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Dec. 12, 2024 - The David Knight Show
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The "Laundry Liberty Act" Passes
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Tennessee Representative Andy Ogle got Congress to pass a bill prohibiting new energy standards on clothes washing machines.
And it's now passed the House.
See, it has some very, you know, this quote-unquote scientific debate, which we're not allowed to see any data on.
The so-called scientism, you know, is what it really is.
It has real practical, real-world experiences for us, because what it means is it's got big implications for not just your lifestyle, but your life expectancy and your liberty.
You know, they're going to come after your mobility.
They're going to come after your food.
They're going to come after your liberty.
Everything about this.
They want to starve you.
They want to enslave you.
They want a new dark ages.
And they want a kind of neo-feudalism.
That's really what this is all about.
It has nothing to do with global warming made by human beings.
Nothing at all.
So this is a bill introduced by Andy Ogle of Tennessee and to the U.S. Congress.
I love the name of the bill.
Liberty and Laundry Act.
Liberty and Laundry Act.
Because they want to take away our liberty everywhere, even in the laundry room.
It would prohibit the U.S. Department of Energy's secretary from prescribing or enforcing energy conservation standards for clothes washers that are not cost-effective or technologically feasible.
And the interesting thing is, is that 200 Democrats voted against this.
Only 8 voted for it.
So 200 to 8 Democrats don't want you to have even a washing machine that works, that you can afford.
And of course, they don't want you to be able to cook your food in the way that you choose, or to heat your house in the way that you choose, or to drive the car that you choose.
These people are petty tyrants, but of course they all base it on this fear.
My greatest fear is how effective they have been in terms of brainwashing children through their institutions because every successive generation, I've seen this ramping up, every successive generation is buying into this more and more.
The first Earth Day happened in 1970. I was in high school.
And I remember there was only a handful of hippie nerds, I guess you could call them, that were kind of the Venn diagram of we have hippies and you have nerds.
They overlapped.
These are the small number of people that were all outraged about the world is going to end and all the rest of the stuff, and all the rest of us were laughing at them.
There they go again.
But now that's become the majority opinion because of the relentless propaganda, the hectoring, the gaslighting that happens through the schools.
And so the bill was filed in response to the Department of Energy's announcement earlier this year of its proposed updated standards for new washing machines and clothes dryers.
The Department of Energy cited its authority to impose such standards under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, the EPCA, which was created by Congress in 1975. Now, wait a minute.
That's kind of interesting.
You know, the timing of all of that.
That was created in 1975. You know, what was really happening with that?
Because, you know, the Department of Energy, I should say, Department of Energy, wasn't created until 1977. So they're claiming authority for this because it goes back to 1975. And so, you know, first of all, before I get into the timing here, I've got to say, this is great, it's clever, Liberty and Laundry Act, but it's too narrowly defined.
Do I have Liberty and Cooking?
Okay.
He should have the Cooking with Gas Act.
You know, now we're cooking with gas.
Maybe he should have Liberty is Hot.
Something like that, you know, some catchy thing.
But he needs to broaden this out.
And if you go back and you look at the foundation of this thing, the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, it's kind of interesting because the way that the government has taken over both automobiles and now they want to take over our appliances that we have at home and also our heating and air conditioning.
They want to take all that over and they want to destroy it.
And where does that all come?
Both of those things come from this Energy Conservation and Preservation Act.
And here's how it came about.
In 1973, we had the OPEC oil embargo.
That got everybody concerned about, we're not going to have any energy.
We've got to save it, you know, and everything.
So you have Nixon imposes the 55 mile an hour speed limit and all the rest of this stuff.
And in 1975...
Two years after the OPEC oil embargo, they passed this EPCA thing.
And what it did was that Congress gave additional power to the President to be able to restrict the export of fuel.
They like to call it fossil fuel.
To restrict the export of fuel, also the equipment to explore, to refine, to produce fuel, all of that stuff.
So this is a counter-OPEC move.
And they did cut exports of oil and things like that with this.
And then it had another couple of parts that were very specific.
The first part is where we get our corporate average fuel economy, the dreaded cafe.
This is the one where they average together the alleged fuel economy of all these different cars and say, when we average them all together, your cars have to achieve a certain efficiency or we're going to penalize you.
With fees, right?
So this is the thing that's always driving this type of thing.
Part B was energy conservation programs that would apply to appliances.
And now they have stretched that out to apply to 60 different product categories.
And so even though the EPA, I'm sorry, the EPA was created by Nixon, the Department of Energy was created two years after this thing.
They kind of took this authority of the president and put it into these deep state alphabet agencies that were created after the fact.
And so the Department of Energy says, hey, we got this law that was there.
Well, okay, well, we had that law.
Now what they did was they just took it away in terms of washing machines and dryers.
Unfortunately, that's all they did.
What Congress really needs to do, instead of playing these narrow little games of washing machines and dryers, they need to get rid of the EPA and the Department of Energy.
These things were creations in the 1970s.
The Department of Energy was created by Jimmy Carter.
The EPA was created by Richard Nixon.
Let's get rid of those.
We don't need them.
They are antithetical to everything that America is about, everything the Constitution is about.
We do not need them.
They need to go.
But if you're not going to get rid of the Department of Energy, if you're not going to get rid of the EPA, then at least get rid of the EPCA, this piece of regulation that gave power to the President.
Congress created that act.
Congress can get rid of that act.
And so the argument that they've got here, it's like, okay, fine, you've got it, but we're going to take away your power when it comes to washing machines and dryers.
Take it away for everything!
If they were to get rid of the EPCA Act, who knows, maybe they'd get rid of the cafe garbage.
That'd be a big move towards liberty of mobility.
The Biden administration has consistently abused their authority, said Steve Scalise, House Majority Leader.
Of course, we've seen that.
To push a radical energy agenda on American families and consumers attempting to implement conservation standards that aren't economically justifiable or significantly more energy efficient.
Well, they don't have any authority to do any of this stuff anyway, right?
If you create an organization that says we're going to do this, but you don't have the constitutional authority to do that, then that act should be ruled unconstitutional.
That's the big elephant in the room that the Republicans don't want to look at.
The fact is, is that there is no authority in the Constitution for the EPA or the Department of Energy to exist.
There is no authority in the Constitution for Congress to give to the President powers that the federal government doesn't have.
None of this stuff holds up to the scrutiny of the Constitution.
And, of course, we've seen the horrific effects of it.
Scalise said the Department of Energy's new energy standards would take away consumers' choice, would burden American families struggling to get by, raising costs, forcing Americans to use appliances that do not perform as well.
Steve, that's the whole point.
This is not an unintended consequence of this.
That's the whole point.
That's the agenda.
Come on, get with it.
He's as clueless as that New Jersey congressman who says it's the Iranian mothership.
Yeah, I think it's the Iranians behind all this.
It's so horrible.
I mean, you know, could our own American government come up with something as nefarious?
It's got to be Iranians that are doing this to us.
They've got to be the ones who are in charge of the EPA and the Department of Energy.
Because whoever is...
Hates us.
Hates us with a passion.
Scalise said the new energy standards are part of the Biden administration's agenda to shut down the use of natural gas to force electric appliances on the American people, regardless of cost, performance, or availability.
Let's be clear, he said.
Biden and Washington bureaucrats' war on everyday household appliances only hurts American families and small businesses.
You should be able to decide what washing machine is best for you and your family, not to be forced to let the government decide for you.
So, the reality is that it's much worse than an inconvenience.
It's much worse than more money.
Because when you take a look at all of these regulations, folks, it's death by a thousand cuts.
And that's what it was intended to do.
Now, they don't want you to use, you know, 200 to 8. The Democrats don't want you to have a washing machine.
But, hey, artificial intelligence, clear the decks.
What are we going to do to have more electricity for artificial intelligence?
AI mega data centers are sending global electricity demand soaring.
And guess what?
With all the talk about nuclear power, none of that has been implemented and none of that will be implemented for years.
So, how are they getting their electricity?
Well, they're doing the kinds of stuff and using the kinds of power plants that they want to deny to us.
And even as they demand that we electrify everything so that they can then throttle us and everything in our life, it's not even about the cost of the appliances.
You've got to have an electric car.
You've got to have an electric washing machine, electric dryer, electric dishwasher, electric heater, electric air conditioning, and electric, electric, electric, you know, all things electric.
And then they're going to say, we haven't got enough electricity because we shut down all of our coal plants.
And that's the whole point.
Biden has set up a plan to shut down, I've got the statistics here, we'll get into that in a minute, but I think it was about nearly 90% of existing coal power plants in five years.
Just like a communist, he's got a five-year plan.
Well, what is happening in China?
China has already got 48% of the world's coal power plants.
The U.S. is in third place.
India is in second place.
India's got like 12%.
We've got just under 9% of the coal power plants.
China's got 48, and China is adding two of them per week.
Per week!
That's right, boys and girls.
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