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.
They still have green toilets in KY and a few other states as well. Governments do not like them. They are safe and natural. Anything good for people and the environment needs to be controlled by a massive bureaucracy. Toilet detail is perfect work for government.
the toilet is only part of the problem. Did you see the story about San Fran a few weeks ago that there is not enough water clearing out the “sludge” from the sewer lines and they are starting the have major problems with blockages? (ok, ok , insert your jokes here)
The bulbs are cheap.
I wonder what would happen if a few broken bulbs were found on a college campus?
Ted Poe raised that very same issue on the House floor. A rant worth watching.
Not just the toilets. I installed a new kitchen faucet. It does something to cut back the strength of flow, as if the water pressure is low. It takes twice as long for the hot water to reach the spout.
And...a new study is saying those lovely CFI light bulbs have cancer causing elements. And...you should not sit NEAR these bulbs...it is unbelievable.
Maybe the point with the bulbs is to kill us off and reduce the population. Wouldn’t put it past them.
It is sickening. I managed to get a plumber to find me a discarded old toilet (porcelain and in perfect shape) but still allowed the ‘flow’ of old.
***They still have green toilets in KY and a few other states as well. Governments do not like them. They are safe and natural.***
But when you sit down the flies just swarm you! Watch out for the wasp nest and black widow spiders in the hole! Oh yes, they are COLD in the winter.
For paper use korans, government regulation documents, MSM newspapers..
****The size of the toilet water reservoir was determined by that great scientist and inventor of internet and gorebal warming, Al Gore.****
The smaller tanks are for water saving. I noticed last week that the city water department often goes around and opens the fire hydrants to flush them. They spew more water into the gutters than I use in a month. So the claim of “water saving” is a sham.
SF needs to get some fudge packers down in those blocked lines and train them to unpack the fudge.
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