[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I thought the regulation prevented the homeowner from deviating more than +/- 4 degrees from a temperature the state preferred during a "crisis."

[maine-iac7]

The government decides what kind of toilet we have - regardless of where we live: on city water or well water, like me, in an area with 'bog-high' water table level.

CFL light bulbs mandated by 2012.

Gov't thermostats.

Next?

I don't think even Socialist countries have this much intrusion into the private homes.

And it's first and foremost about control.

Take the CFL bulbs, for example. The mega-mansions, like Gores 26,000 sq ft place, with lighted swimming pool, pool house and guest house probably takes a few more light bulbs that my little 1,000 sq ft place. But that's okay - besides, he can afford to buy carbon credits so can burn any kind of lights he wants.

Folks, it may be too late to wake up and realize the water is close to boiling...time to jump for our lives.

I worries me to distraction about what kind of a controlled society my children and grandchildren are going to live in.

I'm trying to think of any society in the past where a person couldn't retreat into the sanctity of their home - even were it a hut - and at least be free there of government mandated light/heat/toilet and what next?

This movement is Socialism/Communism on steroids...

(and space heaters/wood stoves will be banned. Believe it. They tried to ban wood stoves 25 years ago back when Carter deliberately drove up fuel prices and the folk in the northeast said, "Fine" and fixed up their chimneys and started burning wood again. They tried to outlaw it, but the stubborn New Englanders told 'em to take a hike.

Now, 25 years later - I fear we'd loose that battle.

What is equally frightening is that many people indoctrinated in our public schools in the past 30 years think these government mandates are just fine. They haven't a clue what the end result is going to be. They've been taught that rule comes FROM the gov't, not the other way around.

[Political Junkie Too]

SF Chronicle, 1/17/2007: State abandons plan to allow utilities to control home thermostats

-PJ

[Logical me]

the plans have been slightly altered to allow an individual to turn off the remote access device.

Better would be to turn off those bongo headed fools in Sacramento.

[maine-iac7]

And furthermore

I wish there were one, real, investigative reporter to look into the common denominator here: each mandate (low-flush toilets, CFL bulbs, mandated HDTV by this time next year, now the scheme for gov't reg thermostats) is tied to a product that will be made and everyone in every house in the country will be forced to buy.

Sounds like all the earmarks of a great money-making scheme. Who, I wonder, is going to get in on the ground floor stocks of these products?

Wonder if Gore has new stocks? Wonder why he went, last year, to San Jose to meet with "Adventure Capitalists"

Follow the money. Someone, please follow the money....

[Lancey Howard]

Who couldn’t figure out to put an ice pack on the thermostat?