We are paying the Administrative State in DC $575 million a day to justify their existence by make life more expensive for the rest of us.
TRUMP didn’t play their game —Bring back the patronage system and fire these parasites
DolyG
11 months ago
“Will dishwashers in the US even work? That seemingly silly question is anything but silly.”
It is, objectively, a silly question. Domestic dishwashers are entirely unnecessary. Restaurants may need them, but they mostly use bigger ones.
When is it going to get into the thick heads of the average middle-class people that their lifestyle is going obsolete? They keep bleating like the middle classes of the early 20th century when they couldn’t imagine life without piano lessons for their kids. You know what? The kids didn’t need piano lessons.
Snowleopard
11 months ago
The Energy Dept. is in effect instituting laws called regulations by executive fiat.. That is Unconstitutional, as only Congress should be passing laws, and these “regulations” would be unlikely to withstand a court challenge sustained to SCOTUS review. None of these manufacturing companies are willing to challenging this, partly because it’s expensive, but mostly because they are owned by the same folks who “own” the governments.
Envir
11 months ago
Yes, best to push back against green initiatives. We’ve got ours who gives a damn if the people that follow us have horrible air to breathe and water sources are polluted. Who cares if millions suffer asthma as a result. What difference does it make if we alter the climate, I won’t be around anyhow (I’m old). Screw the future I say, it ain’t what it used to be. If it costs 1 penny to help the environment it just isn’t worth it. Go big oil!
omera
11 months ago
It used to be denial of climate change all together, now the methods or costs are the questions. I am not sure why on earth anyone expects a clean, easy, painless change of course out of the mess we have been creating through the industrial age? I don’t mind pointing the obstacles on the way to change but please spare me gripes about how expensive, impossible it is. EVs are not new, they lost the battle to cheap manufacturing and gas for ICE cars in early 1900s. Several attempts to revive it was killed fast (guess by which sector of energy?). I own a 2015 Leaf: cost me $16,500 to own. A perfect city car within 80 mile range as well as battery pack for power outages. The expensive EV car manufacturers are trying to push 300 mile “holly grail” range with 70+KWh batteries. Tesla is finally waking up -not because they care but they cannot sell- and others will follow, it won’t continue like this and cutting the prices. This is just a beginning. When it is something else everyone is behind “the US ingenuity”, but where are you guys now? I hear people talking about solar, wind etc won’t be enough or will break the grid. The US grid is 40/50+ years old in most areas and already faltering under population growth. For the ones complaining about energy efficient appliances, built your own appliance company, get special interest to lobby in Washington to reverse regulations, and make money. Isn’t this the US way? It has not changed as far as I know.
Lunatic_Fringe
11 months ago
The green initiatives have always been impossible when the basic premise is that wind and solar will supply the grid. Electric cars are nothing more than expensive toys that will require more electrical capacity to charge than is possible also. This has been quite apparent form the beginning as the math is quite rudimentary… it’s always been a scam.
I mostly agree. It IS impossible to sustain a reliable grid based on intermittent wind and solar as proven by Germany. It is not impossible to build the grid capacity to charge universal EVs, rather it is that there is no current incentive to do it, as apparently the plan is to ration EV use by electricity price. (“Under my plan…electricity prices will necessarily skyrocket” – Barack Obama 2008) Furthermore, when calculating the emissions and environmental impact of of EVs, how much of the effects of mining the rare earths used in the batteries is considered? How about the battery disposal costs?
KidHorn
11 months ago
Environmentalists will only be happy when humans go extinct.
GruesomeHarvest
11 months ago
Now if they can only get out of NATO and it’s stupid wars to satisfy neocon bloodlust.
prumbly
11 months ago
I own a dishwasher manufactured to EU standards. It’s hopeless. Takes 3-4 hours. The dishes aren’t remotely dry at the end of this marathon, and any dishes with even slightly difficult dirt (e.g. egg) will not be clean and will need to be re-washed.
I stayed in a cabin a while back that had a working 1960s-era dishwasher in it. It was excellent! The cycle took about 30-40 minutes and the dishes were clean and dry at the end. Only downside was that it was a bit noisy.
Its like I have said many times before here. Governments can set all manner of policies and mandates; but when it comes to keeping the lights on, they will do whatever is necessary, including altering their previous policies and mandates. Which is why its a waste of time to get so indignant whenever governments come out with their often idealistic policies in the first place.
A better plan is to figure out how to profit from these policies.
For me, that means being heavily invested in the much maligned and hated oil and gas industry. The industry was being shunned for the last decade by governments, major lenders and investors. Which led to a forced self discipline of reduced capex, higher free cash flow, and paying down of debt. Which is leading to lower future production in the face of rising demand. And higher prices in the long term.
I expect fabulous long term returns from this sector in this decade.
Europe, Australia, the UK have all been suffering brownouts and blackouts because of environmental regulations and the people just bent over and took it. When you reach a certain level of fanaticism, people will accept almost anything.
“I expect fabulous long term returns from this sector in this decade.”
Windfall profit taxes can fix that issue.
Matt3
11 months ago
Inflation is the policy that the government is pursuing. Government policy is antigrowth and pro inflation – stagflation is the result. The Fed raising rates isn’t going to stop this.
hamsaplo
11 months ago
The question is not “will they work” but “do they work?” I suspect the difference between 5 gallons and 3.2 gallons is insignificant n any real functional sense. In any case it’s a joke restricting water use in places with plenty of rainfall. I can see places in the SW needing to review their practices but then we will all be down by the Rio Grande rubbing our clothes on rocks.
I also sense that the reason dishwashers are even remotely working is because of technical advances in the dishwashing gels that we use now in them. I’ll do a patent search on the topic one day to confirm that. Unlike clothes washing where I get to walk around in stinky clothes washed in high efficiency machines and streaked with the undissolved portions of the detergent packets. Eeeeeeeew!
denker
11 months ago
What Mish neglected to mention or didn’t know is that in Bremen the Afd was excluded from the election because the party split into 2 factions and put up 2 lists so the vote for the BiW was probably mostly Afd voters
TexasTim65
11 months ago
You can’t legislate progress. It will get there, if it even can get there when it does.
People will just run everything twice or three times or how ever long it takes. It’s like the reduced flow shower heads that were legislated. All that happened is that I take a longer shower. Or the low flow toilets that Trump complained take 2 flushes (he’s right).
FromBrussels2
11 months ago
The very EU institute is destroying the EU with insane policies ! Question is, how to get rid of this unelected parasitic, legally corrupt mfg bunch, that btw, just gave itself a 10% salary raise as if they deserve getting paid for messing up our lives big time. The hitherto spoilt plebs may not have noticed yet that we are definitely heading for the abyss in all fn aspects yet that s the way we re going. However, if criminal NATO/US /UK keep on pushing things the way they re doing vs Russia , the odds are that we will still be ‘saved’ from the unfathomable financial/ economic cavity ! There s always some hope left, in other words ….
Directed Energy
11 months ago
Biden has zero understanding of the laws of thermodynamics. There is a baseline level of energy needed to complete tasks, and sometimes the more efficient method uses a bit more energy in the process to end the process sooner.
He drives (not much anymore) a gas guzzling classic vette his Daddy gave him. You think he cares about energy…meh. He doesn’t give a damn about any of this stuff. NONE OF IT and especially not the average American but it’s not just him. It’s all of them on that level. Even on my level I don’t care. I’ll turn on my gas pool heater to get it to a cozy 86 degrees if it’s 78 and slow cook ribs on the gas grill all day. The only real problem with energy is most people can’t afford to waste it. If they could though most would. I don’t like the Davos folks but I do salute them for creating this fake crisis of making people feel ashamed for doing what they themselves do every hour. The finally tapped into to the REAL POWER of controlling people.
The far bigger thing is we put heavy tariffs on Chinese made EVs and solar panels. We also only give tax credits to EVs made in the US. If reducing greenhouse gasses were really an existential crisis, you would do everything possible to eliminate greenhouse gas production.
There will be a lot of people washing dishes by hand, and a lot of dishwasher related jobs lost.
RonJ
11 months ago
“Biden’s Dirty Dish Deal”
Just another example of government tyranny. I hand wash my dishes in a plastic tub in the kitchen sink. Don’t know how many gallons of water i use, but i do use zero electricity.
You just like sipping the dishwater to combat the covid antibodies all the mudbloods exhale around you. No harm in that. The government will indulge you. No stormtroopers will kick in your door after dinner.
Natural immunity has kept me Covid free for 10 months already, unlike Walenski, who got it again, a month after her bivalent booster. What a scam that Covid shot was.
Government tyranny doesn’t require storm troopers kicking down one’s door. At one time, people weren’t allowed in Los Angeles restaurants if they didn’t have a Covid vax card. Papers please.
Its like I have said many times before here. Governments can set all manner of policies and mandates; but when it comes to keeping the lights on, they will do whatever is necessary, including altering their previous policies and mandates. Which is why its a waste of time to get so indignant whenever governments come out with their often idealistic policies in the first place.