[PROCON]

We are taking away people’s freedom to choose what products they want to buy. We talk about efficiency but nobody seems to care about whether the products are effective or what the consumer thinks of the products or what the consumer would buy, this is what the marketplace usually determines,” Paul added.

Excellent point, the Nanny-State at it's worst.

[fatnotlazy]

Given that this is one of my favorite topics — government-mandated low flow toilets which don’t flush — I think I like Rand Paul.

[Dr. Sivana]

I think Dave Barry has found his presidential candidate.

img src="http://www.davebarry.com/president/dave2k/columns/nov29.htm">

I'm on board . . . I had to go all the way to Windsor, Ontario for the toilets in the house I built in 2006. I am NOT making this up.

[JPG]

With the mandated low water toilets, it will take two flushes to get rid of the current regime. The first flush was in 2010 and we can't wait to flush again in 2012.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Speaking of toilets, the low flow toilets we have nowadays just don’t work as well as the old style ones.

I understand that they use less water per flush, however, depending on what you are flushing, you can end up flushing or using a plunger two or three times to get the job done.

Just my observation, on the real world functioning of something which was done, with the best of intentions of saving water and helping the environment and all that.

[DesertRhino]

Ok,,light bulbs, shower heads, toilets, what other normal innocent products have been deemed illegal by the people’s dictatorship in DC?

[teeman8r]

what is interesting is that septic systems seem to need more water to process the waste, and the low flush, i believe, is responsible for the failure of septic systems not breaking down the “solids”

teeman

[GOPJ]

He needs to remember these too...

Toxic light bulbs that give off creepy light

Automatic dishwasher detergent that doesn’t clean

French fries that are tasteless

Cars that catch fire when plugged in

Higher food prices

etc.

etc.

[AmericanVictory]

Since its creation under Jeemy, the DOE has steadily presided over an ever increasing demand on foreign oil. Its grants have been corrupt and counerproductive and its promotion of ethanol a giant boondoggle. Eliminating it might lead to an actual increase in our own production and would certainly cut unnecessary spending.

[Afterguard]

Amen. Has anybody else been afflicted with a new “high efficiency” clothes washer? What a piece of crap these things are. They use almost no water and the almost don’t wash clothes. Their spin cycle is shorter so the clothes are wetter when they go into the dryer, so the dryer runs longer to achieve a n acceptable level of dryness.

Don’t even get me started on the phosphate-free crap that passes for clothes and dish detergent. . . .

Must. Be. Stopped.

[BipolarBob]

When we run out of toilet paper and have toilets that don’t flush, we will have achieved communism.

[RightGeek]

My favorite story is this one from a few years back about some folks who sold their house but took their old toilets with them due to the "sentimental value" - http://countrystore.blogspot.com/2002/10/canadian-toilet-smugglers-alert-what.html