Led by President Donald Trump, U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright today announced the Department of Energy will postpone the implementation of seven of the Biden-Harris administration’s restrictive mandates on home appliances.
Not agreeing that what they are doing is right, but some of the ways appliance manufacturers earn their badge is lame. Like dishwashers dropping their electric drying/heating element, to just sponge off the hot water heater’s energy usage, and claim they are thusly more green. Or how washing machines have some kind of energy reduction operation now but they can’t drain completely which requires an energy-using rotation cycle when not doing laundry to encourage evaporation.
Not agreeing that what they are doing is right, but some of the ways appliance manufacturers earn their badge is lame. Like dishwashers dropping their electric drying/heating element, to just sponge off the hot water heater’s energy usage, and claim they are thusly more green. Or how washing machines have some kind of energy reduction operation now but they can’t drain completely which requires an energy-using rotation cycle when not doing laundry to encourage evaporation.
You don’t push for the dismantling of the platform if you have an issue, you push for reform.