Where do you see energy star mandating anything besides disclosure?

If you want to be certified, sure, but that's voluntary.

The only thing energy star is going is mandating companies inform their customer so the customer can decide and compare products. The free market is making you dishwashers use less energy, not energy star

> getting rid of government agencies that do X rarely means that we get less X.

Do you have any examples where that has been the case?

>The fact that you would be perfectly happy choosing a more annoying appliance for lower overall energy consumption is merely validation of my belief that

I have re-read my own comment multiple times and I am not seeing where I said that I would be an annoying appliance at all. In fact, I say the exact opposite that the appliance is doing exactly what I would want it to do for trade offs. Are you replying to the wrong comment?

It's not either or. The market being comptutational device needs information inputs to run, which government mandates are very helpful for.

This coming from the administration that uses tariffs to force production to be happening in one place over another doesn't seem to be motivated by free market absolutist position either.

Good news. EnergyStar isn't a mandate.