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Fox Business Host Larry Kudlow Apparently Thinks Europeans Don't Have Light Bulbs Or Pizza [1]

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Date: 2023-07-27

Hey, are there any Europeans in the audience? Can someone please let us know if y'all are doing alright? Because from what we hear ( via a Daily Caller regurgitation of a Fox Business clip of Larry Kudlow) things are downright prehistoric over there.

"They Will Turn Us Into Europe,'' warns The Daily Caller's headline, quoting Kudlow's warning about the Biden administration’s proposed regulations that would require appliances to be more efficient. In other words, the government is telling companies to innovate and make their products consume less energy to save consumers money (and reduce the emissions driving climate change).

But according to Kudlow, a host on Fox News's business audience-aimed channel, these regulations "will turn us into Europe, which doesn't even have a lot of this stuff the way we do.” He explains, “What's this stuff? Well, for starters, how about shower heads, air conditioners, toilet flushing, light bulbs, washers and dryers, dishwashers, refrigerators, gas cars and trucks, coal fired pizza ovens, microwaves, and that's just for starters."

…What? Europe doesn't have toilet flushing or light bulbs? Or pizza ovens !? (And if people lived there for thousands of years without air conditioners , but now they feel like a requirement just to survive, isn't that just a sign the climate's warmed?)

Now, you may be thinking that this is an unfair interpretation and Kudlow is merely listing the things Biden’s proposed regulations would require companies to innovate. But no, Kudlow then claimed that "Joe Biden wants to take them away from us all in the name of climate change…" and quoted the estimated carbon reductions of these new rules (2.4 billion tons of greenhouse gasses, about 10 million homes worth) in a belittling fashion. "You mean all this for ending my ceiling fan, all this? My dehumidifier, my battery charger, my pool pump?"

Again, what? No one's getting rid of ceiling fans! If anything, it's the kind of thing climate activists encourage the use of as it's more energy efficient and can make it feel 7°F cooler before you even have to turn on the A/C.

And where in Europe has Larry Kudlow visited where they don't have pizza ovens or toilet flushing or shower heads or pools or ceiling fans? Certainly not Italy, given that Italians literally invented pizza and even ancient Romans enjoyed a basic form of A/C and cooling swims in the frigidarium!

Oh, and another fun fact: As air warms, it can hold more water, so if Kudlow's finding himself increasingly dependent on a dehumidifier, A/C, and cooling off in a pool, maybe, just maybe, it has something to do with all those greenhouse gasses warming the planet!

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