Trump ordered the EPA to reinstate previous water and efficiency standards for showers, toilets, dishwashers, and other appliances, along with earlier standards for lightbulbs.
Comments
Log in with your Bluesky account to leave a comment
Y'know if he could use Google even a little bit, he could have figured out how to disable a variety of flow restrictors himself (or, realistically, made the help do it for him). That would have saved us all a lot of grief.
Are manufacturers really going to go back to less efficient designs? No. The rest of the sane planet does want efficiency standards and manufacturers have way too much money in R&D to just roll back to designs from 1974. Even if they wanted to, it wont happen quickly and EOs are easily undone.
in tWump's defense it's difficult to flush secret documents and incriminating evidence down a terlet with low water flow
let alone one of his giant turds constructed from a bucket of the Colonel's best , a pound of coleslaw, giant fries, a couple big macs ,and an entire mara lago chocolate cake
I've never understood this. Can't you get higher pressure with less actual water flowing out? Think of putting your thumb over the end of the garden hose.
This is what he cares about. Do you wanna know why he cares about this petty dumb shit? Because it affects HIM. That’s why he doesn’t give a shit about the price of eggs, the price of gas, or his goddamn tariff war with our allies. Because it doesn’t affect him personally. 😡🤬🤬
Trump, you stupid fucking bingus, the more efficient stuff costs less to run! This is like saying Americans should all pay to get new cars with worse gas mileage. And the thing is, our compromises weren't that bad- In NY, we have canadians crossing en masse to buy American standards toilets.
I too am not pleased with the water pressure flow in my toilet. Granted the pipe to my toilet tank is frozen solid and zero water is able to pass through it and into my toilet tank right now but I’m not pleased about that.
How would he know? I don't believe for a second that he bathes regularly. I am sure he just tosses his diapers into the trash, so low flow toilets are unlikely to be an issue either.
How do we know this broken-brained fool is unwell…. his fixation on weird, trivial things such as “releasing water from a dam” and “water pressure & volume” when the world 🌎 literally spirals into economic, social, and conflict-ridden catastrophe
They want to pollute everything so they are in control of anything they leave clean. Republicans are a terminal disease and there's only one way to remove it.
In all seriousness though, he is an idiot and I doubt manufacturers are going to switch production now, esp considering state regulations etc. it’s just so annoying that we even have to contemplate it
He is so deranged. Literally completely out of his mind. You would think someone who cared about him would say or do something. It's like, okay grandpa, you'll be dead soon. Wasting so much money on this nonsense.
LED solar yard lights are one the best preps that always blends nicely with a well landscaped garden. 100 years ago they would have been seen as megick on par with lightening in a bottle.
#prepsky #prepping
my current tin hat theory is the faster they ruin the climate, the faster the ice melts, the easier it is to steal natural resources in greenland and the arctic, further enriching the capitalist machine
To be fair, as a biologist, there were issues with the total stop to incandescent lightbulbs. They are the cheapest, and most “efficient” (by way of being smaller and variable wattage) heatlamps.
Water efficiency reversal is stupid though. Melania wanted her full body shower back!
I'm actually happy about this because it is an admission of reality, that certain standards and regulations make sense and must be maintained for the common good. I give no points for it as it is a basic, basic level of function but I am ecstatic to see it nevertheless.
Looking forward to manufacturers ignoring any idiocy the felon forces the EPA to engage in. We are not going back to higher cost, lower efficiency energy and water use.
Wow! So happy to be able to take showers and flush toilets again. Me and all my friends are organizing flush parties in celebration. No one has ever seen anything like it. "Make America Gush Again".
But as Toto and Kholer have shown, they can pull off high pressure flushes using less water. We just can't please the users who try to fush classified documents.
He doesn't like the low flow toilet, cause he can't tear up documents and flush them! Living in the SE US, where we have a LOT of rain, we don't need low flow, but I know many states don't get the rain we get.
they’d have to retool their equipment for starters. it may happen but unless some other country is using those old standards it will probably take a while
When you are as greasy and bloated as he is, you need that firehouse water pressure to try to clean that stank off, which will never happen l. That orange make up has embedded itself in his pores.
Like… leaden pipes!? And an extra 44 things not filtered out!?
(I’m sure he doesn’t mean this but to *not* have planned absolesence would be nice)
Wait does that include the circumstances of acquiring the materials!?
Soooo...I live in an apartment that hasn't been updated since around 1996 (judging by cabinets, etc.). I have old school toilets. They are awful. The tank is gigantic, and the water moves so slow because they are just relying on gravity w/no pressurization. I hate them
hahaha plastic straws and toilets : “Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.” – Juvenal, a poet in Ancient Rome.” (it has been said that give them food and entertainment and the masses will not revolt)
So does that mean I will pay at those lower rates? Usually things get better and efficiency is increased but sure let’s go the other way. I can take a dirt shower and wash my dishes in sludge. What could go wrong.
Nothing prevents that, and I think that many existing manufacturers won't change their existing products, since if the high standards return, they'd be caught with unusable inventory.
However, they might make some low-standard new products with small inventory -- which I'm sure Trump would tout.
Thanks, that was sorta my thinking. Their manufacturing is already set up for the higher standards so why would they change out the whole production line AGAIN for his nonsense.
PS Having lived in a v old house w the old toilets, I can say they are terrible. Replaced them all & am so much happier
I'm assuming that during the Biden administration the standards were changed back to lower water rates and this is him making higher flow options legal again? I'm not fully sure if that's the case so any clarity you can provide is appreciated.
I have no idea about your question, but it’s really not US households use the most water anyway. It’s agriculture. Which we need. But they are generally as efficient as possible because efficiency = more water for their crops. This is just another made up problem to appear like he has fixed it.
Army bases are being renamed the confederate names they used to be.
I think accepting those traitors back in the first place was a stepping stone to current issues
If anyone out there knows a way to do it, I’m in. If I have success changing my personal withholding I’ll post about it.
It is insane to be sending money to a compromised treasury!
I am trying to find out. I think we all can change our own withholding, but may face fines for underpay even if we pay in full at year end. I’d love to put it all in our state treasuries, and have them hold it until fed treasury is secure
@nygov.bsky.social
@newyorkag.bsky.social
@aoc.bsky.social
There is no "legal" way to do this, but I contest they've proven there is no such thing as law. All social contracts have been broken. They are pardoning and installing criminals en masse. I think we should collectively change our withholding and flood the courts with tax cases.
There is no power we do not allow. It would be nice to move forward in a law abiding manor but it only aids the criminals running our country for us to comply as they strip our protections and rights. Time for civil disobedience and playing their game.
No one wants to buy 30 lightbulbs a year again. Also people like quick and quiet appliances. Curious if any factory is going to retool and go back to the 1980s 😂
Pretty sure our state law will hold up against that BS. I love our water saving shower heads, our LED lights, and hate our drought situation that is threatening our lives here in the West. So, Trump can stuff that incandescent bulb up where the light don't shine. 😡
Oh please. Americans want efficient energy saving items as well as cars, trucks, etc. It saves us money. Fudge all these idiots. Free market economy my ass. Don't refer to democrats as communists.
I was also thinking of dubbing him the orange menace, and starting a Bluesky account where people can memorialize loved ones who have died due to his policies.
"hold on...let me shut down my assembly line for a month to retool and revert to old specs for a product that is worse and that I won't be able to charge a premium for because I can't promote improved features for." - No company ever
Nah. Their current models still meet - and exceed - the previous efficiency standards. They don’t need to redesign to become more inefficient. Also, they may export these items to other countries, which is not reverting to the wwii era of life
Yet again, Trump is showing off his real estate guy skills while unelected co-president Musk raids federal computers, and destroys the pillars of our democracy.
Comments
let alone one of his giant turds constructed from a bucket of the Colonel's best , a pound of coleslaw, giant fries, a couple big macs ,and an entire mara lago chocolate cake
😁
#puppetpresident
i’ve got a pressure valve regulating incoming water pressure to my house. it’s had the same setting since 1991.
A pity that everyone in your Senate and Congress are jellyfish.
No spine.
softest people alive
Thank you for working so hard for us.
You're invaluable.
Love and respect
#prepsky #prepping
Yes, all of these industries will retool their production and save money while creating tremendous job opportunities.
Water efficiency reversal is stupid though. Melania wanted her full body shower back!
His first, hot take is the hill he'll die on.
I just wish he'd hurry up when the dying part.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/02/donald-trump-toilet-clogging-documents-details
Weird
(I’m sure he doesn’t mean this but to *not* have planned absolesence would be nice)
Wait does that include the circumstances of acquiring the materials!?
Also, this guy’s weird obsession w this is so f-ing insane, I cannot even…
However, they might make some low-standard new products with small inventory -- which I'm sure Trump would tout.
PS Having lived in a v old house w the old toilets, I can say they are terrible. Replaced them all & am so much happier
I think accepting those traitors back in the first place was a stepping stone to current issues
I'm done paying taxes to these monsters
It is insane to be sending money to a compromised treasury!
@nygov.bsky.social
@newyorkag.bsky.social
@aoc.bsky.social
Didn’t he have a thing about energy saving light bulbs making him even more orange than he is?
This is performance art for stupid people. They will claim that suddenly their showers have more pressure and praise Dear Leader for that.
Do people not realize that involves buying new appliances? With a 25% tariff on steel.
Its unlikely manufacturers are going to go back to older less efficient designs as well.
Elections today GA, KS, NE, NY, WA, OK
& coming up in states from today through spring
We just flipped a deep red seat in Idaho blue let’s show this admin we will still vote & win
We can flip the House by summer
Our vote is still a biggest defense