Posted on 04/22/2011 5:14:06 AM PDT by IbJensen
(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who blamed a Department of Energy (DOE) official for his non-functioning toilet a month ago, sees new government efficiency standards as something out of an Ayn Rand novel.
“You restrict my purchases, you don’t care about my choices, you don’t care about the consumer frankly, you raise the cost of the all the items with all your rules, all your notions that you know what’s best for me,” Paul said to DOE Deputy Secretary Kathleen Hogan at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on March 10th.
“Frankly, my toilets don’t work in my house. And I blame you and people like you who want to tell me what I can install in my house, what I can do. You restrict my choices, there is hypocrisy.”
During a Senate hearing on Tuesday to advance legislation that would set new efficiency standards for appliances, Sen. Rand Paul voiced his displeasure with the legislation’s enforcement.
Paul described a scene from the Ayn Rand's 1937 novel ‘Anthem’ in which the protagonist discovers the incandescent light bulb. “He takes it before the collective of elders and they take the light bulb and basically it’s crushed beneath the boot heel of the collective.” “The collective has no place, basically, for individual choice. "Now, I'm not suggesting that this collective is against electricity, per say, or for quashing individualism but I am suggesting that we're against choice."
“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.
Paul offered an amendment that would remove the enforcement authority of a law that imposes efficiency standards on a number of products. Paul’s amendment failed. The efficiency standards bill passed in the committee.
is this one of those committee assignments where the leadership figured he could get into the least amount of trouble?
BTW, could you imagine one of your offspring brining an incandescent to the ruling council and they destroy it? Actually I can. no more easy-bake ovens...gonna need to find another way to keep the water hose from freezing in the barn...
I wish Rand Paul was my senator. Nearly all the rest are worthless idiots.
My toilets don’t work either! Plungers have become a bathroom accessory
Now I know who to bame!
To DOE
Hey, Hey, Good-Bye....FLUSH!
you Government turds
I can imagine someone smashing a “green” lightbulb at the table of the next EPA hearing and watch the roaches dive for cover from the mercury
“Plungers have become a bathroom accessory”.
Isn’t that the truth!! I literally made a special trip to a hardware store so all the bathrooms had its own plunger.
Effing bureaucrats ......EPA is a target for ZERO, ZIP NADA funding if ever there was one.
“My toilets don’t work either!”
They had functioning “green” toilets in KY over a century ago. The problems began to surface when they invented “linoleum” and installed it in the bathroom. It was so popular that they wanted it installed all the way to the house.
Need alot more people in Washington like Rand Paul.
The journolist media would have to cover the hazmat cleanup. The committee room would be unusable and unoccupied for probably weeks. How much would the cleanup cost? Do our reps expect the average American to spend many thousands of cleanup $? Try to imagine how the Left would attempt to defend the imposition of these bulbs. Oh the hypocrisy!
The Left are pros at the contrived photo event. We should do something similar and your idea is it!
Ping to Loudmime.
We need more that think like Ron Paul also!
Algore.
The size of the toilet water reservoir was determined by that great scientist and inventor of internet and gorebal warming, Al Gore.
Why, before you flush your toilet it seems as though you can see his face in the matter you’re flushing.
And here I thought it was just my teenagers not being toilet trained
I’ver got two toilets, two plungers, gonna write Harry Reid on one plunger, and Nancy Pelosi on the other
“Oooops”
Got to work on that spelling, it is algore. That is also what you flush, “algore”
I don't want anyone telling me what toilet to use, but I now have several of these that flush great with 1.5 gallons of water. With the price of water these days, I'm happy.
http://www.terrylove.com/crtoilet.htm
Iunderstand the Democrat toilets back up more frequently - we know they at full of Bull$hit!
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