[ides_dev]

I’ve never read a press release by a US government agency before, so it may be the standard, but the language in it strikes me as petty and childish, especially the last piece; “sprinkler nozzles that just don’t work well”.

“The people, not the government, should be choosing the home appliances and products they want at prices they can afford.” - you still get to choose which appliance you have in your home, but the government is there to help ensure that appliance is reliable and efficient.

[s1artibartfast]

>you still get to choose which appliance you have in your home, but the government is there to help ensure that appliance is reliable and efficient.

I suspect that many people have the opposite experience and blame the government for inefficient and unreliable products. I most often experience and hear others complain about water efficient washing machines.

[userbinator]

The "high efficiency" ones also tend to be far more complex and unreliable as a result. There's plenty of complaints on HN about them too.