Biden admin's war on household appliances will cause higher prices, dirtier clothes and dishes, experts warn

The Biden administration's efforts to maximize energy efficiency of appliances through regulation could negatively impact consumers, according to experts and manufacturers.

"What these mandates, what these standards, do is enforce a level of efficiency that doesn't make sense," Ben Lieberman, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told Fox News Digital in an interview. "And they compromise product quality. We've already seen this to an extent with cost of clothes washer standards."  Thomas Catenacci is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.

"That's another problem — this is a regulatory program that's very long in the tooth and you're getting to the point where clothes washers — this might be the fifth time they've been regulated," he continued. "So we're really chasing after diminishing or nonexistent marginal returns."