By The Daily Caller (Opinion) | Created at 2025-01-22 00:14:09 | Updated at 2025-01-24 06:52:21
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January 21, 2025 4:31 PM ET
Immediately after being sworn in, Donald Trump got down to business signing dozens of executive orders. You’ll hear a lot about the decrees to pardon Jan 6. prisoners, slash the federal bureaucracy, and reverse the climate agenda, but one of the most noticeable changes likely won’t make the headlines.
Buried deep in the executive to “unleash American Energy” is a line about … lightbulbs and shower heads?!
As Section 2(f) reads, “It is the policy of the United States . . . to safeguard the American people’s freedom to choose from a variety of goods and appliances, including but not limited to lightbulbs, dishwashers, washing machines, gas stoves, water heaters, toilets, and shower heads, and to promote market competition and innovation within the manufacturing and appliance industries.”
You may not have noticed because the change occurred slowly and quietly. Maybe you moved into a new place in the last 10 years and just accepted the crappy shower pressure. Maybe the last time you went to the store, you just assumed they were out of incandescent bulbs; you’ll try again next time. But there would be no next time if the Green Mafia had its way. Taking away our everyday little joys and conveniences were part and parcel of the green agenda. (RELATED: Sign up for Daily Caller Newsletter, ‘Cultured’)
We all know about the war on gas stoves.
Less known is the 2013 rule by Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency that mandated shower head manufactures meet a low-flow standard. You’ll stand under a cool trickle of water and you’ll like it, pleb!
Equally galling is Department of Energy’s decades-long march to phase out incandescent lightbulbs, which finally took full effect in the final months of Biden administration. Instead of the warm inviting light our ancestors took for granted, we are forced to live unnatural harshness of LEDs. You now can enjoy the same light in your living room as you have in your corporate cubicle.
Renewing oil independence or slashing federal bloat might have a bigger, long-term impact for the country. But it’s the little things we feel on a day to day basis. Strong water pressure, a homey natural light — these are life’s little joys we always took for granted. Trump’s restoration won’t just make life more enjoyable, but serves as a rebuke to the petty bureaucrats who believe they have right to control our lives in the first place. (RELATED: Sign up for Daily Caller Newsletter, ‘Cultured’)
