{"id":8550,"date":"2010-12-01T20:24:13","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T02:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=8550"},"modified":"2010-12-02T10:46:34","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T16:46:34","slug":"in-the-name-of-the-king-review-this-meaningless-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/01\/in-the-name-of-the-king-review-this-meaningless-number\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Name of the King, Review This Meaningless Number!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government-mandated EnergyGuide from my new dishwasher:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/energyguide.jpg\" width=\"425\" alt=\"A useless bit of trivia courtesy the FTC\"><\/p>\n<p>Note the assumptions on the bottom:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Estimated costs based on <em>four loads a week<\/em>.  Hey, we eat 3 meals a day here, cook them, and sometimes bake with them.  What kind of family does four loads a week of dishes, really?  Some fluffy yuppie couple in the city with a standard-sized restaurant dishwasher?<\/li>\n<li>Estimated costs are based on <em>2007<\/em> energy costs.  Remember those halcyon days?  Back before the depression?<\/li>\n<li>Estimated costs based on natural gas?  Well and good for you city folk, but we&#8217;re in the country here.  We pay whatever David&#8217;s boss tells him to charge us when he fills up our Liquid Propane tank.<\/li>\n<li>The standard for &#8220;standard&#8221; sized washer is not given in actual, you know, cubic feet nor anything.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This number is meaningless, but thanks to the government, IT MUST BE PRESENTED so I can better make up my mind which color suits my decor better and which one looks like its moving and grabbing parts are made of the least cheap plastic.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I could blame this on a Democrat, but I know that the ruling party in Washington is the Entrenched Bureaucrat Party.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks for the link, <a href=\"http:\/\/booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/i-feel-fluffy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tam<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government-mandated EnergyGuide from my new dishwasher: Note the assumptions on the bottom: Estimated costs based on four loads a week. Hey, we eat 3 meals a day here, cook them, and sometimes bake with them. What kind of family does four loads a week of dishes, really? Some fluffy yuppie couple in the city [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8550"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8556,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8550\/revisions\/8556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}