Look at all them green jobs. There are so many Energy Star™ products on the market! Our government is making it easy to create green jobs by not checking if these things actually perform, or even if they exist.
The Government Accountability Office Punk’d Energy Star recently by submitting fake products and companies for certification. The Environmental Protection Agency’s arbiters of efficiency standards rubber-stamped 15 out of 20 bogus products and a handful of fake firms became Energy Star Partners. Here are three of our favorite fabrications.
The gasoline powered alarm clock has to be the coolest way to save electricity ever invented!!!
I want one!!! I want a Harley alarm clock. Think of all the electricity it’ll save!!!
But do they exist? Naaaaa…..
And from cheese to sleaze:
WTF is that thang, you may ax? That is an electric heater festooned with a feather duster and fly tape. It was approved as an energy-efficient air cleaner.
I’m going to apply for my Energy Star car that gets 500 miles to the gallon of water:
Why not?
Tags: Climate Change
