Danny Ghorbani, President of the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), suggests that GIGO is at play in a recently announced and controversial Department of Energy (DOE) policy effort.

“Computer scientists and programmers have a saying – “garbage in, garbage out.” In other words, if a program is based on faulty, invalid data, the output from the program will be equally invalid.” Ghorbani said in an email to MHProNews, published in the Journal.

MHARR’s president elaborated by saying that “…the same wisdom holds true in other fields, including government regulation. If you start with a bad, inaccurate, disingenuous, or faulty premise in the governing law, the resulting policies and regulations will likely be misguided, counter-productive and potentially harmful to both regulated parties and society at large.”

MHARR’s Vice President, M Mark Weiss, MHI and Don Westphal are among those who have sounded off on the various aspects of this hotly contested issue. The article linked here features each of those three positions in their entirety. ##

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