The EPA Energy Star program which encourages and certifies energy efficient appliances and HVAC systems is, according to this LA Times story, voluntary, cost-effective and “immensely popular.”
So naturally the Trumpist free-market fanatics, led by energy-industry whore Myron Ebell, want to get rid of it.
Until Trump took office, the voices of a handful of free-market think tanks that dismissed the program as unnecessary government meddling had barely registered in Washington. Now they have the ear of the White House.
“I just think it is something government should not be doing,” Ebell said, “and therefore we should get rid of it. If it has value, private industry can pick it up.”
Everyone else in the story (except for another energy-industry whore from the Heritage Foundation) emphatically disagrees.
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