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Vacuum Ban To Outlaw Most Powerful Cleaners
Sky News.com ^ | August 21, 2014 | Sky News

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 ...


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KEYWORDS: hotair; junkscience; nannystate
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To: Celtic Conservative

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.


21 posted on 08/22/2014 4:38:27 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (Thank you, Freepers. You all know who you are. You mean a lot to me.)
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To: Timber Rattler

22 posted on 08/22/2014 4:40:17 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Timber Rattler

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...


23 posted on 08/22/2014 4:40:50 AM PDT by logi_cal869
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To: Celtic Conservative

Unless you have to flush it twice. Or three times. As you often have to
= = = = = = = = = = = = =
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”


24 posted on 08/22/2014 4:42:58 AM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)a GUN is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one-probably never need one again.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Install vacuum lines from the White House to the rest of the nation. Problem solved.


25 posted on 08/22/2014 4:49:32 AM PDT by WorkingClassFilth
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To: I want the USA back

Conservation was about preserving wilderness lands. Environmentalism is about controlling people.


26 posted on 08/22/2014 4:50:12 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: Timber Rattler

I guess it isn’t just Nature that abhors a vacuum.


27 posted on 08/22/2014 4:50:13 AM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
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To: samtheman

bttt


28 posted on 08/22/2014 4:51:41 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: proud American in Canada

Or the low-phosphate dishwasher detergents...saves unless you have to run the cycle twice.


29 posted on 08/22/2014 4:53:40 AM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: Timber Rattler

Maybe in addition to free Obama phones, we can get free Obama balls - those little things that roll around your house collecting dust.


30 posted on 08/22/2014 5:02:23 AM PDT by randita ("Is a nation without borders a nation?"...Noonan)
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To: Fresh Wind

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


31 posted on 08/22/2014 5:03:56 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
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To: TADSLOS
Well, that sucks.

That's the only response that matters.

32 posted on 08/22/2014 5:04:03 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Fresh Wind

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.


33 posted on 08/22/2014 5:04:55 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: Fresh Wind

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)


34 posted on 08/22/2014 5:05:12 AM PDT by grania
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To: F15Eagle
One must consider the capacity of the bag ... they might have high-capacity bags.,

Yeah, high capacity bags for Europe which already sucks more than sufficiently.

35 posted on 08/22/2014 5:05:31 AM PDT by Rapscallion (Obama is actually a narco-terrorist. Consider that charge carefully.)
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To: Wolfie

Not in my house you don’t. But then my removal technology is 40 years old.


36 posted on 08/22/2014 5:06:45 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: Timber Rattler

They’ll have to take my Dyson from the cold dead hands!


37 posted on 08/22/2014 5:08:42 AM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is PUBLIC ENEMY #1)
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To: Timber Rattler
My Electrolux 1401 Super J Canister manufactured in 1975 is as powerful today as it was then when it could suck chrome off a trailer hitch and at "only" 1200 watts


38 posted on 08/22/2014 5:09:25 AM PDT by Brother Cracker ( Mossberg 500 helps me deal with being old and cranky)
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To: Timber Rattler
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
39 posted on 08/22/2014 5:10:50 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Timber Rattler

You can take my vacuum cleaner ... when you pry it from my girlfriend’s cold dead hands!


40 posted on 08/22/2014 5:16:54 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Is there such a thing as a vegan zombie?)
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