BREAKING NEWS: John Kennedy Goes Off On New Biden Rule Targeting Dishwashers

Mr President um the American people as we all know are facing many serious one might describe them as Grave issues some of which fall under the purview of our United States Department of energy average gas prices remain well above three dollars a gallon that's a hardship on a lot of Americans that's up 50 percent since President Biden took office average electricity prices that's something we have to deal with every day they have increased 14.5 percent since 2022. our aging power grid remains at risk for devastating cyber security attacks and while China's nuclear stockpile is growing ours is getting older and it's getting smaller these are weighty problems Mr President you know that as well if not better than I do these problems cost the American people a lot of money and they place our national security at risk and they're all impacted by the United States Department of energy and the policy that it creates but instead of trying to get control over our gas prices or the National Security issues that I just mentioned President Biden's Administration and his energy Department frankly seems more concerned about Americans basic kitchen appliances and 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 though dishwashers don't use as much but the rule allows a dishwasher to use five gallons of water per cycle no person with a brain above a single celled 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 bitter experience will find any reason to micromanage the lives of Americans by force if necessary let me give you a case in point most American dishwashers already use less than five gallons of water that is allowed under current regulations in fact most American dishwashers use not five which is allowed but 3.5 gallons of water per cycle why because the EPA the Environmental Protection Agency gave its quote energy star standard 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 increase 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 uh 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 restrictive 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 you don't need to be Euclid to see that this does not add up to enter 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 that dishwashers can use by 27 percent shoot well all before that um it will 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 again 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 it's important to consider the context too Mr President I want musianians let me talk about my state I know my State best we are just as you know Mr President you're a wonderful State best louisianans are paying an extra 740 a month not a year a month because of President binds inflation that's almost nine thousand dollars a year and most of my people are not wealthy people let me just let me just read you these are not my numbers these are the numbers compiled by President Biden's own government of electricity is up 20 percent gas 48 eggs I know they've come down a little bit thank God they're still up 67 percent potato chips 28 bread 27 coffee 30 rice 28 flowers up 24 milks up 20 percent ice cream's up 21 chickens up 21 bacon I don't want to live in a world without bacon it's up 10 percent I could keep going I mean American people and my people are burning through their savings and they're getting priced out of the housing market but President Biden's Administration seems to be obsessed with robbing our people of access to Affordable Appliances that actually get the job done and I can't think of any better evidence of the fact that in too many instances this Administration has a Fatal Attraction to nutty ideas I'm not against regulation I mean I I I I think the world's complicated in some cases dangerous and if we can make it more efficient and safer for our people we ought to do it but you have to weigh the cost and the benefit you have to weigh the cost and the benefit this is what we know after doing that under this proposed new rule the new Rule's not going to save water it's not going to save a significant amount of energy it's not going to save the American people money in fact it's going to cost them money this new policy is not going to be a win for America but I'll tell you it will be a win for the People's Republic of China China the world's largest producer of CO2 admissions we are reducing our CO2 emissions China is increasing its CO2 emissions China stands to benefit from this rule because it produces about 70 percent of the world's dishwashers and China is probably going to produce 70 percent of the new dishwashers mandated by the department of energy more business for China the dishwasher manufacturers in China are delighted now these manufacturers in China they're factories they don't run on solar panels they don't want to run off of wind energy they're not powered by by fairy dust or unicorn urine nor do the ships that have to bring the dishwashers from China to the American Summer I'll run off fossil fuels some of these manufacturers in China that our department of energy is giving business to run off coal and look I care about our planet and I know you do too Mr President I want clean air I want Bright Water we all do but this new proposed rule by the department of energy is not going to help anything or anybody it's only going to make the American people have to spend more money on less efficient machines the cost dramatically outweigh the benefit it's going to make most of them either stop using their dishwasher or use it twice using twice as much water or energy or are frustrate them until the point that they're going to say hey I'll just wash the dishes by hand using three times the amount of water and it's not just dishwashers if it would just dishwashers I I would chalk this up to well just we've got a we we've gotta we've got some Regulators that we need to talk to and reign in there are other things on this looning list in the past few months the private Administration has proposed new regulations for electric motors for beverage vending machines for microwaves for ovens for refrigerators for furnaces for air conditioners for light bulbs get ready in fact the Bible Administration added more than 110 regulations since being in office on appliances and Equipment during two years most of these policies if you weigh the costs and the benefits make no sense not in terms of CO2 emissions not in terms of Energy savings not in terms of water savings and certainly not in terms of the pocketbook of the American people they are the Sops to the woke wing of the Democratic Party not all Democrats I'm not going to paint with a broad brush here not all of them but there are some members of the Democratic Party think they think that we will all be better off if we had a rule for everything and they think that the American people are not capable of running their own lives these new regulations will do little if anything to help the planet but they do harm regular Americans the Americans who get up every day go to work obey the law pay their taxes try to do the right thing by their children and try to save them little money for retirement that's who these new regulations are going to hurt they just all these folks want is for the dishwashers to work they want to spend less time on dishes because they want to spend time with their families they don't want to have to hand wash the dishes every night that's what they bought a dishwasher for now surely The Regulators who are proposing this know that and that's why they're going to downplay they already are the dishwasher regulations it's why they're going to act confused when Americans wonder if the federal government is coming to hook unhook their gas stoves next we've heard officials from the Biden Administration say if you like your gas stove you can keep your gas stove not true I'm sorry it's just not true this Administration is willing to regulate and try to control every aspect of American Life there are people in this Administration that believe that why to avoid empty criticism from mooning left the mooning left which often ignores science and always insists on more control don't listen to what politicians do or say don't never listen to what a politician says you can listen to them but you got to compare it to what they do what you do is what you believe everything else is just cottage cheese President Biden and his administration are saddling Americans with harmful maybe even hateful regulations because they care more about what the activists say on Tick Tock than they do about the quiet suffering of everyday families in America and all over this country they have a blind spot for the lives and concerns of ordinary Americans and it's why this Administration is more worried about dishwashers and gas stoves than the fact that the average Louisiana family is paying 740 dollars more a month not a year because of inflation it's why they'll kill American jobs while continuing to buy solar panels and new dishwashers from the polluters in China it's why they'll give rich people tax credits to buy electric cars how many poor people do you know driving electric cars it's why they'll give rich people tax credits to buy electric cars while people in rural areas in Rural America struggle to pay for a full tank of gas and can't even dream of buying a used car because the used cars cost 30 percent more since President Biden took office all this virtually signaling to some it may be amusing but it's not free there's no free lunch and you don't get one now it costs money money that Americans don't have and it causes them pain that they don't deserve Mr President the new rule on dishwashers isn't yet settled there's uh there's still time for my colleagues at the department of energy to scrap this Rule and and walk away from this fallacious nonsense and I hope that they will thank you Mr President I suggest the absence of Accord the clerk will

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Published: Thu Jun 15 2023