Yes, this is all about “climate change”
(The Hill)  Companies that make dishwashers are warning that the Obama administration’s latest efficiency standards for their industry would backfire.
The Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers is accusing the Department of Energy (DOE) of a politically motivated drive to increase dishwasher efficiency, which are so bad that they would cause consumers to re-wash dishes, erasing any efficiency gains.
Some of the group’s members, which include companies like GE Appliances & Lighting and Whirlpool Corp., tweaked their models to comply with the DOE’s December proposal to ratchet up standards.
They then ran standard tests with food stuck to dishes.
“They found some stuff that was pretty disgusting,†McAver said.
The road to hell is paved with Progressive (nice fascist) good intentions, as the saying goes
When it released the proposal in December, DOE estimated that it would save 240 billion gallons over a 30-year period and reduce energy consumption by 12 percent. That would shave $2 billion of consumers’ utility bills, the agency said.
It would also reduce the output of air pollutants that are common in the power generation sector, including carbon dioxide, methane, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and mercury. The carbon savings alone would bring billions of dollars in environmental benefits, the administration argued.
Even the water savings part is about Hotcoldwetdry. Yet another Big Government control policy that has unintended consequences.
