Obama Admin Seeks to Further Ruin Our Dishwashers

Chris | InformationLiberation
Jul. 21, 2015

Government regulations have already ruined our dishwashers. The need to wash dishes twice or pre-wash is already an entrenched reality due to previous regulations which pushed washer makers to use only a paltry 6.5 gallons a wash, now the bureaucrats at the Department of Energy want washers to use only a pathetic 3.1 gallons, and the industry is freaking out.

From The Hill:

Companies that make dishwashers are warning that the Obama administration’s latest efficiency standards for their industry would backfire.

The Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers is accusing the Department of Energy (DOE) of a politically motivated drive to increase dishwasher efficiency standards, which are so bad that they would cause consumers to re-wash dishes, erasing any efficiency gains.

Rob McAver, the group’s head lobbyist, said regulators are going too far and the new rules will allow only 3.1 gallons to be used to wash each load of dishes.

“At some point, they’re trying to squeeze blood from a stone that just doesn’t have any blood left in it,” McAver said.

Some of the group’s members, which include companies like GE Appliances & Lighting and Whirlpool Corp., tweaked their models to comply with the DOE’s December proposal to ratchet up standards.

They then ran standard tests with food stuck to dishes.

“They found some stuff that was pretty disgusting,” McAver said.

Fact is, there is no need for an army of bureaucrats to tell producers how to make their dishwashers. Dishwashers should be made to satisfy the demands of consumers, not the demands of bureaucrats. While they tout the new regulations would "save 240 billion gallons of water over a 30-year period" -- or just 8 billion gallons a year in normal speak -- that is nothing compared to how much would be saved by firing the entire Department of Energy and having all their workers get real jobs.