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This March 9, 2010, file photo shows an Energy Star label at an appliance store in Mountain View, Calif. President Donald Trump is seeking to eliminate funding for Energy Star, which encourages efficiency in major appliances, office equipment, lighting and home electronics.
Paul Sakuma, Associated Press file
This March 9, 2010, file photo shows an Energy Star label at an appliance store in Mountain View, Calif. President Donald Trump is seeking to eliminate funding for Energy Star, which encourages efficiency in major appliances, office equipment, lighting and home electronics.

Re: “Companies decry Trump plan to eliminate Energy Star program,” April 25 news story.

I thought Donald Trump was a businessman extraordinaire. Yet his desire to eliminate the Energy Star program, presumably because it comes under the aegis of the Environmental Protection Agency, shows that he really is either not that savvy a business person (as his multiple bankruptcies show) or he is blinded by his ideology trying to eliminate anything EPA.

As The Denver Post’s article explains, the program costs $50 million per year to administer yet saves consumers $34 billion per year in energy savings.

Even a supposed business whiz like our boy president can see that is a good investment not only for the consumer but for the energy independence and infrastructure of our country.

Tom Sabel, Lakewood

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