Posted on 05/12/2023 6:53:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
With some creative license, Martin Niemöller’s famous prose can be remade into something silly but fitting for our contemporary reality:
First they came for the incandescent light bulbs but I did not speak out, because I am a virtue-signaling leftist.
Then they came for the freon but I did not speak out, because I am a virtue-signaling leftist.
Then they came for the gas stoves but I did not speak out, because I am a virtue-signaling leftist.
Then they came for the dishwashers but I did not speak out, because I am a virtue-signaling leftist.
On and on ad nauseam; you get the point.
Last week, Jennifer Granholm announced that the Department of Energy would be focusing on “new energy efficiency actions” because of course, the greatest threat facing America is “carbon pollution” and the “climate crisis”. On a comedic sidenote, the announcement reminded me of a scene from cultural phenomenon, The Office; when manager Michael Scott becomes emotionally defensive of the under-fire business model of the fictitious Dunder Mifflin, he declares this:
You know what else is facing five Goliaths? America. Al-Qaeda. Global warming. Sex predators. Mercury poisoning. So do we just give up? — Michael Scott (@carellquotes) July 6, 2012
Remember a time when even Hollywood conceded that being a sex predator was a bad thing? Those were the days....
(To watch the scene, click here and start at 03:43.)
Of course, the list is meant to be ludicrous and exhibit Scott’s complete naivete…cough…Secretary Granholm…cough….
When hordes of young men patiently await the end of Title 42; the dissolution of national unity and political bonds erode at unprecedented rates; and the middle class edges towards extinction;
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
They have been doing this for years.
Get a dishwasher or washing machine from the 80s...
Cleaned your dishes or clothes far faster and better than anything allowed to be sold today.
My dishwasher runs for hours now.. Used to maybe, at most take an hour, IF THAT, to run a dishwasher... now its at least a 2-3 hour ordeal.
Same thing with washing machines. Washing clothes was maybe 30-45 minutes.. Now some of high efficiency low water ones take over 4 hours to wash a load. The AVERAGE these days is more than 2 hours to run a load through a washing machine 144 Minutes.
The governments idiotic energy requirements steal the one limited resource you have.... TIME from you. Time is literally the ONLY finite resource every person born has.. and the government steals more and more from you every day with these nonsensical things.
I’ll take a mid range 1980s dishwasher and washing machine ANY DAY over even the most expensive ones built today
Fortunately my 4 hands dishwasher so far has escaped government help.
First it as toilets, then light bulbs, soon gas cars. They want to put us back in the stone age.
I wonder when it is claimed that handwashing dishes uses more water. Do these testers just fill the sink to the very top even for a few dishes? Do they let the water run at full blast while washing and rinsing? Do they rinse the dirty dishes instead of wiping or scraping? We hand wash our dishes and trust me it uses less water and takes less time. Plus they get very clean on the first go-round.
They could also ban those “This page left blank” notices on every government doc I have ever received.
Nope.
Only cook on a spit over an open fire and use paper plates and fingers to ear.
All one has to do is string up clotheslines and put up drying racks to replace them.
Electric and gas dryers suck up a huge amount of energy that there is no need for.
Drying clothes inside in the winter reduces the need for a humidifier, more electricity saved.
Should I win the lottery, I'll build an indoor/outdoor shooting range with the ropes for running the targets out to double as clotheslines and hire an illegal alien woman who has never seen a dryer to hang up our (and her) clothes.
Low-flow Toilets
Incandescent Lightbulbs
Leaf Blowers, Lawn Mowers and Trimmers
Natural gas Ranges and Ovens
Unattainable CAFE standards for ICE vehicles
and now...Dishwashers that won’t wash dishes.
I can foresee a time when American men and women
line the banks of rivers, pounding their dirty clothes
on rocks under the watchful eyes of the Thought Police.
One report said the want to tell you what foods you can and can’t cook in the name of climate control.
No limit to stupidity when you have the power.
If you have the skills to design and build your own dishwasher, then you don’t have to care much about these stupid regulations.
We have a dishwasher but we never use it, frankly it doesn’t do a very good job, so we just do them by hand.
“It wasn’t geting enough power...so, I rewired it!” - Tim Allen
Which would pollute even more.
Books are bad, too. Stop reading or else the Erf!
I've heard "I vote for the person, not the party" so many times in the past. Unsurprisingly, I don't hear it anymore. As for me, I knew Democrat politicians were bad people even as an 18 year old voter in 1972. To date I have never voted for anyone with a "D" after their name. And I certainly won't in the future, until after I'm gone. That's when I won't be able to stop Democrats from unlawfully casting a ballot in my name.
Coming next....Your Federale/Department of Energy regulated new toaster will be so low wattage, that it will only be able to warm up your bread slices.
I bought a Speed Queen TC500 a few months ago. Best washing machine I’ve ever owned. ONLY GET the 500...
A large load of clothes takes 25 minutes to wash, clothes come out clean with plenty of wash and rinse water to wash away dirt and detergent. It comes with a 5 year parts and labor guarantee and has a lid you can open to add an extra piece of clothing.
They’re hard to fine but the Consumer Reports digital site has links to where they can be bought. Consumer Reports show highest customer satisfaction of any of the washers they review. But CR is NOT happy with the water they use....They cost more... but it’s totally worth the extra money.
e than most washers but you’ll have this washer 20 to 25 years from now.
Water costs me 1.6 cents a gallon, I live in a area where have water everywhere, our average rainfall per years is more than 2/3rd of the amount of rain every year that the minimal requirement to be a Temperate Rainforest gets and every decade since the 80s the rainfall amount per year on average has been increasing.
In fact in 2018, we were less than 3 inches shy of having as much rainfall as a temperate rain forest.
I will HAPPILY pay to use more water to get clean damn closed quickly over saving a few nickels and taking two hours to get something clean. But, I don’t get that choice, because a bunch of idiots in DC, want to treat the whole country like it’s the south west.
If I lived in an arid climate where water was scarce, then water consumption is a different calculation, but where I live, I’ll take actually having clean clothes and dishes in a short time over less clean things over multiple times longer to save a nickel or less.
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