Now, trump and showerheads
Fuck you, asshole. Here’s the story from the Washington Post. (I added the bold and italicized font to highlight the insanity.) The whole thing is fucking stupid and shows how trivial we have become as a society.
After weathering complaints from Trump about how hard it is wash his hair in modern showers, the department proposed Wednesday new water efficiency rules for them.
“The plan would allow manufacturers to bypass a 2.5 gallon-per-minute maximum flow rate set by Congress in the 1990s. Under current law, each showerhead in a shower counts toward that limit,” Bloomberg News reports. “If finalized, the administration plan would allow multiple shower nozzles with 2.5 gallon-per-minute heads to each meet that requirement separately.”
Consumer and conservation groups say the move is wasteful, especially at a time of drought out West, and that there is no public outcry for the change — except for from one man.
"So showerheads — you take a shower, the water doesn’t come out," Trump said at the White House last month. “You want to wash your hands, the water doesn’t come out. So what do you do? You just stand there longer or you take a shower longer? Because my hair — I don’t know about you, but it has to be perfect.”
The Department of Energy bowed to the king and proposed rule changes. Here, from EcoWatch:
The latest Department of Energy (DOE) plan follows its rollbacks on lightbulb and dishwasher standards, as well as President Donald Trump's repeated complaints about water-saving appliances. But consumer advocates say the changes are unnecessary, and would harm both the environment and American pocketbooks.
"Frankly it's silly," Appliance Standards Awareness Project Executive Director Andrew deLaski told The Associated Press. "The country faces serious problems. We've got a pandemic, serious long-term drought throughout much of the West. We've got global climate change. Showerheads aren't one of our problems."
The rollback targets a 1992 law mandating that showerheads can't release more than 2.5 gallons of water per minute. The law does not allow the DOE to set less rigorous standards, but the Trump administration has found a way around that, deLaski explained in a blog post:
The trick DOE is floating here is to try to dodge the law by reinterpreting what the word "showerhead" means. The proposal, if finalized, would allow manufacturers to make giant showerheads with several nozzles within them. DOE proposes to accomplish this through a change in the test procedure that would characterize each of those separate nozzles as a showerhead. The full device could have as many 2.5 gallon-per-minute showerheads as the manufacturer wants. Get it?
