{"id":483289,"date":"2010-03-28T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864176.post-3031290250128626384"},"modified":"2010-03-28T17:42:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T21:42:53","slug":"fake-gasoline-powered-alarm-clock-secures-energy-star-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/483289","title":{"rendered":"Fake Gasoline-Powered Alarm Clock Secures Energy Star Label"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inhabitat has a post on the seeming ease with which non-energy efficient products can get an energy star rating &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inhabitat.com\/2010\/03\/26\/fake-gasoline-powered-alarm-clock-secures-energy-star-label\/\">Fake Gasoline-Powered Alarm Clock Secures Energy Star Label<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Apparently, it\u2019s a piece of cake to get Energy Star-certified \u2014 just ask the Congressional auditors who received approval for a number of ridiculous fake products, including a gasoline-powered alarm clock and an air purifier consisting of a space heater with a feather duster on top. Other fake products, including a dehumidifier, dishwasher, and computer monitor, were accepted into the program with no questions asked about fake qualifications (i.e. energy efficiency data).<\/p>\n<p>Does this mean we should question all Energy Star labels? No \u2014 most companies aren\u2019t in the business of submitting fake products to the Energy Star program \u2014 but the auditing process does indicate that Energy Star officials accept qualifications without doing background research. The New York Times noted that the \u201cease with which the auditors had fooled the program suggested that consumers and agencies that rely on the logo were paying extra for products that might not actually save energy\u201c.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inhabitat.com\/2010\/03\/26\/fake-gasoline-powered-alarm-clock-secures-energy-star-label\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.inhabitat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/26mar10alfab32r.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-2189376323632485\";\n\/* 728x90, created 5\/18\/08 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"3866831776\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 728;\ngoogle_ad_height = 90;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/9864176-3031290250128626384?l=peakenergy.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/sA8_O_McrDlqhYPSShckOD4Id-0\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/sA8_O_McrDlqhYPSShckOD4Id-0\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/sA8_O_McrDlqhYPSShckOD4Id-0\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/sA8_O_McrDlqhYPSShckOD4Id-0\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inhabitat has a post on the seeming ease with which non-energy efficient products can get an energy star rating &#8211; Fake Gasoline-Powered Alarm Clock Secures Energy Star Label. Apparently, it\u2019s a piece of cake to get Energy Star-certified \u2014 just ask the Congressional auditors who received approval for a number of ridiculous fake products, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":763,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}