California considering banning giant TVs

www.telegraph.co.uk ^

[GOP Poet]

Well then. I am happy we got our 60 inch plasma and ensuing 42 inch, and 35 inch for the other rooms then. :-D.

[Patriotic1]

Exactly - it’s not the state’s soaring energy bill, it’s a total of the bills of people living in the state, paid for by the people. Ugh.

[Freddd]

And the real point?

Disconnect people.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The uptick in AZ, NV and Oregon HDTV sales will be shortlived, however, as California implements border control checkpoints next to agricultural station checkpoints. You will either be turned back at the border or have your TV confiscated.

Drug smugglers will begin having their mules bring large screen TVs.

Before the full-scale ban, they might first try out rationed TV allotments. Each household is permitted to buy one TV larger than 40 inches every decade. This will be the “public option.”

[IrishCatholic]

“Their constituents all have 50 inch and bigger! Mostly paid for with gov money (hand-outs) They’re messin’ with their base now.”

Well, we also pay for their housing, their power, their food, and in most cases, their booze and drugs. Why should they be upset? Think they would care about a ban they wouldn't follow in the first place?

[pray4liberty]

I’m sure this is just for the masses - do you actually think Pelosi or gollywood is going to go without?

Hardly. Spoiled-brat liberals can't see beyond their own noses. They think everyone else needs to do the sacrificing, not them.

[Robe]

pSSST....hey buddy wanna but a 52 incher ???

[libertarian27]

TV’s account for 10% of home energy use?
What about the other 90%?
I assume that’s next.....

Look for college cube refrigerators to be a hot seller in CA soon....

[Loyal Buckeye]

California considering banning giant TVs Electricity-guzzling giant-screen televisions are on the verge of being banned in California in an attempt to cut the state's soaring energy bill.

Not sure what this means. How would a ban reduce the state's energy bill?

[Political Junkie Too]

What's next? King-size deluxe washing machines? Jumbo refrigerators? Dishwashers with potscrubber modes? Why not just wait for the economy to drive the illegals back across the border, and watch the state's electricity consumption go back down. Water, too.

-PJ

[Oatka]

This would save me $2.50 per month on my energy bill? Well, I’d rather pay that $2.50 to have a screen I can actually see with these old eyes!

You may be on to something there - a new source of tax revenue. A "Telly Tax" similar to the UK, only this would relate to "saving the planet". That way the elites can have their big TVs and still feel good about it.