Originally published at: Beyond Showerheads: Trump’s Attempts to Kill Appliance Regulations Cause Chaos - TPM – Talking Points Memo
This story first appeared at ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Donald Trump makes no secret of his loathing for regulations that limit water and energy use by home appliances. For years, he has regaled supporters at…
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When I was a kid, we always ran out of hot water in the morning. In my house now, despite having a larger family, we don’t run out of hot water. Our water heater is not bigger than the one at The house I grew up at.
Why would I want to go back to my childhood of frozen showers because I was always the last to wake up?
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YES! Let’s get radiation emissions from Microwave Ovens jacked up to critically unhealthy levels - Tucker Carlson can then sit “man-spreading” next to an oven & achieve what ever that lunatic imagines it will do for him.
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Don’t you understand - that was all a part of the “GREATNESS” that he wants to take us back to … measles, polio , segregation, massive cigarette smoking - all “AGAIN”
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Trump’s signing of multiple “executive orders” is a form of masturbation, i.e. infantile self-pleasuring. To hold up the EO after signing it for all to see is akin to a grade school “show and tell.” Donnie, at his core, is very insecure.
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You know how to get good water pressure? You live at the bottom of the hill where the water tank is located at the top of the hill. I’d be glad to shove DonOLD in my downstairs bathroom shower (original from the 1961), the water pressure would melt all that orange goop off in a minute.
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DonOLD thinks that he’s CEO of the USA.
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If Trump needs that many flushes every thing he says and eats turns to sh*t .
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THIS man is the president elected by the Republicans… I hope they are all proud of what he thinks is important, and know that everything Trump does THEY own.
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And he’s always been the shittier kind of CEO, too.
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I understand from industry sources that the status of the Guidehouse contract is not publicly known. It apparently was put on the DOGE list and then removed. It would be a pity if it were cancelled. While I do not always agree with the Guidehouse people (I have worked with them for nearly 30 years), they are principled people and are doing work that needs to be done.
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And in MAGA land, that’s at least two strikes against them, right there.
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More shite for the VFW hardons.
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If it takes that long to flush something away, maybe he should stop speaking into it.
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Looking at all Trump is doing and has done, it does seem that CHAOS is the point.
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I have had energy efficient light bulbs for about the last 20 years. And I have had shower heads that save water possibly as long as I had the above light bulbs and toilets that save water. In California these devices have been around for a long time. So what if the dishwasher has a longer cycle.
Lower bills are a plus. Never have I had to stay under the shower head for a longer time. A bunch of snowflakes complain about stupid issues.
Every day my anger accelerates. Trying to carve out time to forget about this country coming apart.
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The whole admin is filled with liars and charlatans. I’m old enough to remember Michelle Bachman campaigning against longer last light bulbs, AFTER manufacturers had already retooled their plants to phase out incandescent bulbs.
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This is about a pet peeve Trump has had about energy efficient appliances. He tried to kill EnergyStar ratings during his first reign but lost interest. Manufacturers like the ratings. Consumers like the ratings. Nobody’s lobbying Trump to eliminate them.
Why doesn’t Donald like them?
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Manufacturers wanting to sell to anybody outside the White House will disregard all these deranged “executive orders.” For that matter, ALL the eos that are sharpie-scrawled by the infant convict in chief should be ignored. They’re all illegal – and stupid, too.
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The battle about energy efficiency standards is at its core one between lowering initial purchase price of household appliances and minimizing lifetime purchase plus operating costs. Trump is the champion of lowest initial purchase price, with no thought to quality or operating costs. Below is an older article from the 1990s, but sums up a dynamic we see today. Note the enormous potential savings in the last sentence.
“Appliance and Equipment Efficiency Standards: History, Impacts, Current Status, and Future Directions Steven Nadel American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
David Goldstein
It has been more than twenty years since the first appliance efficiency standards were enacted in the United States. In the initial years appliance standard discussions were marked by bitter debates but by the early 1990s a middle ground had been found in which manufacturers, states, and energy efficiency advocates often worked together to negotiate consensual national efficiency standards that preempted standards set by states. Standards set in this manner are producing substantial reductions in US energy use (more than 2.5 percent of US energy use, once existing standards are fully implemented) while maintaining a benefit-cost ratio of more than 3: 1.
In 1994/1995, this apparent [consensus] broke down, due to some particularly controversial draft standards the US Department of Energy (DOE) proposed in early 1994 and also due to the NoveInber 1994 election after which nletnbers opposed to regulation took hold of Congress. Equipment manufacturers sought to take advantage of this new state of affairs and incapacitate the standards prograln. As of early 1996, Congress had imposed a one-year moratorium on setting new standards, and DOE also had developed, with extensive stakeholder input, a series of reforlns to improve the standard-setting process. Substantial savings are at stake-standards now under developlnent could reduce projected US energy use by nlore than 1.5 percent, raising total savings to nlore than 4 percent of uS energy use.”
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