On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:20:10 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:33:42 -0400, "
wrote:




In "your" day, you didn't have Congress and the EPA in your private affairs,
either.

And the refrigerators worked well without computers in them. This
thread is a good reminder to keep what I have running as long as I
can.

That's a good plan, but irrelevant.

I admit that cars run better these days with the fuel injection and
computer settings, but refrigerators, dishwashers, and ranges don't
need all of that brain power to work well.

No, but they do "need" the higher efficiency. The government says so.