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Is it a high efficiency machine? If not, you've probably paid for a replacement 2 times over in extra electricity costs (assuming your dryer is electric).
"Southern states like Texas, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina among the most impacted."
"In short, U.S. taxpayers will end up footing half the bill."
My dryer is gas but i was clearly talking about my washer! Don’t think it’s high efficiency,
Southern states like Texas, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina among the most impacted."
FNWGMOBDVZXDNW saysIs it a high efficiency machine? If not, you've probably paid for a replacement 2 times over in extra electricity costs (assuming your dryer is electric).
Huh? My dryer is gas but i was clearly talking about my washer! Don’t think it’s high efficiency, but how much juice could it really draw? I run a pool pump and a 2k sqf house with three kids who are always leaving the lights on. My electric bill still is usually less than $140. I got this thing for free from my last landlord who thought it was too old! “Take it with you”, he said. So I did! Six years later, I’ve replaced a dryer but not the washer! ‘Murica!
Replace the washer. It probably sucks up to much electricity
But total cost of ownership might be lower.
Everyone I’ve known who has bought a new fancy front loader has regretted it.
Who the fuck will buy a washer if it costs, say, 40% more this year, and they know it will go back down in a couple of years?
FNWGMOBDVZXDNW saysWho the fuck will buy a washer if it costs, say, 40% more this year, and they know it will go back down in a couple of years?
Are you saying that if your washing machine conks out tomorrow you'll wait couple of years to buy a replacement? ;)
Find the same model for sale on Craigslist-appliances,garage sales & use it for parting out.
I've paid almost nothing for junk & repaired my other junk.
One can repair almost anything using info from the web.
There's a financial calculator here:
do they sell a machine I don't hear bitching about? Thats the one I want.
If you're so concerned with the cost of washing clothes,If you're so unconcerned about the topic of this conversation, which is the balance of operating costs and capital costs of appliances in general and washer/dryers in particular, then perhaps you should not participate in it.
IIRC, when I purchased my first HE washer, the analysis showed that it would pay for itself in savings over a normal top loader without a particularly long life span.
Right. But the jump from 10y.o. HE washer to the latest stuff won't be anywhere close as dramatic. Therefore the argument that it's not really worth it to "upgrade" unless your existing machine is dead or dying.
"all American jobs and keeping those profits in the U.S.
If LG abandons the plant - no jobs.
and BAO is taking it at face value
If you're so concerned with the cost of washing clothes, maybe there's some BIGGER issues in your budget and income to worry about than water and detergent.
If doing a couple loads of laundry a week blows your budget because of costs, well, it's time for your husband to get a better job.
Do you call this advice?
Rich people save money... the broke spend it.
I’d like a rational explanation as to why they would do this. The article neglected to offer one, although they strongly hinted and spun the message that way. So perhaps you have personal insight? Why would LG stop ongoing plans to manufacture in the USA when the new tariff would strongly encourage them to double down on such plans?
‘Splain to me!
not to mention the environmental cost of shipping this shit back and forth across the Atlantic on barges the size of New Jersey that get 1000 ft/gallon of diesel fuel
Fuck this arrangement. We're not starting a trade war, there has always been a trade war- we just might stop losing for a change. The markets will hate it in the short term, but where archaic companies see a problem, new companies will see opportunity. As far as retaliation, what is China going to do- sell their cheap, shitty goods in the other largest consumer economy in the world? They need us more than we need them. This is a massive step in the right direction.
Now if we can just literally remove New Jersey from our landmass and out to the sea. That would truly be winning.
The situation we are in is one of our doing, not the Chinese, Japanese, Germans, Russians, South Koreans, or anyone else. It is us.
Consumers want lower priced goods - we got it, along with a lot of things we didn't want.
Consumers wanted lower priced transportation - we have that now and not quite as wonderful as first promised.
Don't like the outcome - vote first with your wallet and then at the voting booth
The steel industry jobs aren't coming back
The coal mining jobs aren't coming back
The aluminum smelters aren't going back to the way things were
If you liked the 1950s 1960s and 1970s - watch reruns on the television or the movies - that world just like the movie is Gone With The Wind
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https://apnews.com/5f68ab2a45124b29be5dfbfc474dde73/Trump-hits-solar-panels,-washing-machines-with-tariffs
US Trade Rep Robert "Lightsaber" Lighthizer:
https://ustr.gov/about-us/policy-offices/press-office/press-releases/2018/january/president-trump-approves-relief-us#