Posted on 03/23/2009 1:39:24 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
California has a rapidly-expanding budget shortfall, unemployment going above 10% for the first time since the early 1980s, and perhaps the worst business climate in the nation, excepting Michigan. How does the state plan to boost the economy, create jobs, and build consumer confidence? They want to ban plasma TVs because theyre not green enough:
In their continuing quest to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, state regulators have uncovered a new villain in the war on global warming : your big screen TV
Couch potatoes, beware.
The California Energy Commission is considering a proposal that would ban California retailers from selling all but the most energy-efficient televisions. Critics say the news standards could take 25 percent of televisions off the market most of them 40 inches or larger.
The larger the television, the more at risk it is of being banned unnecessarily in California, said Douglas Johnson, senior director of technology police for the Consumer Electronics Association.
Association officials say the standards are not only unnecessary because the federal government already regulates energy efficiency through the voluntary Energy Star program but also ill-timed. The last thing our economy needs now is products taken off the market, they say.
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“This ONE law will crush Pioneer and Panasonic and give a big windfall to Samsung.”
A chance for Pioneer and Panasonic to sue the state of CA and further the bleeding of public funds?
California is a large part of the reason we even have plasma and LCD TVs. They (and the EU) effectively banned CRTs because of the lead and other unPC materials in CRTs.
California - Finally a state that Louisiana can make fun of
Yep, this will be a business opportunity for places like Stateline, Nevada, the casino/shopping complex by Whiskey Pete’s on I-15 just across the Nevada state line, and across the Arizona border in Yuma. Those places will do land office business in these plasma TVs. These are big sellers nowadays.
I wonder how good liberals will feel when the plasma TV police ban their TV because of global warming?
Thanks for this! and bookmark.
is my Interocitor still ok in California?
And plasma is the better technology. Idiots.
Think of this as an opportunity.. We could start a Plasm CAP and Trade scheme and auction off Plasm credits to supplement the tax revenue.
We picked plasma over LCD because we have a lot of children viewing with us from different spots all over the room, and plasma looks great even from a severe angle.
Plasma is not so good in direct daylight; it is like a mirror. But we don’t watch movies in the daytime so it doesn’t matter.
If we ever decide to upgrade we’ll just get one in Oregon. That way we can avoid sales tax too.
You can usually choose between anti-glare and anti-reflective coating. I hope plasma doesn’t go out as an option because it wins in picture quality easy, and burn in and fading are non-issues now.
This ONE law will crush Pioneer and Panasonic and give a big windfall to Samsung.’
How many components have been created and manufactured in Kalifornia- especially in Silicon Valley???
Talk about b iting the hand that feeds you.
Lots of those companies would be glad to move to Nevada- where there is NO INCOME TAX.
I've never been to Earnest. Is that near Barstow?
Don't know about that, but I do know that the other day, the rain was coming down in Torrance.
Ed nails it here. I don't know why LCD is joining this crap, for computer monitors and desktop TVs they can't be beat.
They're going to cost $7000 and they've already been delayed for two years. I wouldn't hold my breath.
A little humor is what the doctor ordered today... and you gace it to me!!! I laughed at the imagery of them prying your cheese curled stained hands from your plasma TV!! Thanks for a good laugh, fellow freeper!
Sorry.. etch-a-sketches have been shown in numerous studies to cause one to be actually creative, and thereby, not pliable to the state’s policy of draw-speak.. therefore, they are banned as well!
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