| > Less water [use], sure, but more electricity Well, no. As dishwashers get more energy efficient, they tend to use less water as well[0]. And dishwashers have steadily been using less electricity and water. > One in five homes have just stopped using their dishwashers altogether The survey that is linked here[1] says "less than once per week," not "stopped altogether". The writer of the linked article suggests that the reason is the misconception that washing dishes by hand uses less energy, so people (especially in smaller or poorer households) are washing dishes by hand instead of using their dishwasher. > Thanks to federal mandates, all phosphates were eliminated from detergent Yep, those federal jerks hate us citizens having clean dishes! Or, wait, turns out those phosphates are environmentally damaging, which sounds like a good enough reason to me to remove them from detergent. Moving on to a more anecdotal response - I have literally never heard anyone complain about their dishwasher not working. I have never had or used a dishwasher that didn't clean the heck out of whatever was in it. The idea that "dishwashers are bad nowadays" is completely foreign to me. And, personally, it does strike me as pretty weird that Trump and the article author consider dishwashers to be a "feminist issue." [0]: https://aceee.org/files/proceedings/2008/data/papers/1_123.p... [1]: https://www.reviewed.com/dishwashers/news/survey-says-1-in-5... |