OUCH: Sen. Kennedy DISMANTLES Biden's Controversial New Dishwasher Regulation Rule

suddenly dishwashers seem to be inner Enemy Number One the department of energy recently announced that it would be proposing a new rule Mr President to regulate the amount of water and the amount of energy used by dishwashing machines Nationwide now under the proposed rule I want to describe it fairly under the proposed rule dishwashers will only be able to use 3.2 gallons of water per cycle

right now the rule allows the dishwashers don't use as much but the rule allows a dishwasher to use five gallons of water per cycle no person with the brain above a single cell organism has asked for this change Mr President no reasonable circumstance demands it instead the department of energy and President Biden's Administration has hearkened to the extreme climate activists who frankly we have learned from

quote energy star standards seam of approval to any dishwasher that'll use 3.5 gallons or less so even though washing a dishwasher can use up to five to get the seal of approval which most dishwashers have and most manufacturers want you have to use 3.5 or less now despite being EPA approved the department of Energy's new rule will force manufacturers to abandon these efficient designs that we're

already using to placate people who arbitrarily want not 3.5 but 3.2 gallons of water per cycle and you may be thinking Mr President okay well we'll see we will save three gallons per cycle we will not uh President Obama I I want to I I want to Sidetrack a moment this but this is relevant during President Obama's administration his Regulators imposed a similar restriction the results

were disastrous his rule was adopted in 2012 some may recall increased the price of dishwashers by a hundred dollars that's a hundred dollars in 2012 dollars it's more today in exchange for those higher prices the regulation that President Obama promulgated forced Americans to buy machines that don't wash their dishes nearly as well as the older machines and that will prove the case with this new rule

that that is being promulgated by the department of energy now if you have one of these dishwashers not the ones yet that yet to be approved by the department of energy but but the ones mandated under President Obama you know how it goes you have to pre-wash the dishes I mean it defeats the whole purpose of a dishwasher if you don't pre-wash the dishes half the

gravy is still going to be on the plate after the first run and so that leaves families with a choice you can run the machine the dishwasher twice which uses twice as much water in order to to get your dishes clean or you have to hand wash your dishes which is going to use about 17 gallons of water both of these options and once again this

is not the new rule yet we're we're under President Obama's restricted but less restrictive both of these options waste more water than the older washers now the department of energy itself admits that 20 percent of families who own a dishwasher never use it why is that it's not because dishwashing is fun it's because they don't want to taste last night's jambalaya in their morning Cheerios when

these weaker machines don't do their job so now instead of having dishwashers use enough water the first time to actually clean dishes we're going to have even more families opting to use an average of 17 gallons of water per night to wash by by hand let me restate this under President Obama Obama's regulation which will be made even worse by the proposed regulation by President Biden

if you wash your dishes the first time they don't get clean and those of you who use a dishwasher know what I'm talking about you do save water the first round but your dishes aren't clean so you're forced to use the the dishwasher a second time which uses even more water or you're forced to wash your dishes by hand which uses three times more water now

you don't need to be Euclid to see that this does not add up to energy to water savings and it makes even less sense when you consider the savings and electricity the department of Energy's new rule would it says it'll it'll cut the amount of energy the dishwashers can use by 27 percent shoot well all before that um it'll cut the amount of electricity this energy

from 307 kilowatt hours annually to 223 kilowatt hours that's for a standard dishwasher the department of the energy under President Biden says that this will help reduce quote carbon pollution and it's going to save the American people money in in reality it won't by decreasing the amount of allowed energy use by 27 percent under this new proposed rule the new rule will save 84 kilowatt hours

annually that's fewer kilowatt hours than it takes to run an LED light bulb for a year we're not talking about serious Energy savings how much will it save the American people using the very generous estimates of the Department of energy it's going to save Americans about 17 bucks annually every year that's not even enough for a tank of gas under President Biden's inflation however once a

day I'll draw a parallel to the so-called water savings once again the Lesser performance capacity in these energy efficient machines is going to result in more Americans choosing to run the machine twice or to hand wash the dishes just to get the plates clean