The political campaign to use less fossil-fuel energy has real-world consequences, and one is that modern appliances don’t work like they used to. The Trump Energy Department wants to let manufacturers make better dishwashers, and consumers are welcoming the idea. The dirty little nonsecret for years has been that modern dishwashers don’t clean dishes well. The culprit is federal efficiency standards, which have been tightened to use less energy. Dishwashers that once took an hour from wash to...

Source: Wall Street Journal October 13, 2019 21:45 UTC