Posted on 07/16/2021 1:25:51 PM PDT by Magnatron
The Department of Energy is moving to reverse a Trump-era rule that rolled back water efficiency standards for showerheads, an administration official confirmed to CNN on Friday. The Trump-era showerhead rule took aim at the 2.5-gallon-per-minute maximum flow rate set by Congress in the 1990s. During the Obama administration, each showerhead in a fixture counted toward that limit collectively -- but the Energy Department under then-President Donald Trump moved to let each showerhead reach the 2.5-gallon-per-minute individually. The new proposal from President Joe Biden's administration would revert to the showerhead standards set by the Obama administration. The proposed action is set to be published in the Federal Register, after which it will undergo a 60-day public comment period.
This proposed reversal was first reported by The Associated Press.
A Biden administration official told CNN these water efficiency standards saved Americans money and conserved water and energy.
Through 2020, the official said these standards had saved consumers $111.1 billion dollars in energy and water bills, 4.8 quads of energy and 4.3 trillion gallons of water. Those water savings equated to 107.5 billion baths of water with a 40-gallon average bath, the official said, which is equivalent to 63% of the water in Lake Champlain.
The Trump-era rollbacks, which were finalized in December 2020, were heavily criticized at the time by environmental advocates and consumer and appliance standards groups as wasteful and unnecessary.
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I installed a new Moen showerhead recently. I pulled out the flow restrictor. Everyone should.
They just can’t leave ANYTHING alone
biden reinstates the ‘We dems hate the fact that people have stuff that works and that they like” rule
Will local police department’s be having shower head buy back programs?
Flow restrictors are nothing but a nuisance. I ALWAYS pull them out.
[[[[They just can’t leave ANYTHING alone]]]]
The left are absolute control freaks.
I had a shower head that made the water feel like being hit by pins and needles , I wish I knew what I did with it
I’ve got more water where I live that I could share with the world.
Leftists love to make good people suffer because they suffer so much.
They are evil, hateful, CONTROLLING people
Ever know a controlling person? The Left is controlling
“I pulled out the flow restrictor.”
There’s a Biden Flow Restrictor Strike Force being formed as we speak.
All of ours came out when we put in Deltas thru-out.
Well, screw the Biden water Nazis. I’ve figured out how to remove the flow restrictors from showerheads. So do your worst.
Biden is going to send around inspectors door to door.
They’ll check to see if you’ve pulled your shower restrictors when they come to ask if you’ve been vaccinated.
As advised above, remove the flow restrictor and, if necessary, also enlarge (drill out) the discharge hole in the ball joint, if your shower head contains one.
When the first rule came out about shower heads, I installed a “T” joint and two shower heads with the flow restrictors removed. I could take a shower in about 90 seconds with all that water! Gawd it was glorious.
Biden is going to send around inspectors door to door.
Those door to door vaccinators are really Voter Registration Democrats
The epitome of Serbo-Croatian hydraulic techmology - the Commando 450.
>>Those door to door vaccinators are really Voter Registration Democrats
Absolutely. Knock and Drag 2.0
Michigan Dems Prepare For ‘Knock And Drag’ Phase
November 4, 20084:23 PM ET
https://www.npr.org/sections/vox-politics/2008/11/michigan_dems_prepare_for_knoc.html
A little less than an hour before the polls close tonight, the Obama campaign will send its final shift of door-knockers out to the streets. In Michigan, the final mission of the day is called “knock and drag”: if volunteers find a Democrat who hasn’t voted, the volunteer is not to leave the doorstep until that person is off to the polling site.
Thugs going door to door intimidating voters.
My toilet us a two flush minimum.
They aren’t happy unless everybody is unhappy.
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