"Erik" wrote in message
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Always had a feeling 'Energy Star' ratings were a mostly bogus hype...
looks like I was right.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.../03/26/2322208

Erik

So is the lesson that energy efficiency ratings are inherently worthless, or
that such ratings need to have some teeth in them to be useful, i.e.
independent testing and serious fines for fraud?