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SCARY (Photo: Diane Bondareff, AP)
Tremble, ye mighty, and despair in the face of our new overlords: efficient dishwashers. The Biden administration is carrying out what is, arguably, former president Trump’s worst fear, and preparing to mandate once again that dishwashers and washers and dryers do their jobs more efficiently. (Typical politician, that Joe Biden, in the pocket of Big Efficient Appliances.)
On Wednesday, the Department of Energy proposed a rule that would ensure that new dishwashers, clothes washers, and dryers follow energy and water efficiency standards set during the Obama administration. The new rule is actually a move to reverse a Trump-era rule that tried to make it easier for those products to be less efficient a rollback of a rollback, if you will.