British police, with their milder approach and heavier form-filling burden, will find these methods hard to copy.

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Since October, a team of Federal Agencies and Departments, led by DOE, has been working hard to refine methods for measuring energy performance and ways to communicate this information effectively to consumers.

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Others point to the alienation caused by the hard-line policing methods espoused by Mr Sarkozy.

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