Ah. It’s so sad when your friends disappoint you. But what do you call it when your government disappoints you? Par for the course?
It turns out the Energy Star rating doesn’t mean diddly. Well, maybe it meant a little something in the case of doors or windows or light, but otherwise it doesn’t mean much. That Energy Star rating on my new Blue Ray player – Hah! What a lame-o I was for actually thinking the US Government might actually care about doing a good job when energy conservation was concerned.
The Government Accounting Office, investigating activities at the Energy Star office, managed to get a design for a gasoline-powered alarm clock approved as an Energy Star appliance. The application was bogus. I wonder if I can get my left-handed smoke shifter Energy Star approved…
You can read about it in this New York Times piece: U.S. Tightens Requirements for Energy Star Certification, by MATTHEW L. WALD and LESLIE KAUFMAN.
New Energy Star regulations are suppose to be in place by the fall. Sure.
