President’s Vampire Slayer

On June 28, 2001, President George W. Bush of the United States, while discussing federal conservation initiatives with Department of Energy employees and presenting his conservation energy legislation plan. He referenced Buffy’s job when talking about appliances that carry high energy costs. President Bush stated:

“And today, as well, I want to talk about what’s called vampires, and announce to the nation the new vampire slayer, and that’s the Secretary of Energy, Spence Abraham.” (Laughter and applause.) “Because of our desire for instant convenience, many of the appliances in our homes carry unnecessarily high energy costs… As a matter of fact, it said that these vampires, the vampire devices use about 4 percent of the electricity in the average home. And to put this on a national scale, if we multiplied the vampire devices’ energy consumption across the country, we’re talking about 52 billion kilowatt hours of power a year, or the equivalent of 26 average-size power plants.
“And so today, not only am I announcing that Spence is the vampire slayer — and by that, I mean that the federal government will work hard to purchase and promote those energy savers that only use one watt of energy as opposed to the average four or seven watts of energy.”
   
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