The government geeks that are making bets on how they can force us to be more efficient through their use of the government's monopoly on coercion - wouldn't it set a great example if they cleaned up their own act first? And anyway, given the so called 'efficiency gap', wouldn't this result in more savings to fund other massive government spending programs?
It'll never happen. Government incompetence is so endemic we don't even get angry about it any longer.
http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2009/07/23/energy-inefficiency
-the-department-of-energy-fails-another-audit/
"The latest report found that "the Energy Department failed in many cases to use controls on heating, ventilation and air conditioning that are a primary means of conserving energy during non-working hours," as Dow Jones Newswires put it. That could have cost the DOE more than $11 million."
