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Maybe people should just stop doing that.

I don't disagree, but how do we get there from here? Our "betters" have even had the gall to make this type of change in the recent past, and even to claim "energy efficiency" as a motivation. This is is--how do I put this?--a wronger than wrong version of not even wrong.

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One option is to get one of those big name companies to write a report on how much that change cost to the economy due equipment that had to be written off, downtime, etc.

Doesn't have to accurate, just impressive. And then maybe next time, circulate the report just before the decision has to be taken.

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