For instance, a gasoline-powered alarm clock sailed through the program without objection after purposely fraudulent documents were submitted saying it was 20-percent more efficient than competing models. How'd that happen? Apparently, there is an automated system in place that granted an auto-approval to the gas-swilling wake-up machine."
Any alarm clock with bigger than a four cylinder is just overkill unless you’re a really sound sleeper.
There was also a space heater with a feather duster taped to it that got the “Energy Star” seal of approval. John Stossel did a segment a short while back on the colossal joke that is Energy Star.