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Michael Heberling, "Washing Your Clothes Washington's Way," in Ideas on Liberty (January 2002), 30 South Broadway, Irvington-on-Hudson, New York 10533
In the early 1990s, the federal government outlawed traditional toilets in favor of "low-flow" toilets that, while allegedly saving water, were more inefficient and cost more than the toilets that were banned. Now, reports Baker College scholar Michael Heberling, Washington is set to ban the top-loading washing machine.
Currently, about 90 percent of the washers sold in the U.S. are top-loaders. But under regulations approved by the Bush Administration in April 2001, top-loading washers are to be superseded by side-loaders. The Department of Energy says the new washers are environmentally ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Washing machine menace. (Science And Environment).(Brief Article)