COMMENTARY | Imagine "them" wearing open-collared blue button-down shirts and staring into outdated computer screens while sitting in cubicles in an energy compliantin Washington's .
If "they" are women, they will be wearing crisp collared blouses with dark slacks and medium heels and chunky costume jewelry necklaces.
They are the invisible army of the Environmental Protection Agency. In my imagination, "they" spend their idle hours dreaming of machines they can strip of power sufficient to affix an "" label.
EPA bureaucrats routinely wrap themselves in the saintly mantle of environmentalism when they pursue purely politicalthat often regulate everyday useful objects out of existence.
The EPA likely contributed to the demise of the company which manufactured our demonic energy non-compliant washing machine, which happens to have lasted for over twenty years.
That washer died eight years ago. Since then, we are on our third "Energy Star Compliant" washer and the clothing seemseven after washing.
The two failed "energy compliant" washing machines that preceded the current one are orbiting like space junk in a reclamation plant somewhere in a universe of cheaply made and unreliable energy compliant j