"Not invented here!
We didn't think of it. Back in your box." Lunacy.

More to the point, it would remove the need for the people that ignored him to keep issuing reports on energy inefficiency. Even when something is to be done, it gets bloated out of recognition: a colleague of mine has spent months on a re-lighting proposal for a massive warehouse near Daventry that would yield similar savings, but now the client's got all the working-out, they're putting it out to tender, when they know what it will cost.
(Good old boy just like yer grandma!, Sat 25 Feb 2012, 22:27, Reply)