Now Obama Wants to Ban Dishwashers
“They found some stuff that was pretty disgusting”
July 22, 2015
Daniel Greenfield
Environmental standards had already made washing dishes hard enough.
It so happens that in the last six months, a lot of people have suddenly discovered their dishwashers don’t work as well as they used to. The problem, though, isn’t the dishwashers. It’s the soap. Last July, acceding to pressure from environmentalists, America’s dishwasher detergent manufacturers decided to change their formulas. And the new detergents stink.
A couple of months ago, Sandra Young from Vernon, Fla., started to notice that something was seriously amiss with her dishes.
"The pots and pans were gray, the aluminum was starting to turn black, the glasses had fingerprints and lip prints still on them, and they were starting to get this powdery look to them," Vernon says. "I'm like, oh, my goodness, my dishwasher must be dying; I better get a new dishwasher."
Young's not alone. Many people across the country are tearing out their hair over stained flatware, filmy glasses and ruined dishes.
Sandra Young was so mad that she called Procter & Gamble, which makes Cascade, to complain. But when she did, a company representative told her to be more careful about which pans she puts into her dishwasher.
"He said, 'Well, if you're really having that hard of a problem, maybe you should wash your dishes by hand.' Which I thought was kind of strange for an automatic dishwashing company."
Now if Obama has his way, the dishwasher will become completely useless.
The Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers is accusing the Department of Energy (DOE) of a politically motivated drive to increase dishwasher efficiency standards, which are so bad that they would cause consumers to re-wash dishes, erasing any efficiency gains.
Some of the group’s members, which include companies like GE Appliances & Lighting and Whirlpool Corp., tweaked their models to comply with the DOE’s December proposal to ratchet up standards.
They then ran standard tests with food stuck to dishes.
“They found some stuff that was pretty disgusting,” McAver said.
McAver suspects the DOE is pushing the rules to try and meet President Obama’s greenhouse gas emissions goals under the Climate Action Plan, his second-term climate change initiative.
Obama may not realize that unlike him, most Americans don't have servants to wash their dishes for them. They actually have to work, instead of playing golf all day while being catered to be a staff larger than the one that serves the Queen of England.
A US government shutdown would mean President Barack Obama had fewer people to cook meals, do the laundry, clean the floors or change the light bulbs, according to a White House contingency plan.
About three-quarters of president's 1,701-person staff would be sent home.
Of the 90 people who maintain the president's family living quarters, only 15 would remain to provide "minimum maintenance and support
Hard for a guy like that to understand why working families need to be able to quickly wash their dishes. Talk about Green Jobs.
