Got mighty big hands
Posted on 09/18/2009 10:34:36 AM PDT by gubamyster
Reporting from Sacramento - Concerned that the growing popularity of big-screen televisions could make it harder for California to keep pace with electricity demand, state energy regulators are poised to crack down on energy-guzzling sets despite opposition from a powerful electronics trade group.
The first-in-the-nation TV efficiency standards would require electronics retailers to sell only energy-sipping models starting in 2011. Even tougher efficiency criteria would follow in 2013.
The California Energy Commission is slated to unveil the new standards today, followed by a 45-day public comment period. The commission is expected to approve the measure in early November.
The rules, which took more than a year to develop, are designed to shave $8.1 billion off Californians' electricity bills over a 10-year-period. That works out to $30 per set per year, according to commission officials.
It will also help California utilities head off the need to build more power plants just so residents can watch "American Idol" and other shows. TVs already account for 10% of residential energy use in California, driven largely by surging demand for large-screen TVs. Strict state mandates for cutting greenhouse gas emissions are further pressuring officials to act.
"Increased efficiency is the most cost-effective way of meeting our renewable-energy goals," commission Chairwoman Karen Douglas said.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Ugh, this state is run by people who are probably legally retarded.”
Amuse yourself and prove your point at the same time— do watch the California Legislature in Sacramento live & in person.
I see a big market for gas TV’s and microwaves!
Anyone with the money to buy a big screen TV has the money to leave that miserable, fascist state.
Rules like this are like a magic wand, turning Liberals into Conservatives with a swish and a flick.
"BUILD A POWER PLANT!!"
Can't do that cuz Al Gore tells us if we build another power plant the temperature will raise 1 billionth of a degree in the next 1000 years which will kill all the polar bears. So please send all you money to ALGOREWILLSAVETHEPLANET.com so he can become richer and save us all from ourselves!
Got mighty big hands
Probably be like watching a monkey sh*t fight...
Funny, a 52” LCD tv uses FAR, FAR less energy than a 20” tube tv. These people are complete and UTTER morons! What are they being paid to do again?
Oh yeah...shut off the water supply to farmers! That’s another smart move. Government is out of gone control!
I swear I will make a video called “government gone wild”!
Incredible.
That being said we cannot generate power for tv how the heck we suppose to power all these new electric cars?
Yeah, one that burns smelt would be good.
thats the most important movie of 1986
Sure, no problem...that is, after you get environmental impact studies done and then receive permits from the EPA, ATF and PUC.
Thank you, comrade.
I hope they try this, I cant think of another item that if taken from them would tick off the average not paying attention American more than their TV.
PLEASE do this libs. So we can take back California.
On no!...that will never happen!...You have to have a place to see all the crap whack left movies that Hollywierd makes!
Absolutely.
Banning big screen TV sets "forces" people to go to movie theaters and buy popcorn laced with mind altering drugs that make Nancy Pelosi and Helen Thomas appear sane and beautiful.
Powerful stuff indeed!
Make distilled spirits? Without a license?
Surely you jest!
I can give up cooking..........
My shotgun has rules against Home Owners Associations.
Wail, nex’ the’ll be makin’ rules fer them heaters, aar condictioners, an’ swimmin’ pewl flitters and pumps. Mos’ people cain’t even far up the ol’ wood stove, noew!
Wer gonna freez’n swet’n keep livin’ hear ‘cause its jus’ a wunnerful place to liv.
Hmm.
Reduce the number people using power. You mean, like, ILLEGALS ?
Build more power plants ? Causing heart attacks amongst greenies and tree-huggers ? (and reduces power users even more. . )
Makes sense. Logical even.
But all of that is . . . Illegal in California (sigh)
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