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Trump has long targeted efficiency standards for appliances, blaming the showerhead standards in particular for ruining his “perfect” hair. In April, the president signed an executive order lifting restrictions on how much water can be used by showerheads, saying his administration would “make America’s showers great again.”

Doing the dumbest thing for the dumbest person for the dumbest reasons.

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fedia.io

Why not keep it going, so that if you want to, you can purchase the least efficient products?

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ahornsirupreply
feddit.org

Because even his idiotic voters wouldn't intentionally drive up their power bill. Well, some might, but most wouldn't. But if it's harder for consumers to make that informed choice his friends in industry can flood the American market with inefficient crap and his voters will probably blame Biden or immigrants or Jewish space lasers for their increased power bill.

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silence7reply
slrpnk.net

Only when they can performatively blow smoke in people's faces. You can't do that with a hot water heater.

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crudely hooks up a diesel engine to replace water heater that rolls coal into their house and neighbors yard

Take that, you commie!!

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Also, I remember seeing these guys recording themselves blowing smoke on bikers and on Priuses or whatever.

I mean, nothing screams little dick energy like rolling coal....I'm thinking a lot of these douches have micropenises.

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These are the same assholes that bray about having a "tire fire" during Earth Day or the people that say they turn on every light in their house during Earth Hour.

Whether they do this shit or not? Who knows. But they love the idea of irritating "liberals" by such actions.

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lemm.ee

It's incredible how someone is so committed to doing the wrong thing in every situation. Next he'll outlaw sunlight and children's laughter.

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lemmy.wtf

He's against solar energy and shool lunches, so yeah ...

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I saw this weird behavior called “vice signaling” a few years back and I’ve used the term ever since. It’s the perfect name for their anti-woke anti-anti-fascist demonstrations because “virtue signaling” is what they call acts of basic decency.

For example, Reagan spent additional government funds just to remove the solar panels from the roof of the White House because they were wasteful since solar “didn’t work.” Clearly, the more wasteful choice of removing them was justified. Smh

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I was in the process of replacing a very old, inefficient heat pump system in January.

The DOE efficiency rebate page and all information about it was gone from the website days after Trump took office and replaced with positively Orwellian propaganda: "Restoring Energy Dominance. Trump's Day One Actions will return the Department to Regular Order."

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What about the energy crisis Don?

But that was never the real point was it. Solar and wind energy keep a few dollars out of the billionaire pockets, so we gotta cancel that.

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Idiots will wonder why their electricity and water bill went way up.

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lemmy.world

Just thinking, you think these companies would stop making those versions? Or is this race to the bottom?

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Or is this race to the bottom?

Always has been. They've just been given jetpacks now.

But the serious answer is "whatever's cheapest". If their manufacturing is already setup for the current efficiency standards, then they probably won't change anything. Not sure how new models may be affected, but I guess it depends on the supply chain.

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