102% of the water it uses to the river. A dishwasher returns very close to 100%. The amount of flow is irrelevant to conservation. I’m sure even a significant percentage of lawn watering ends up in the river through increased runoff.
Oh great, now I have to reverse engineer the dishwasher just like I had to figure out the shower head just so I could take a decent shower.
The same applies to new and inefficient clothes washers, designed by people who probably never did a load of laundry in their lives. I’m on my 3rd washer since 2011. The first one I bought to replace a 20+ year-old washer (which was still in good working condition) used to form a mushroom-cap-like enclosure for whatever else was in the washer, somehow keeping what was underneath it almost dry. That was easy for the washer, because it lacked the traditional agitator. I know, I know, I shouldn’t have chosen that model. Only after I started using it did I find out that before it would allow some water into the tub it had to weigh the load, think about it, and finally allow a small drip of water into the tub. It would not allow me to choose the temperature of the rinse cycle — most new washers apparently allow only cold water rinses. I finally bribed a family member to take the “thinker stinker” off my hands. It recently conked out on her.
The next one was equally annoying, also weighing the load to determine how much water it should allow into the tub. A laundry cycle that used to take maximum 30 minutes (in truth, I had never bothered to time doing my washing before) now took over an hour, what with all the pauses the machine took determining what step should come next. It finally decided to stop working the rinse/spin cycle properly, probably because I almost always did a second rinse because only one seemed insufficient. And the damn locking of top loading washers drives me insane!
The latest one I bought is the most basic model I could find. Like the other two, it also locks but only after the tub has filled. However, the noise it makes, especially when the spin cycle begins! How I regret giving away my 20+ year-old washer!
“A five year old could work that out.”
There is the rub. Most five year olds are smarter than bureaucrats, especially bureaucrats that have consumed the Goreacle koolaid.
sasquatch, exactly, and then plug up the drainage system.
Enviromentalism is a disorder cuased by watching movies like AVATAR and WATERWORLD too many times eating too many nuts and berries ride a bike in the hot sun too long and watching those Captian Planet marathons on Earthday and eating a strict vegan diet529
Yes, same problem we had with a GE side loader.(first and last side loader we’ll ever buy.
We finally bought new LG washer and dryer set this spring that work perfectly now.
With the GE washer the load had to be done over and over, sometimes 4 times and that piece of junk was supposed to save water.
We never buy GE products at all anymore after GE was known to be such a huge Obama donor.
All those world leaders,despots and dictators gathered in Copenhegan in their leer and gulfstreams and chuafred there in 11 MPG limos using countless kilowatt hours of electricity and gallons of water while yammering about this climate change poppycock and laying down their plans for World Goverment all under the United Nations control
Spurwing – the climate Nazi gatherings are NOT about the environment, they are about global government and regulating the west into impoverishment/submission. If this cluster of unelected, unaccountable pond scum bureaucrats ever get the power to tax, there goes the last vestage of freedom left in the deteriorating west.
my grandfather used to tell that joke only his dog was called nine waters.
Occam. Thats whatim getting at its all about World Goverment all under the United Nations control the UN was never created for Peace
Regardless of the overtures of the Western Left, Russia and China will not be cooperating with the push for One World Government in my lifetime unless one of them is the head of it, and since neither of them let’s an opposition party exist within their own nations, neither of them would ever let the other be the head of a World Government.
Nationalism, not internationalism, not globalism, is at an all time high in both Russia and China today.
Government regulations removed phosphates, so now people have to wash
the dishes multiple times. Kind of like flushing several times to
get all the turds down the drain. Do government regulations ever
save resources or benefit the consumer?
Amen to that.
Our washing machine is supposed to put in the right amount of water based on the weight of the load, but try washing a few small clothes in it. I think it might put as most a cup of water in.
And I refuse to put a stupid low flush toilet in my house. Find the old ones at garage sales etc.