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Energy Department Says It Has ‘Mandate’ to Force ‘Market Transformation’ for Household Appliances
CNSNews ^ | September 17, 2010 | Penny Starr

Posted on 09/17/2010 2:43:45 PM PDT by jazusamo

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To: Madame Dufarge

I would like to flush them all down the toilet, but I’d probably have to illegally import one from Canada.


41 posted on 09/17/2010 3:24:14 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: jazusamo

RAT infested ship...that’s the State of the Union right now....RAT infested ship.


42 posted on 09/17/2010 3:24:21 PM PDT by parisa
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To: jazusamo
“As the secretary [Chu] says, ‘We’re going to make people save money for themselves,’” Zoi said. “They haven’t dumped the dollar bills on the ground yet.”

OK, I'm stumped, what on earth does that bolded statement above mean?

“We’ve already issued appliance standards that are going to save the American public....... just by getting the crummy stuff off the market.”

Hey, I like my crummy stuff, it still works and I can't afford all your shiny non-crummy stuff as fast as you apparently are going to force me to buy it - stfu

43 posted on 09/17/2010 3:25:05 PM PDT by libertarian27 (Ingsoc: Department of Life, Department of Liberty, Department of Happiness)
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To: jazusamo

She is a Communist idiot. Screw her.


44 posted on 09/17/2010 3:25:28 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (counter revolutionary)
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To: jazusamo

So when my ancient refrig goes, a new one will cost about $5000 so Obama and all can get their piece.


45 posted on 09/17/2010 3:25:39 PM PDT by Hattie
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To: sportutegrl

Doesn’t she look like a clone of that other one Hussein just appointed (Warren)?? Don’t they all look like clones of each other with their Bolshevik glasses? I feel like I’m in the “Stepford Wives.”


46 posted on 09/17/2010 3:30:57 PM PDT by Borax Queen
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To: Bronzy

That is what we plan to do when we go to build our house.I want real toilets not the junk we can buy here now.


47 posted on 09/17/2010 3:31:18 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: jazusamo; All

...she and her husband are up to their eyeballs in energy driven stock deals....take a quick peek at this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_Zoi


48 posted on 09/17/2010 3:31:58 PM PDT by STONEWALLS
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To: Borax Queen
Henceforth, all Stepford wives shall wear Bolshevik glasses........

*Loud creepy voice* Muahahahahahahaha.

49 posted on 09/17/2010 3:33:31 PM PDT by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: jazusamo

It’s for our own good, ya know.


50 posted on 09/17/2010 3:34:44 PM PDT by Eagle Eye (A blind clock finds a nut at least twice a day.)
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To: jazusamo

It’s for our own good, ya know.


51 posted on 09/17/2010 3:35:04 PM PDT by Eagle Eye (A blind clock finds a nut at least twice a day.)
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To: taxtruth

Nixon,maybe? not sure and im to lazy too look it up.


52 posted on 09/17/2010 3:39:20 PM PDT by freedomtrail (Real men dont pilot drones.)
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To: STONEWALLS
Yeah, that figures!

From your link:

Zoi has also worked for several energy-focused organizations

Translation = Enviro nazi orgs

53 posted on 09/17/2010 3:40:50 PM PDT by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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To: muawiyah
Govt. Energy Star Program a Farce

Snip: The federal agency recently swayed by the industry it regulates to conceal a hazardous chemical has been duped into labeling bogus products as greenhouse emissions-decreasing energy savers that qualify for government rebates.

This certainly indicates that Uncle Sam’s highly-touted Energy Star program, which offers hundreds of millions of dollar in rebates to those who use “energy efficient” products, is a big joke or at the very least a waste of public funds.

The scandal-plagued Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) runs the program along with the Department of Energy (DOE) and millions of tax dollars have been spent to encourage Americans to use its approved products. In fact, Energy Star just got a $300 million infusion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act so states can offer rebates.

Now a congressional investigation reveals that products carrying the coveted Energy Star label may not be efficient after all because the program is highly vulnerable to fraud. More than a dozen fake items, including a “gasoline-powered alarm clock” and nonexistent dehumidifiers and heat pumps, submitted for approval easily secured the Energy Star label, according to a report issued this week by the Government Accountability Office.

54 posted on 09/17/2010 3:40:52 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: Army Air Corps; SolitaryMan; rdl6989; livius; DollyCali; IrishCatholic; meyer; SteamShovel; ...
Thanx again, AAC !

 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

55 posted on 09/17/2010 3:42:42 PM PDT by steelyourfaith ("Release the Second Chakra !!!!!!!" ... Al Gore, 10/24/06)
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To: Lakeshark

BAD Sharky! He lives!!! *boxing gloves on*

:0)


56 posted on 09/17/2010 3:42:58 PM PDT by Borax Queen
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To: jazusamo

Incandescent light bulbs are one of the most efficient types of heaters around.

And they are being outlawed.


57 posted on 09/17/2010 3:43:17 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (King: "I have a dream"...Sharpton: "I want a check")
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To: Mac n Jac

Sad but ture—and what pray tell happens if you do not have the money to buy a new appliance-if they lowered the $2,900.00 which my husband has deducted form his paycheck in taxes monthly maybe we could afford a new appliance. I have had it with these people liars and cheaters and stealers is what they are


58 posted on 09/17/2010 3:44:29 PM PDT by funfan
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To: jazusamo
“The fourth one, which the secretary and I love,” said Zoi, “is where we have a mandate. Where we can actually just issue regulations and do market transformation.”

The party of "choice."

Pol Pot and Josef Stalin "loved" this power too.

59 posted on 09/17/2010 3:45:26 PM PDT by denydenydeny ("Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." Thomas Mann)
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To: Fresh Wind

We’re stockpiling those.... Who knew we’d have to buy them on the black market in our country?? I think they’ll continue to be made in Mexico, but it’s kind of scary to go down there now. We did have a legislator who tried to pass a bill to exempt us from the national fascist restriction, but Brewer vetoed the bill.


60 posted on 09/17/2010 3:48:12 PM PDT by Borax Queen
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