We all know the routine. Water-saving toilets that don’t flush (flush twice), water/energy-saving dishwashers and clothes washers that don’t clean (run two cycles), lightbulbs that don’t light, dryers that don’t dry (run twice), and all the ancillary nonsense that comes from the intervention of the regulatory state.
What Biden and the progressive movement call the “green new deal” effort toward “sustainability,” including the ban on gas stoves and internal combustion engines, simply results in a diminished quality of life, a loss in lifestyle productivity, and the exact opposite outcome from their expressed/intended purpose. It’s an abject mess of stupidity, pushed under the guise of environmentalism.
Today the Biden Dept of Energy (DOE) takes it one step further with rules and regulations on fridges, freezers and fans. {DOE LINK}
Residential Refrigerators and Freezers – The efficiency standards being adopted today for residential refrigerators, refrigerator-freezers, and freezers, which have not been updated in over a decade, align with recommendations from a diverse set of stakeholders, including manufacturers, the manufacturing trade association, energy, environmental, and consumer advocacy groups, states, and utilities. Compliance will be required either January 31, 2029, or January 31, 2030, depending on the configuration of the refrigerator or freezer. The energy savings over 30 years of shipments is 5.6 quadrillion British thermal units, which represents a savings of 11% relative to the energy use of products currently on the market. DOE estimates that the standards would save consumers $36.4 billion over 30 years of shipments and result in cumulative emission reductions of nearly 101 million metric tons of carbon dioxide—an amount roughly equivalent to the combined annual emissions of 12.7 million homes.
Commercial Fans and Blowers – DOE also released a proposed rulemaking for commercial fans and blowers that would reduce energy costs for American businesses by $3.3 billion annually. This proposal—the first federal standard for this product—follows the lead of efficiency standards already established by the state of California for general fans, extending savings to consumers nationwide and providing clarity for manufacturers. If adopted within DOE’s proposed timeframe, the new rule will come into effect in 2029. DOE estimates the new rule will reduce utility costs for American businesses by nearly $56 billion over 30 years of shipments, while reducing carbon dioxide emissions by nearly 318 million metric tons—an amount roughly equivalent to the combined annual emissions of 40 million homes. (MORE)
Now we will see air conditioning units that don’t cool, fridges that don’t chill, freezers that don’t keep things frozen and fans that do not move air.
Eventually, the compliant generations still to come will be sitting around a campfire eating sustainable algae cakes and bugs, while picking parasites off each other, because progress, environmental justice – or ESG something.
Why do I have 5 gallon toilets in my house you might ask? Because they flipping work. Note: it’s not green to flush 1.5 gallon toilet 2-3 times.
Planet killer! Just kidding, teeheeeheeee …
My blueMA suburban town adds another wrinkle – forced subsidized housing and now shipments of illegals have overtaxed the town sewer system to its max.
I have one older (presumably pre-nonsense but don’t know, it’s at least 13 years old) and one slightly newer toilet that I had installed. They have never worked great but as of a couple of years ago with all this, they barely work at all.
Oh and none of the green garbage “works.” We know why – it’s fully intended not to work -just to increase chaos.
No, they really think this crap works. Unfortunately, “works” is based on an abnormal lifestyle.
For example: 30 years ago we used to go to the edge of Boundary Waters YMCA camp Widjiwagan in winter. They had rules and signs all over the place telling a group of adults what to do. The bathrooms had a sign “If it’s yellow let it mellow, if it’s brown flush it down”. disgusting! The showers had some crap about how great cold showers were.
No alcohol allowed and food had no meat until we asked for it. Then we just got some veggie meatloaf you could barely tell had meat in it.
All the workers were stinky long haired freaks that treated us like they were much better than us. Once we found out the staff took longer hot showers than us, we broke out the beer from our parking lot vehicles and started pounding them down until the staff came out and told us to stop. We just moved to the road and told them they couldn’t stop us from drinking on a public road.
So, if you wear your clothes for a week, never flush toilets, don’t refrigerate dairy or meat, and think sweating cleans your pores, these regulations are just long time dreams of the greeniacs that don’t really affect them. They just want to control you.
They ‘believe’, they don’t ‘think’.. 😉
Double bag your solid waste in kitchen garbage bags. Make a midnight run and drop them in the illegals’ neighboorhood with a note attached, “Just like home”.
I’ll never forget the first house I bought with low flow toilets. HORRIBLE. You can’t even really say you just flush twice. You clean them every day or have disgusting bathrooms. One of the stupidest ideas ever and then they just double down. It would have been much better to simply declare we all had to have composting toilets. At least that would have been an actual step in the direction that they said we were being forced to go.
I live in Californika, the communist state of, that is, and I have a shower head that allows me to actually get wet and clean.
Please don’t tell the authorities. Thanks!
The Seinfeld shower head episode ridiculed the “improved” ones mercilessly – well worth watching.
Ahhh yes, the Commando-450. I doubt the flow rate of this thing complies with any municipal, county, state, or provincial code in the U.S. or Canada, and that’s what makes it great. It feels like showers used to. If feels like a shower should. Designed originally to be used by the circus to clean elephants, this thing will practically blow you out of the shower. Highly recommend it!
Q. So, how do we keep our food from rotting? A. You are going to starve or maybe Klaus’s bugs don’t need refrigeration. Oh, and fk Mexico. That’s the country for which we should at war.
You are supposed to walk to your corner store and buy just what you need for the day. Every day:
15 minute cities and all that.
You need to get educated. Mexico us a Christian nation believes in God. USA? No more. Your problems are from dc
We have plenty of problems coming straight from Mexico so don’t act like the Mexican drug cartels are a bunch of angels. Yes DC causes most of the issues but don’t act like Mexico is on some kind of moral high ground when you have cartels murdering hundreds of people and shipping poison across the border to kill 10’s of thousands of Americans. The US should bomb the crap out of Mexico over the illegal drug trade and their complete failure to do anything at all about it. Tell me is the Mexican government in the Fentanyl business with China and the CCP ?
I have a dishwasher that takes 2.5 hour to run a normal cycle. A washing machine that takes 2.25 hours to run one load. A toilet that must be flushed 3 times and then run the water extra while washing hands.Everyone is doing it so how is this possibly accomplishing anything. Oh, forgot I have $9 light bulbs that last as long as the old $1 ones. As a side note, here in my little California town there is an entrepreneur who collects old washers and dryers. Fixes them and resells them. He has a waiting list for people who want to buy them. It’s like Cuba with their old muscle cars that they keep repairing because that’s all they have. Our world is upside down and getting worse by the day
Remember when we were a free country and the government didn’t dictate what appliances we could have in our homes, and what cars we could drive? I cannot understand how ANYONE in America can support the dictatorial Democrats- all they have to do is compare today with how things were 3 and a half years ago: NO wars; cheap and plentiful gas ($2.19/gallon for Premium in CA – the state where gas is most expensive); our allies worked with us and were paying their fair share, our enemies feared us (Putin did NOT invade Ukraine while Trump was in the White House)……and despite how the Dems are trying to cook up criminal trials to tie Trump’s hands- it’s the BIDENS who will be facing criminal trials and will be found guilty- they have been running a pay-for play international con game for the past decade.
These people need to be taught a lesson they’ll never forget. Time in the slammer is a good start, though not likely to erase the moral rot in their souls and minds.
Oh…we are well beyond the slammer….NO MERCY
I’m still mad that I can’t find regular light bulbs. Seriously, how do we stop this craziness?
Mexico….has em’
F these Crap Weasels
I hate democrats
Ive asked dozens of times in different site.WHY doesn’t the USA have a green net zero immigration policy?? Importing millions of people who exhale,drive,use heat,air conditioning etc is added lots of ‘carbon ‘ into the atmosphere and warming things up.Stop the imports deport the illegals .our carbon footprint will shrink .Its a club they’ve handed us.Lets beat them senseless with it.
the Biden administration is destroying the economy with their new laws forcing companies to do things that they have found the customer does not want and does not want to pay extra for. Just look at what they did to the Car dealers with the electric vehicles. Their lots are full of these ticking bombs which very few people want to buy.