Posted on 10/16/2009 1:05:47 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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.
By Tom Leonard in New York Published: 8:38PM BST 16 Oct 2009
Arnold Schwarzenegger, the state's governor, has supported controversial proposals by the California's energy commission to impose strict energy consumption limits on TVs with screens that are more than 40 inches wide.
The commission claims that California's estimated 35 million televisions and related gadgets account for about 10 per cent of household energy consumption in the state.
Experts say that the large LCD or plasma screen sets can use three times as much power as traditional models.
Some TV manufacturers are fighting the plan but have reportedly said little to sway the commission, which could vote on it within weeks.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Well then. I am happy we got our 60 inch plasma and ensuing 42 inch, and 35 inch for the other rooms then. :-D.
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.
And the real point?
Disconnect people.
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.”
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?
Hardly. Spoiled-brat liberals can't see beyond their own noses. They think everyone else needs to do the sacrificing, not them.
pSSST....hey buddy wanna but a 52 incher ???
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....
Not sure what this means. How would a ban reduce the state's energy bill?
-PJ
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.
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