Obama Pushing For New Appliance Efficiency Standards
Because it’s the President’s job to regulate how your dishwasher operates.
President Obama today announced that he is pressuring the Department of Energy (DoE) to speed up some long-delayed efficiency standards for appliances. His move is being applauded by environmentalists—no surprise there. And DoE itself will almost certainly proclaim that the new standards will give us better appliances in the future; they might cost more, but they’ll supposedly save us money in the long run.
What’s infuriating is that we don’t really need these efficiency standards. If an efficient appliance is a good idea that will do what citizens want it to do by saving them money on energy costs, then there is no need for the government to mandate it.
These policies are a pure manifestation of government meddling for meddling’s sake. Some people just aren’t happy unless they’re telling their fellow citizens how to live every single aspect of their lives.
