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 they’re 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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Heck the plasmas give off so much heat you can heat the room and watch TV. It's a two in one appliance, thats efficient, in the winter anyway.
You can even put a couple of hotdogs on the heat vent behind the screen and have ‘em ready after a sitcom or so.
I give it about six months.
I like the old CRT sets anyway. I use my 25-year-old Radiation King to heat my living room.
“Next they are going to tell you how many kids you can have.”
Oh please. Tell me you are being wise and not just catching on.
I am forever baffled at how many have yet to catch on as to how much misanthropes control policy.
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