"Tonight, on The Big Bang Theory..."
Posted on 11/18/2009 9:41:14 PM PST by GreaterSwiss
On a unanimous vote, the California Energy Commission on Wednesday required all new televisions up to 58 inches to be more energy efficient beginning in 2011. The requirement will be tougher in 2013, and only a quarter of all TVs on the market currently meet that standard.....
Industry representatives have said the standards would force manufacturers to make televisions that have poorer picture quality and fewer features than those sold elsewhere in the U.S.....
Some manufacturers say implementing a power standard will cripple innovation, limit consumer choice and harm California retailers because consumers could simply buy TVs out of state or order them online.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Loving watching California collapse. Just loving it!
Loving watching California collapse. Just loving it!
Now we’re so screwed and without HDTV.
This will only hurt the less wealthy. Right now the LED backlit LCD provides as good as or better picture than the CFL backlit LCD TV and meets the 2013 standards right now or about the same amount as a better quality LCD. What will disappear are the $599 with good quality pictures.
The CRAZIES have taken over KALIFORNIA!
"Tonight, on The Big Bang Theory..."
And who buys those large TVs? Hollywood hypocrites and elitists.
Having a bunch of Stalinist hippies running your state really does suck. I don’t recommend it. On the bright side, though, I bet the sales on the current stock of TVs will be even better now.
The usual endless jobs destruction from the California democrat party.
The TV business will go Internet.
There are laws prohibiting the purchase of many handguns from out of state. There is little to stop the tyrants in Kalifornia from similarly outlawing the sales of some TVs.
You could save more energy by shutting off all the air conditioners for one day.
If californians want to cut energy usage, they could make everyone in the state fill in their pools, and get rid of hot tubs...They could use the water to save some salmon, herring and anchovies.
Better yet, why don’t they have a master control switch on each teevee in CA. Once you reach the govt. determined power usage for the day, the govt. turns it off. It seems like a perfect CA solution to a CA globull warming fear. And the masses get to watch Oprah with good picture quality.
Join the website http://suspendab32.org and sign up. Tell the politicians of Sacramento we are fed up with bs.
And I think an aspiring businessman needs to make a chain of electronics stores in Primm NV and Flagstaff AZ with the stuff forbidden for sale in California, Forbidden Fruit Electronics.
So they’re gonna raid every house looking for bootleg TV’s? Not everybody owns a handgun or wants one, but everybody wants a good TV. There’ll be riots in the streets.
We have a 21 Billion Dollar Deficit and the idiots in Sacramento want to tell people what TV they can buy?
This is the next thing after the ridiculous smog rules that California foisted upon the rest of the Nation after The One got elected. It's only downhill from here.
And turn the Agricultural Inspection Stations at the borders into Television Contraband Inspection Stations.
“TVs larger than 58 inches would not be covered under the rule, a concession to independent retailers that sell high-end home-theater TVs. Those sets account for no more than 3 percent of the market.”
Nothing to see here, they are looking out for the little guy...and also, as you say, Hollywood elitists who won’t have to be inconvenienced by having to call in people from out of state. Glad to see that they’ve got this crisis situation under control, so they can go back to the more mundane problems like being 25 BILLION DOLLARS IN THE RED NEXT YEAR.
Great news for UPS and trucking companies, though. Until they have a “turn in your neighbor” policy and/or municipal thermal imaging vans to check on TV power consumption. You don’t think it can happen? Ha.
I really despise the place...they can do whatever they want, but the state is a bad influence on the rest of the country in more ways than I can count.
Probably more like 20 minutes.
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