This week, CEI criticized Consumer Reports for reporting a high-performing shower head to federal authorities-not because it is defective or fraudulently advertised, but because it exceeds government limits on shower head water flow. CEI General Counsel, Sam Kazman had this to say about the review:
“Consumer Reports has it backwards, [...]Its duty is to consumers, not bureaucrats. It should not be acting as a nosy bathroom cop, trying to toss good products in the slammer just because they violate some intrusive federal regulation. More basically, people ought to be able to use whatever shower fixtures they want, just like they can decide how long a shower to take. This is a really victimless crime.”
Amanda Carpenter of the Washington Times commented on the issue in Tuesday’s paper.
“Sound the alarm. Consumer Reports has alerted the environmental authorities about a law-breaking shower head.”
EPA, meanwhile, is planning to reduce shower head flow even more in the near future. Mr. Kazman stated that Consumers Union, the magazine’s publisher, “will probably support this, because it, like the federal government, doesn’t care if consumers get soaked.”
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First it was low-flow toilets that are so inefficient that people actually smuggle good toilets in from Canada. Low flow is nice except when you have to flush twice to get the job done … then all of the advantage is gone.
Now low-flow shower heads that will allow perhaps 200 drops per minute to get the job done. Result is that you will need to spend twice the time at half the speed. NO Savings! NO avantage !!
But legislators and bureaucrats will thump their breasts and loudly boast that they "did something" even if it was profoundly stupid and counter productive.
I know: I'm going to market a shower head modification kit for existing shower heads and provide service centers around the country to modify new ones for you before installation. $$$ MILLIONS !!! And the impotent "greens" can push government to try to catch up.
Hey Government: Leave us the hell alone. Don't you have better things to worry about — something like containing the deficit that you've ballooned in order to get us out of debt?
'nuff said
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