Energy Dept. Moving to Drop ‘Green New Scam’ Appliance Mandates
Thank you. THANK YOU. Make it happen!
U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright announced his department wants to eliminate the stupid appliance mandates.
“U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright today announced the Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to permanently end home appliance and equipment mandates that raise costs and disrupt consumer choice,” according to a press release. “The proposal will update the Department’s Process Rule used to establish energy conservation standards for household appliances and equipment, including air conditioning units, gas stoves, washing and drying machines, water heaters, refrigerators, and other products Americans rely on every day.”
FOX News was the first to report the move.
“In America, you should be able to choose a dryer that dries clothes on the first try rather than one that takes multiple cycles—unfortunately, past administrations thought otherwise,” Secretary Wright said. “For too long, the American people paid the price for mandates that restricted consumer choice and drove up costs. President Trump promised to end this nonsense and that is exactly what we are doing.”
I am so tired of low-pressure shower heads. I take longer to do the dishes, even rinsing them, due to my new kitchen faucet. Don’t even get me started on toilets, especially when you’re sick.
“This proposed rule will preserve the American people’s ability to choose home appliances and equipment that actually work — at prices they can afford. It’s called common sense,” added Wright.
The lovely Leslie Eastman has written numerous articles about the war President Joe Biden and his handlers waged on our precious appliances.
Biden’s DOE wanted to change the dishwasher standard to set the maximum per-cycle water consumption (gal/cycle) at 3.3. The current standard is 5, but most dishwashers are 3.5.
Those officials also restricted the use of window air conditioning units.
They also went after our washing machines and dryers.
I lost my mind when Biden’s DOE threatened our gas stoves. I love to cook and bake. Don’t you DARE touch my gas stove.
“From day one, the Trump Administration has offered relief to consumers, businesses, and industries through bold deregulatory action,” said Assistant Secretary of Energy (EERE) Audrey Robertson. “This proposal is about the future. It will ensure that new regulations promote affordability, preserve consumer choice, and meet the highest standards for transparency and due diligence.”
The DOE linked to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. People can submit comments for 30 days after the Federal Register publishes it.
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Adhering to common sense notions and lowering consumer/household costs matter less to the vile, stupid and evil nazi/communist/Islamofascist/Muslim supremacist Dhimmi-crat pukes, than imposing their stupid, fanatical, prosperity-destroying, irrational and impoverishing “green”/”climate change diktats upon the peasants of the proletariat, by any means necessary.
Marginal cost marginal benefit analysis is one of the most important economic concepts. ( cost benefit analysis give incomplete answers)
for example
Back in 1990, the EPA required lower VOC emission levels in oil based paints to reduce ground level ozone. Going from 340ish down to 280per gallon. The result was lower adhesion and lower hardness which results paint lifespan being cut in half for a miniscule reduction in ground level ozone. Thus creating more frequent painting and an over all increase in ground level ozone along with more solid waste.
Same issue with appliances. Yes reduced water consumption but more frequent repairs and more solid waste as the appliances life spans are cut in half
When the threat to gas stoves came out in 2023, I had a gas line run to my house and installed a gas water heater and a dual-fuel range (gas cook top, electric convection oven). I have the option of converting my fireplace to gas logs.
My house was built in 1928 in Florida, so I probably would have been safe, but I wasn’t taking the chance.
The people who have been making these stupid decisions all these years should be rounded up and sentenced to homes with such appliances. I would actually like to burn them at the stake but today it way too hot to contemplate any form of heat.
Also they get no A/C for life.
The decision that really set my teeth on edge was the one associated with light bulbs. Yes I’m supposed to replace a common easily manufactured bulb with a toxic mercury based monstrosity that takes a hazmat crew to clean up in case of breakage and special rules for disposal that don’t involve the standard trash. I’d asl what they were thinking but they weren’t.
They had *power* and wanted to use it. A far simpler and more effective way to push us to more efficient bulbs would have been to tax incandescent lights. Ten cents a bulb to start, bumping to twenty a few years later, then twenty-five or so, and then stop with that cap set in concrete so some crazy leftist doesn’t crank it to a dollar or two per bulb. The shift would have been slower and more effective, sparing us from the squirrely bulbs that burned out faster and cost more, with mercury as a topping.
*Some* of the end results are awesome. LED flashlights run ten times as long and I’ve never had one burn out. The two-button flush toilets that have a low-flow mode for P, and normal for Poo. LED streetlights targeted for the area they illuminate and a fraction of the electricity. And washing machines…um…nope, can’t find a positive in there. We still use an old top-loader with an agitator, which works just fine.
Just had a newer front load washer go kaput. Not the mechanical, but the electronic board. No replacement available. Otherwise a perfectly working washer. Yanked it out & found a top load Kenmore from circa 1980. Totally mechanical. I will probably never have to replace it in my life time.
I went to a 5 gallon bucket and dish soap for laundry years ago. No point trying to buy a working washing machine. Swish around, soak, swish, change water, repeat, hang on line.
Yeah, and the benefit is that you don’t even have to leave your cell!
back in, oh, 2011? I bought an “energy efficient, low-water” washing machine.
I had sheets come out with dry spots – no way they got clean if they never even got wet.
It took THREE HOURS to wash ONE load of clothes. With 4 children 2-10, I did NOT have time for that flim-flamery.
It was definitely NOT energy efficient for MY time.
In less than a year, I sold it for $50, took the stupid tax, and bought a top-load Speed Queen.
NEVER AGAIN. I will not ever buy an energy efficient anything if I can help it.
Ive heard Speed Queen is an awesome washer! Unfortunately, I just bought a 40 year old Kenmore to replace a front loader that puked the electronics.
I went with energy efficient appliances for my retirement house since it’s off grid. The one thing I didn’t screw around with was the large capacity kenmore washer and dryer. Mine are 20 years old and working fine. They may use more energy but hey, I have a backup generator for the winter. I had a set of Kenmore washer/dryer in my house in Georgia and they were still working well after 40 years when I sold the house. My house is in the high desert with a 340 ft well. Water conservation is a must so I won’t be changing out my faucets or toilets any time soon.
Build a better product people will buy it. Especially at a lower or even at a slightly more expensive but fair price. This has been forgotten. The result is worse products that are more expensive and in some cases don’t last as long.
Software has been like that too, Unfortunately.
And stop putting more bells and whistles into everything that no one and I mean no one in some cases never use and certainly never wanted.
(old man shaking fist at sky)
Search YT on how the Kitchen Aide mixer went from a durable machine manufactured by Hobart, to the waste of money that it is today. Built to fail so you will buy another and another……
Never again.
Just publish easy to understand (but not gimmicky and therefore untrue) information that allows me to compare different machines. And let me make the choice. Then you can stop all of your BS about what I have to be offered.
My first house had low pressure shower heads. A 7/16 drill bit corrected the low pressure issue.
I can relate. A low flow nozzle and shampoo in a bushy beard don’t go together well.
Our experience with modern appliances isn’t so bad.
Late last year our almost-30-year-old Sears Kenmore (yes, Sears) washer was making loud, ominous noises that told us it wasn’t long for this world. After three-five loads a week for nearly three decades we were satisfied with its service. We replaced it with an LG WT6105CW from Lowes, one of the less expensive units with robust construction like the more costly ones but lacking bells and whistles, like a sexy display, a couple of retirees don’t need. We now do two-four loads a week.
We’re satisfied with the LG but it took a little getting used to. Washing a load takes more time but it’s *much* quieter. For most loads we need to choose Deep Fill at the start, then pause it after it starts agitating and choose the Second Rinse. With this procedure and three ounces of HE Persil detergent we get clean clothes. A plus is that it spins the clothes much faster than the old Kenmore so the dryer runs less. Another is the tub is larger so we wash more clothes with the same amount of water as before.
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“one of the less expensive units with robust construction like the more costly ones but lacking bells and whistles, like a sexy display, a couple of retirees don’t need.”
The washer in our rental went kaput, so DW wanted to move her current front-loader (which worked fine but she hates because you can’t add to the load once it starts, and you have to leave the door open to bark your shins or it molds up) to the rental and buy a new machine. She didn’t want one with the computerized board that goes wonky after a few years and has a several hundred dollar replacement bill, so her attention went to the popular Speed Queen model with manual controls. It commanded a strangely high price point, even though it had less capacity than any of their other models, but she was serious about following up on the purchase… until an appliance guy we trust informed her that it had the same electronic brains as all the others, it just had knob-like control interfaces to it. Looks like they were making fast money pandering to the technophobic geezer market in quite a deceptive manner.
A good test is weight, just compare. Some washers are so easy to break. Speed Queen uses metal parts in places the competition uses plastic. I’m very anti front loader, the mold issue, repair cost, and washing effectiveness. Gas dryers are great. This is based on my experience I have 6 rentals with washers and dryers in them.
Yes, the days of the electromechanical timer with its cam switches are sadly gone. I bought a surge arrester for the washer in hopes it will let the control board last a reasonable time. We also got the extended warranty.
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I’ve had a few places try to sell me on whole house surge arrestors. I decline, because our surge problem invariably originates on the wrong side of our breaker box – that is, from lightning strikes to the property.
I thought they announced this stuff two months ago?
I’ve been using front load washers for years. I’m completely satisfied. For reasons too long to explain I now am using a Samsung all in one washer dryer with the heat pump drying. The competing GE has too many “yes but…!” things in the reviews. So, the Samsung. I am 100% happy with it.
Basic washing machines used to have electric pre-heaters that would trickle in electrically heated hot water until the hot water from your house’s water heater arrived at the washing machine.
Hot water washing, of bedding especially, was an important public health measure, crucial for eliminating bedbugs.
To get the water hot enough, you need that preheating, otherwise your hot water is admixed with cold.
Then “high efficiency” standards were imposed, and the electric pre-heaters were eliminated.
Now bedbugs are coming back.
Half of it was the mass illegal immigration, bringing every disease and pestilence un-inspected across our southern border, and half of it is the loss of hot washing capability.
My HE dryer does have a hot setting, but I don’t know if it is as hot as hot used to be.
I despise low-flush toilets. You’re not saving water or anything if you have to flush fifty million times to get the job done. Only boneheads think low-flush is a great conservation idea.
Low-flush toilets aren’t worth crap.
Low flow shower heads; here’s the fix.
Unscrew your shower head from the pipe; look inside. You will see a little gray soft plastic gizmo right in the central hole; this is a restrictor. Pull it out with a pair of needle nose pliers… et voilà.
I wonder how long it will take for the new regs to modify the manufacturing process and give us actual appliances fit for use.
The EPA was specifically prohibited from engaging in the regulation of appliances , BBQs, and yard equipment..so left let the DOE do so. With a very suspect Congressional authority.
My last GE fridge lasted 1.5 years. No one could fix. Chinese trash. Made in America meant made by. Chinese company using all Chinese parts.