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Energy Department Says It Has ‘Mandate’ to Force ‘Market Transformation’ for Household Appliances
CNSNews ^ | September 17, 2010 | Penny Starr

Posted on 09/17/2010 2:43:45 PM PDT by jazusamo

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To: Eagle Eye
" It’s for our own good, ya know. "

How is the cardboard box house and soup can stove market coming along ? .....
They won't be happy until we become exstint, living out of caves, or in cardboard box houses... no, wait, cardboard ? nope, not environmentally friendly ya know.
81 posted on 09/17/2010 4:29:55 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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To: jazusamo
ALL YOU STINKING WASHINGTON POLITICIONS LIVING IN NICE HOMES, DRIVING BMWS, WHILE YOU ARE DRIVING US TO THE POOR HOUSE !
82 posted on 09/17/2010 4:33:12 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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To: jazusamo

No doubdt about it, these people are delusional, stupid and insane. This is an extremely dangerous combination.


83 posted on 09/17/2010 4:34:08 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
The Global Warming deception is a precursor of how it's going to be when the fooled people will be deceived by the anti-Christ.
84 posted on 09/17/2010 4:36:57 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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To: American Constitutionalist
soup can stove

Here you go. Using the tin foil on your head build one of these:


85 posted on 09/17/2010 4:40:27 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Madame Dufarge

I can sympathize! Got a little different story.

A year or so ago within about a month our toaster and coffee maker that we’d had for years died. The wife replaced both with good named brands (several times) and they’d just die too, like in a few days. Of course the store would replace them but she was getting tired of returning them.

She finally replaced each one with the cheapest Chinese junk she could find, no bells and whistles, just bare bones products and they’re still working just fine.

Can’t remember the cost of the coffee maker but it was cheap. I specifically remember the cost of the toaster, retail was $9.99 and the store had it on sale for a dollar off. LOL!


86 posted on 09/17/2010 4:41:54 PM PDT by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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To: American Constitutionalist

They know what’s best for us.


87 posted on 09/17/2010 4:42:43 PM PDT by Eagle Eye (A blind clock finds a nut at least twice a day.)
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To: jazusamo

These people are really starting to piss me off.


88 posted on 09/17/2010 4:43:34 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th
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To: jazusamo

These people are really starting to piss me off.


89 posted on 09/17/2010 4:43:43 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Nurse Ratched .....


90 posted on 09/17/2010 4:45:48 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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To: jazusamo
"we can actually just issue regulations and do market transformation."

This is outright totalitarian government. It must be abolished or we will be living in the 1960's equivalent of the USSR/Cuba/China. Can you imagine how these people talk in private if this is what they are willing to say publicly?

91 posted on 09/17/2010 4:49:28 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: AndyJackson

Kinda limits our diet in what we can cook with that sunstove.


92 posted on 09/17/2010 4:55:12 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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To: jazusamo

I have a “mandate” as well. It’s called the Second Amendment.


93 posted on 09/17/2010 5:01:11 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: jazusamo
"Energy Department Says It Has ‘Mandate’ to Force ‘Market Transformation’ for Household Appliances"

The HELL they do!

Just where do they suppose said "mandate" comes from?

94 posted on 09/17/2010 5:03:53 PM PDT by Mariner (USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
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To: jazusamo
They keep it up and we'll have to move from the ballot box to full-on TRIALS and HANGINGS ON THE CAPITOL STEPS.

This scourge must be eliminated...this thinking that unelected administrators have the power to do whatever they wish. And, that thinking ORIGINATES in both the White House and the Congress.

These people must learn fear of THE people.

95 posted on 09/17/2010 5:06:52 PM PDT by Mariner (USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
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To: AndyJackson

I just might make a solar cooker like that and see what it can do.


96 posted on 09/17/2010 5:10:24 PM PDT by dennisw (-He who will not economize will have to agonize----- Confucius)
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To: NEMDF
"There will be fines (taxes?) for not buying the appropriate appliances."

No, they'll simply tell the appliance dealers that they can no longer sell the old type. I ran into this a couple of years ago.

The house we bought (western Washington) came with an electric forced-air furnace, but not air conditioning. For the most part, where we are AC isn't really needed but a few days out of the year.

But my wife and I have bad inhalant allergies, and need to keep the house "buttoned up", even in summer. The contractor who designed and built the house installed an AC heat exchanger coil in the electric furnace ducting, so all we "should" have had to do was buy the compressor, have it installed and wired up, and hooked up to the already-installed heat exchanger coils.

BUT NOBODY WOULD SELL ME THE APPROPRIATE COMPRESSOR! "We can't install those any more due to new energy efficiency standards".

So we had to have the whole system replaced. The new heat pump works well, and it "has" dropped our monthly bills, but I was NOT happy about being FORCED to make that change.

And I suspect much more and more onerous things from the future unless we throw the socialists and their eco-commie allies out of office.....permanently.

97 posted on 09/17/2010 5:11:23 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog
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To: jazusamo
Zoi said that stricter federal energy efficiency standards will “drive innovation”out of the country and are “cost effective for third world manufacturers.”

Fixed part of it.
98 posted on 09/17/2010 5:30:11 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media. There are Wars and Rumors of War.)
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To: jazusamo

I wonder what her house looks like. I wonder what kind of car she drives. I wonder where she goes for vacation — putzing around the garden at home and relaxing, or jetting off to some exotic location?


99 posted on 09/17/2010 5:33:06 PM PDT by Cloverfarm (This too shall pass ...)
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To: jazusamo

I don’t WANT a high efficiency toaster.


100 posted on 09/17/2010 5:40:25 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is <strike>fading</strike>gone.)
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