Ireland Owens
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President Donald Trump is calling for the reversal of several Biden-era green energy regulations on household appliances.
Trump announced in a Tuesday post on Truth Social that he was directing Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Secretary Lee Zeldin to begin reversing water standard regulations on household appliances including sinks, dishwashers, showers and washing machines. Trump’s announcement comes after he has enacted a slew of executive actions since returning to the White House aimed at overturning many Biden-era green energy policies.
“I am hereby instructing Secretary Lee Zeldin to immediately go back to my Environmental Orders, which were terminated by Crooked Joe Biden, on Water Standards and Flow pertaining to SINKS, SHOWERS, TOILETS, WASHING MACHINES, DISHWASHERS, etc., and to likewise go back to the common sense standards on LIGHTBULBS, that were put in place by the Trump Administration, but terminated by Crooked Joe,” Trump wrote in the Truth Social post. “I look forward to signing these Orders. THANK YOU!!!”
Former President Joe Biden introduced various green energy regulations as part of his signature climate agenda, including tightening energy efficiency regulations on a range of household appliances including dishwashers, gas stoves, light bulbs and water heaters.
Since Trump returned to the Oval Office on Jan. 20, the Trump-Vance administration has made several moves to roll back Biden’s energy policies, including moving to scrap the Biden-Harris administration’s strict fuel economy standards for vehicles and halting funding for the Biden-Harris administration’s electric vehicle charging network program. The president also signed an executive order on Jan. 20 to “unleash” America’s “affordable and reliable energy and natural resources.”
“In recent years, burdensome and ideologically motivated regulations have impeded the development of these resources, limited the generation of reliable and affordable electricity, reduced job creation, and inflicted high energy costs upon our citizens,” Trump stated in the executive order. “These high energy costs devastate American consumers by driving up the cost of transportation, heating, utilities, farming, and manufacturing, while weakening our national security.”
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Finally. Sanity.
Otherwise known as common sense.
Bringing back incandescent lights? The future is definitely looking brighter!
Yes, the Biden erasure seems to be progressing apace.
if i were an appliance maker i’d be terrified of re-starting my 15,000 btu gas cooktop line, because, once the bidenites return to power I am going bankrupt.
But i appreciate the 4 years grace period to buy one (remodeling in a couple years) as well as a new 6.7 liter diesel powerstroke.
I’m thinking there won’t be a “return to power” in four years. In any case I’ve some breathing room to change my range and my furnace heater.
I used to swear by gas hobs, but for the last 30 years have been using electric by compulsion. Awful to use, but my wife is asthmatic and found a gas cooker was a contributory factor.
Recently we bought an induction hob, amongst much grumbling from me. Turned out to be one of our better decisions. It’s at least as fast and controllable as gas, the pot and the contents are the only thing heated, and no risk of a gas leak. It boils a pot of water faster than any gas cooker I have used, and the hob won’t heat up if switched on unless it detects a suitable metal pot on it.
We found a couple of our ancient pots wouldn’t work, so ditched our 35 year old set and bought new ones. Not necessary as most of them did work, but it was time for a change anyway.
They are not for everyone, especially where electricity costs are high (ours in the UK are amongst the highest in the developed world and I think about 4 times of that in the US) but well worth considering when the opportunity presents itself.
I think eliminating the office that wrote the “efficiency”, actually climate change, standards is more important.
“The Market” will introduce efficiency.
I can remember small gas lights on the walls of my great aunt’s home. The place smelled and my sister and I did not like going there.** Our house had incandescent lights. Now I have nearly flush lights that turn on, change color, and off with a wave of my hand.
**”Spring Cleaning” involved using a soft putty-like compound to rub on the walls and remove the grit and the smell. See: Play-Doh
Dear President Trump,
Please also eliminate the war on sanely designed gasoline cans.
https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/blog/detail/when-government-wrecked-the-gas-canhttps://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1bgztc3/these_ridiculous_gas_cans_with_safety_spouts/https://freethepeople.org/why-your-new-gas-can-is-ridiculous-and-evil/https://steemit.com/homesteading/@winstonalden/overcoming-the-safety-features-that-are-trying-to-kill-us-a-fuel-can-review
Sincerely,
Dave
i wish i could up vote x 1000 dave!
yes and toasters that actually work like in the 50s
Beware of old toasters. I had one that still worked, but when I was dumping the crumbs out of the crumb tray I noticed that the woven (fiberglass?) insulating sleeves on the 110v wires inside the toaster were disintegrating, and most of the wires were just naked, flopping around perilously near the metal fame and body. I hate throwing things away, but that toaster was toast.
Dualit toasters are almost unchanged since the 1950’s or so, other than essential upgrades.
The beauty of them is, every individual component can be changed including the casings and heating elements (cassette type, for want of a better description) and even the mechanical timing switch, for not a lot of money. Not an LED panel or digital component to be seen.
https://www.dualit.com/collections/toasters
In the meantime, you can get the good old flexible spout for a few bucks online.
Thanks, Mark! I’d not seen that.
Thanks to you, I just ordered 3x “Set Gas Can Nozzle with Screw Collar Caps Anti Spill Gas Can Vent Replacement Gas Can Spouts for Most” on AliExpress. It even comes with a drill bit for adding the missing vent hole.
(I wonder if the spout has a screen to filter out the shards of plastic from drilling the vent hole? 🤔)
Glad to help. It is amazing how many EPA and other “environMENTAL” actions do more harm than good. I have spilled more gas with the new atrocity than I ever did with the old design. Same with many other products. They produce waste and frustration but do nothing to help the “planet.”
You can rinse out the can after drilling with 200 proof ethanol to flush out the shards. That’s standard denatured alcohol, then let it evaporate before refilling with gas. I would drill it by hand. Power tools near gasoline fumes is risky.
Good idea. Fortunately, I have a battery-free cordless drill, like this one:
Ugh! That was four separate links in a bullet-list, when I posted it. Let’s try it a different way…
• https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/blog/detail/when-government-wrecked-the-gas-can
• https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1bgztc3/these_ridiculous_gas_cans_with_safety_spouts/
• https://freethepeople.org/why-your-new-gas-can-is-ridiculous-and-evil/
• https://steemit.com/homesteading/@winstonalden/overcoming-the-safety-features-that-are-trying-to-kill-us-a-fuel-can-review
Biden never made any physical sense. My favorite example was the pre-Biden EU ban on tea kettles over x watts (1500?), without also regulating the kettle size.
By well established laws of physics, to boil water from room temperature takes x energy. So if you have 2x water in kettle, it will take 2x energy no matter the EU. So if you want 2 cups of tea instead of one, you simply have to use the one cup tea kettle twice. Saving nothing energy wise. And EU did not also regulate kettle size to a plausible 2 cups. Nope. Any size, just limited heat input.
Equally stupid was the NY attempt to outlaw gas ranges in favor of electrics. In the usual case, a gas range is nearly 100% efficient. Almost all the heat goes to cooking. With an electric range using CCGT, about 30% is lost to CCGT and another 30% to T&D thermal losses. So rather than a stove with near 100% thermal efficiency, you end up with about (.7*.7) 50% from the same most efficient energy source. ( And for those that say, but renewables, you cannot cook at night using solar, nor on any day when the wind is not blowing.)
In a related example, my newest Wisconsin farm propane furnace is 95%efficient—so much so, that without the related electric blowers the exhaust could not exit. Our farm furnace backup is not batteries. It is wood fired furnaces and stoves until the electricity is restored. With 8 dried and split face cords in the cellar next to the double walled firebox furnace alternative. Let it snow.
For the similar reasons, my newish Chicagoland townhome hot water and heat furnaces are intentionally ‘only’ 85% efficient. The difference is, at 85% I don’t have to reline the old 1970 chimney flues with winter insulation to prevent exhaust water vapor freeze up, so the 10% energy loss has paid for itself several times over in avoided flue lining capital cost.
Math is not hard. Critical thinking is.
Environmental activists, and even activists posing as scientists no nothing of “sense”, physical, common, practical, etc.
I have no problem with CO2, the more the merrier for plants and plankton, but even I thought the eco-nazis going after home heating and cooking was just shooting the whole transition fantasy in the foot. There’s not enough electricity to handle electrification of transportation and they are going to impoverish everyone and blow the grid by forcing electrification of heat??
One blackout in winter and millions would die. At least if it happened now, one could light the cooktop with a barbecue starter and get buy until the utilities fix the electricity. That is, as long as the gas utility wasn’t forced to use outside electricity from the grid, instead of the gas in their own pipes, to pump the gas along!
What will happen in California? Sacramento area Home Depots are already advertising some gas hot water heaters as “Unavailable in California”. I also just received notice from the trash company about separate organic/food waste collection due to methane. This means where I live most of it will just be tossed on the side of the road.
Buy the stuff you want in Nevada. Sure you have to drive a little, but just tell them you don’t have any fruits on the way back in and they wave you right through.
Unfortunately Trump can’t lift state, county or city bans on gas appliances. Congress can and should.
I don’t think Congress can do that. The federal government only has Constitutional authority to regulate interstate and international commerce, and according to longstanding precedent the States (or local gov’ts) can ban whatever they wish, as long as they don’t discriminate against goods from other States. So, for example, even though the federal gov’t legalized booze, some counties remain “dry.” So if idiotic California lawmakers want to ban ICE-powered cars, they can, and Congress has no power to prevent it.
“This means where I live most of it will just be tossed on the side of the road.”
Hey, they are just trying to feed the homeless street people. !
Can we get someone to manufacture 1500w toasters again? It would be nice to get hot toast that actually melts butter in a couple of minutes instead of cold toast in 10 minutes.
Funny that you should ask… we’ve gone from toasters to toaster oven (with a faulty timer that would just stop) to air fryer and recently bought a larger air fryer/convection oven thingy instead of having multiple items on the counter. The toaster setting is useless, programmed by someone whose knowledge of toast comes from comic books, even on the darkest setting does no good – so I just used the air fryer setting for instant toast!
Convection oven setting for the more timid.
agree 100%. i remember when toasting just two slices could blow the fuse or trip a breaker. making good toast is an art form. crispy golden brown on both sides with a hot soft center. now it take 6 minutes to get to the golden brown and the center is rock hard and dry. i have a real problem with this.
All part of the MAGA agenda. Energy independence and abundance. Abolish all federal totalitarian mandates relating to consumer goods, from cars to kettles.
Throw out the green new deal, scrap and immediately stop all federal funding to the renewable & other ‘climate driven’ ‘green’ energy frauds. Stop funding the Chinese renewable energy industry.
Wind back onerous green and red tape, approve FF projects ASAP, incentivize & encourage large investments in oil, gas & coal. Develop the latest technologies and capabilities in the nuclear energy space. Drive down prices, with abundant reliable baseload power.
It can’t be stated often enough; energy underpins every aspect of a modern industrial economy.
More good news.
Wealth creation is a function of readily available reliable energy at affordable prices.
It is not rocket science, as Elon Musk might say.
Is the auto industry next or has that already been done? The regulaions have made engines and transmissions rediculously complex and unreliable. Even Toyotas burn oil now. No inprovements in real life use.
Bring back compact fluorescent bulbs! Surely only a few hundred billion of these mercury filled bulbs made it to land fills. Mercury bulbs to save the environment!
MTBE to improve the air quality….
Kristie Noem.. DHS Secretary
DHS Aligns With Trump’s Agenda, Ends Climate Change Activities Across Divisions – Climate Change Dispatch