Posted on 10/15/2021 11:39:59 AM PDT by karpov
Supply chain bottlenecks have Americans waiting longer for the dishwashers and washing machines they've ordered. President Joe Biden's regulatory onslaught means that consumers will also spend extra time running whatever home appliances they do manage to get their hands on.
Earlier this week, the public comment period ended on the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) proposal to ban "short-cycle" dishwashers and laundry machines, which clean pants and plates much faster but consume more energy and water to get the job done.
These products were legalized under the Trump administration as part of its crusade to undo stifling energy efficiency limits and make America's appliances great again. Dishwashers, in particular, were an issue that provoked the former commander in chief's passions.
"The dishwashers, they had a little problem. They didn't give enough water, so people would run them 10 times, so they end up using more water. And the thing's no damn good. We freed it up," said former President Donald Trump on the campaign trail in October 2020.
His characteristic bravado had a lot of truth to it.
The past few decades have seen the default cycle times of dishwashers more than double—from an average of 69 minutes in 1983 to 140 minutes in 2018—as manufacturers struggle to maintain the cleaning performance of their machines while complying with ever stricter energy standards.
A slower cycle, notes a 2016 DOE report, "allows more time for the smaller volume of water to be circulated within the cabinet, helping to maintain wash performance" while decreasing the use of both water and electricity needed to heat that water.
In 2018, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a libertarian think tank, petitioned the Trump administration's DOE to create a new regulatory product class of dishwashers with a default cycle of less than one hour
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Dear so-called “progressives” … short pier, long walk, please take one.
are these like the Al Gore toilets?
It’s Biden’s plan to help college graduates find jobs — businesses will need real people washing dishes. LOL
We’ve got a dishwasher but I never use it. I can stand the noise, and the pain of loading it, unloading it, retrieving silverware that’s been knocked into the pool of water that’s at the bottom, buying the stupid soap, etc.
I just do the dishes in the sink. Takes about five minutes, compared to the 45 minutes of yammering and humming of the dishwasher.
When they can get free money staying at home playing video games?
Nah.
Anyway, we will not need dishwashers at all when there is no food to soil them with (always remember, the government eats first even when nobody else has food).
Our sewer guy says low flow toilets have put his kids through college.
The communist purge now extended to evil household appliances...
Tv, hair dryers, air conditioners, electric tooth brushes, vibrators, computers are all next...
I am actually in the market for a new dishwasher. I will definitely look into a fast cycle model. It’s value will increase if it is banned.
Send your dirty dishes to Joe.
He’ll clean them right up.
With my new dishwasher I end up prewashing most plates because the dishwasher is more of a mere dishrinser. I wonder if the EPA ever calculates all the prewashing that has to be done or just assumes all dirty dishes just have a little squirt of ketchup that needs to be washed off for their standard plate.
Must he interfere with every aspect of our lives.
A couple of months ago my GF wanted to replace her dishwasher and settled on a Bosch model. They are non-existent in the stores. Home Depot won’t even back order them because there isn’t even a dim light at the end of the tunnel for when they will be back in stock.
Same thing for ordering one online.
And, A good friend is an appliance repair guy with 33 years in the biz. He always keeps three new dishwashers in stock in case a customer’s unit can’t economically repaired. A few weeks back he told me his normal supplier is out and that the one place he did find some for sale had them priced twice as high as pre-pandemic. Same thing for repair parts, they are getting harder to find.
Every time I buy a major appliance now I add the 4 year extended warranty because it pays for itself.
I also note that now that the Chinese and Korean manufacturers have driven many American manufacturers almost out of the market the prices are back up to what they were or exceed what the American makers charged. And our government doesn't do jack.
The greatest gift a President could give to his people would be an EO rescinding the infuriating and difficult to use no-spill spout mechanisms on new gasoline cans.
I’ve had to resort to ripping their guts out and using a rubber stopper at the pour tip. The plastic is so cheap the stopper will split the spout-end after a few uses.
Dementia Joe improving our lives one regulation at a time ...
We have had Republican party majorities in both houses and Presidents twice since the 90s and they have never done squat about the grotesque stranglehold on the economy created by the EPA, endangered species act, or other such eco-totalitarianism.
Don’t forget the lovely smell of burning plastic when something falls through onto the heating coil.
The most memorable of those events was when a rubber nipple from a baby bottle melted in half.
always remember, the government eats Prime Rib, even when nobody else has food.
Its not about saving anything - its about making life worse and people more miserable, until they submit to Socialism and a permanent power structure they have no say over.
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