{"id":34736,"date":"2016-05-05T02:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T06:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34736"},"modified":"2016-05-04T09:37:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T13:37:13","slug":"all-regulations-have-obvious-costs-and-hidden-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/05\/05\/all-regulations-have-obvious-costs-and-hidden-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"All regulations have obvious costs and hidden costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theartsmechanical.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/01\/do-the-regulators-at-doe-and-the-epa-ever-use-any-appliances\/\" target=\"_blank\">J.C. Carlton<\/a> explains why the US government&#8217;s latest regulatory intervention in the dishwasher market is pretty much guaranteed to make dishwashers more expensive <em>and<\/em> less capable:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; it\u2019s amazing how much doesn\u2019t work, or works poorly because of the rules that bureaucrats come up with. Yet time and again the bureaucrat\u2019s solution is always more cowbell. For some reason they think that because something may have worked before, it will always work as long as you just do it more. The fact is that no matter what you do, that 24% energy \u201csavings\u201d and 38% less water use are going to have to come from somewhere. My guess is that it will come from making dishwashers that do a very lousy job of actually washing dishes or are terribly expensive.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s only so much you can do. 24% less electricity means that you will have to use a smaller motor, a smaller heating element, or both. You might have to use different heating elements or motors that work at different times during the cycle. More than likely you will have to use complicated electronics to run it all. Even when you are all done with meeting the mandate, you will end up with a machine that just doesn\u2019t work very well. Which also costs more and has to be serviced more often to boot. How much savings to you get it the reliability is halved and the truck has to keep coming out for service calls. That\u2019s the problem with those one-dimensional rules. They tend to cost more in compliance than they actually save.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Of course the endless quest for false efficiencies does have its costs. Somehow the bureaucrats never seem to have to pay those costs in their lives, or at least aren\u2019t effected enough by the pain to notice. I have to wonder if whoever came up with the 1 gallon toilet ever flushes. Does the Energy Star guy never have to go shopping for appliances and when he gets home finds out that it barely works?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J.C. Carlton explains why the US government&#8217;s latest regulatory intervention in the dishwasher market is pretty much guaranteed to make dishwashers more expensive and less capable: &#8230; it\u2019s amazing how much doesn\u2019t work, or works poorly because of the rules that bureaucrats come up with. 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