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“No credible scientific body,” wrote energy and environmental researcher Michael Shellenberger in 2019, “has ever said climate change threatens the collapse of civilization much less the extinction of the human species.” In fact, the whole idea that temperatures are rising to catastrophic levels is based on circular reasoning. But the Biden regime is all in on the climate change myth, and as always, ordinary Americans are the ones who have to pay the price. The latest manifestation of this comes in the form of new regulations for washing machines that make them work less well. Ready to stink to save the planet? You may have no choice.
The Washington Free Beacon reported Monday that Old Joe Biden’s Energy Department “last month proposed new efficiency standards for washing machines that would require new appliances to use considerably less water, all in an effort to ‘confront the global climate crisis.’ Those mandates would force manufacturers to reduce cleaning performance to ensure their machines comply, leading industry giants such as Whirlpool said in public comments on the rule. They’ll also make the appliances more expensive and laundry day a headache—each cycle will take longer, the detergent will cost more, and in the end, the clothes will be less clean, the manufacturers say.” America, welcome to managed decline.
The idea that this is a sacrifice that we all have to make for a green future is preposterous, not only because the planet will not be saved by Americans suffering less efficient washing machines, but because many people are likely to deal with their new, poorly working machines by running the clothes through again. Thus washing clothes will not only take longer because the machines don’t work as well as older machines, but because people will wash their clothes twice. Thus more water will end up being used, and the net benefit to the climate will be less than zero. But all this really isn’t about saving energy anyway.
Washing machine manufacturers are apparently already implementing the Biden regime’s new regulations. The Free Beacon recounts that a firefighter in Cincinnati “bought a high efficiency Whirlpool washing machine” but quickly discovered that “high efficiency” in 2023 doesn’t mean what it did even just a few years ago. He “came to regret the decision almost immediately,” because “the machine used less water,” in fact, so much less that his work clothes didn’t end up clean. “His colleagues at the firehouse quickly took notice. ‘I walked past my guys and they say, “Dude, you stink!” I smelled myself, and yeah, that’s me stinking.’” Truer words have rarely been spoken: “Dude, you stink!” could be the epitaph of the entire Biden administration.
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SKA says
We went through this idiocy before with flush toilets. Congress and downstream regulators reduced the amount of water per flush. Net result? Americans would use multiple flushes for each time they used a toilet.
kenneth Nightingale says
We have cretinous humans making rules for the rest of us to follow. There is no democracy.
Namer says
Europeans have been putting up with this for years. Takes all day to do one US standard load.
BTW the guys cloths are stinking because the low water use machines cant completely flush out the detergent and fabric softer. You have to use a washer cleaner at least monthly to get it out so your cloths dont stink.
wpm says
These idiots if they spend time and money on up grading treatment centers for sewage and storm drains in the Americas (both North and South) they would make the world a better place. If the machine take longer to go thru a cycle they use more electricity ? AS banks go bust, millions of illegal aliens go across our borders ,WW111 is on the edge ,in blue cities crime is thru the roof ,they are working on what goes on in our washing machines??
somehistory says
It once was that toilets flushed, but newer ones use a whole lot less water…which creates the need to use extra flushes.; thus more water.
If a washer leaves clothes stinky, then it will require the one doing laundry to wash everything multiple times to get rid of dirt, stains and odors.
If biden, pelosi, schumer, yellen, and all the other corrupt dictators were forced to use the new machines, they could all smell as they do metaphorically.
On a similar note,
“GOP bill would force Mayorkas to fly commercial until he comes up with a border plan
No more taxpayer-funded flights on executive jets ‘until he does his job'”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-bill-forces-mayorkas-fly-commercial-comes-up-border-plan
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Why don’t they just go to the nearest creek and wash their clothes there, banging them against the rocks and breaking buttons in the process? Start emulating BIPOC people from Third World Countries. Soaps are optional, unless they can find organic biodegradable soaps that they can wash w/