At last: Regulations.gov website makes it easy to track the millions of pages of edicts levied upon us by our federal overlords

It's about time the federal government gave us Regulations.gov, a helpful Internet portal that indexes the hundreds of thousands of pages of laws, regulations, and dictates that we're expected to know.

Suffice it to say that Regulations.gov uses a powerful, clustered set of web, application, database and storage servers that require enough electricity to power all three of Al Gore's mansions.

Thankfully, this new portal makes it straightforward to find out that:

• Tomatoes are governed by 7,789 existing and proposed regulatory documents.
• Window cleaning is regulated by 5,579 documents.
• Light bulbs, by 4,038 documents.
• Dry peas, by 1,775 documents.
• Lint filters, by 439 documents.
• Home gardens, by 436 documents.
• Lemonade, by 175 documents.

Give it a try and let us know in the comments what you find.

Word has it that Regulations.gov tried to add a Twitter feed, but all of the Obama administration's new bureaucracies were producing so many new regs that it melted Twitter down.


Related: A Child's First Book of Government Regulations.


Hat tip: Brad.