Next EU Meddling Target: Vacuum Cleaners

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BBC News Article

Seriously flawed logic here, a more powerful vacuum cleaner does the job more quickly, so won't be running for as long. Is there anything in our day-to-day lives that the EU doesn't want to meddle with? Thankfully I have a 2200 watt Miele with 9 years of warranty left, so I can give Brussels the finger well into the next decade.

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I hope they don't start looking at our ovens and thinking there's room for regulations there too. Imagine having to come home and wait for 2 hours for your 600 watt oven to cook the tea. You won't like me when I'm hungry!

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hairyben said:

What irritates me is if the EUocrats wanted to help the environment and or increase efficiency, then they could simply make every vacuum (and every other appliance) come with an unconditional 10 yr warranty and product support. End the whole throw-it-away and buy another culture. but that would mean growing balls, standing up and upsetting the gravy train instead of pretending-to-care plastic policy'd tinkering parasitic skimming flotsam that they are.

That is a damn fine suggestion, add 'user servicability' amongst that legislation and end the waste. I kid you not, my folks were going to throw away a Flymo because the blade was blunted and the bolt was stuck tight. I offered to take it off their hands, loosened the bolt, touched up the blade on the bench grinder and re-assembled - free lawn mower! I get quite sick of this 'throw it away because it's broken' culture. I've got a perfectly good garage vacuum cleaner at the moment because its previous owner threw it out due to a non-functioning brush-bar.