Posted on 08/22/2014 4:16:37 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
A consumer group is predicting a rush for powerful vacuum cleaners as an EU ban on many best-performing products looms.
Which? said that from September 1, companies will be unable to manufacture or import any vacuums with motors above 1,600 watts under rules designed to boost energy efficiency and tackle climate change.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
It’s the same way with flush toilets. sure, you save money and water on every flush. Unless you have to flush it twice. Or three times. As you often have to.
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Unless you change your eating habits (are vegetarians less... productive?) and of course, use only one square of t.p., as Sheryl Crow, I believe, once advised. And don’t buy name brand t.p.; generic clogs less!
Oh, what the heck. Let’s just turn back the clock to the Dark Ages. That will save energy. We can be happy as pigs in a ... pig pen.
Just an observation, but while many around the country have been distracted by ‘race riots’, Ukrainian ‘independence fighters’ and ‘genocide’ in Iraq....
...there has been testimony on the Hill re ‘climate change’ as well as across the country in various locales (other countries as well).
I, for one, find that decidedly convenient.
The ‘news’ does not interest me. What ‘they’ decide is/isn’t news does interest me.
My hackles are up...
Unless you have to flush it twice. Or three times. As you often have to
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And people had to ask what ‘four flusher’ meant and the origin of the word.
Since the term ‘four flusher’ has been around at least since I have been, would figure the correct term today would be
“He is nothing but a ten flusher”
Install vacuum lines from the White House to the rest of the nation. Problem solved.
Conservation was about preserving wilderness lands. Environmentalism is about controlling people.
I guess it isn’t just Nature that abhors a vacuum.
bttt
Or the low-phosphate dishwasher detergents...saves unless you have to run the cycle twice.
Maybe in addition to free Obama phones, we can get free Obama balls - those little things that roll around your house collecting dust.
So, with a less powerful motor, you spend more time vacuuming, so the end result is no net reduction in energy usage or maybe even increased energy usage.
BTTT
That's the only response that matters.
Before we look down on the EU, let’s remember we live in a country where you have to flush the toilet 3 (or more) times to get anything to go down.
Why not outlaw rugs? It would make more sense than outlawing the most efficient ways to keep them clean and germ free. (I’m being facetious)
Yeah, high capacity bags for Europe which already sucks more than sufficiently.
Not in my house you don’t. But then my removal technology is 40 years old.
They’ll have to take my Dyson from the cold dead hands!
so now you'll have to go over the same spot three or four times instead of once... oh yeah, THAT will cave energy, NOT
You can take my vacuum cleaner ... when you pry it from my girlfriend’s cold dead hands!
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