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Andy Burns wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

It would, of course, be silly to restrict power on a kettle which is
near 100% efficient. And I'll eat my hat if the EU do bring in a upper
limit for them, on the grounds of efficiency.

Why legislate to limit the maximum, why not just mandate an A-F rating
and let people *choose* what they want?

No point really in specifying this on a kettle as they are so close to
100% efficient.

After all the rating system is what they did for fridges/freezers and
they're probably the top household appliances for energy use (in
non-electric heated houses).

It's quite possible they are looking at all domestic appliances. But of
course the Europe hating press have to single out one to make a song and
dance about. Before any real proposals are made.

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