Via the Goddess Diogenes herself:
We here at the Department of Energy wanted to thank you for being conscientious about your energy usage this summer. Your efforts haven’t gone unnoticed. As a token of our gratitude, we wanted to highlight all the small but powerful steps you’ve taken to conserve energy over the past few months—and…
…then it falls headlong off the High Cliffs of Sarcasm immediately. Read it all, but first I’m going to issue a standard Swallow Coffee Before Reading Alert.
(I meant to post this over a week ago, saving the link, but it fell through the cracks as these things do. Fear not, for despite my stupidity, her post is as timely as its original publication date. Enjoy.)
I regularly get letters from the power company showing me how I compare with neighbors on energy usage. They have a cute little green/yellow/orange indication of where I am. I am, of course, always in orange. I keep hoping they’ll add a fourth indicator in bright red so I can be there.
There are no number or statistics presented. Just the implied “you should use less power”.
Sod off, you commie wankers, I’m going to air condition my house if I want to!
I damn near pee’d my pants when I read it the last week.