Posted on 10/15/2009 1:38:35 PM PDT by stockpirate
Reporting from Sacramento - The influential lobby group Consumer Electronics Assn. is fighting what appears to be a losing battle to dissuade California regulators from passing the nation's first ban on energy-hungry big-screen televisions.
On Tuesday, executives and consultants for the Arlington, Va., trade group asked members of the California Energy Commission to instead let consumers use their wallets to decide whether they want to buy the most energy-saving new models of liquid-crystal display and plasma high-definition TVs.
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No one allowed to have any fun in California, soon to be the law.
If you want change vote em out, otherwise...live with it.
Ping.
Last month there was an Arizona Conservative spoof satirizing this idea.
Within the month, it is floated as policy.
Pretty soon, The Onion will be taking dictation from Sacramento.
How about the daily power guzzling that is requitred to heat, cool and power the abysmally wasteful, bureaucratic behemoth in Sacramento?
I shouldn't laugh, but it is so much fun watching them get all huffy when they all jumped on the Green bandwagon and it carried them off the cliff.
Movie theaters use a lot of electricity. We need to ban them. MRI machines use a lot of energy, too. Ban ‘em. Restaurants do, too. Ban ‘em. Etc.
At least it will cut down on the number of loons able to post on lefty blogs.
Ang yet the mansions in Beverly Hills, Belair, Malibu, etc. can still keep all 20 rooms lit, use electric gates, elevators, electric fountains, etc.
So the Taliban are really just a group of concerned environmentalists after all.
Yup. Why else is Bambi cozying up to them and hanging our troops out to dry?
Hollyweird should be banned from making any movies or TV shows because the energy is all wasted and Polar bears are dieing :-(
Get used to it, people. You’ll live the way the leftist cranks tell you to live — or else.
Buy more ammo.
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Or Democract donor, government official, union rep, etc, etc, etc.
You need to remember that in a feudal society, there is a difference between lords and peasants.
No SERF is allowed to have any fun in California (and soon in the whole USA).
You know for a fact that the ruling class will still have their big screens.
What will all the movie stars and hiphop cribs do withoout their 1000 inch flat screens? Poor people - I feel your pain - yeah, right.
A glimpse of the future.
Serfs will not be allowed to have ANYTHING that the “elite” have.
Yeah and some Republicans as well......
I don’t have a big-screen TV. Can I keep my incandescent lights instead?
Within the month, it is floated as policy.
Other order. California first proposed this a month or two ago and Semmens just took it a few steps further.
If only there was some way that Californians could be forced to pay more for using more electricity and then they could decide it was worth it... no, wait, that's what the electric bill is.
I can see large TV stores opening up on the Nevada Border.
They will not be allowed to have them in their homes. And they will no doubt install the smart meter.
The finest HDTV panel maker on the market, Pioneer is being pushed out by Samsung.
I’m glad I got mine before Pioneer gets killed off.
Torch and pitchfork time!
This is what happens when you give reality-challenged academic leftists control of a society.
Plasma’s getting to be obsolete. They’re still ok, but local dimming LCD’s are the top of the line for the next 10+ years. The Samsung 8500 series out now is great for 2d, but I’d imagine after this one they’ll all be 3d compatible.
What’s this about a state banning some tv’s? What?
Its like we have central planning communists in power today, who while not able to call themselves central planning communists, still act that way to a T. Applies to -7obamacare just as well as these centrally planned TV decrees.
What about my pool pumps?
These suck up a lot more power than my wide screen and run a lot longer.
Opps....maybe I’ve said too much.
Uh....never mind.
The liquid crystal versions contain a bright inner lamp or lamps to illuminate the screen. Now suppose these could be solar illuminated by day, through a skylight and appropriate light transmissive ducting, with the lamps used only at night?
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Posted on 10/15/2009 5:14:23 AM PDT by combat_boots
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2362949/posts
I bet the real issue is energy gulping plasma displays vs energy sipping lcd displays.
They will probably ban plasma in favor of LCD.
I've watched my plasma for the last six years and still have those "oh my gosh what a beautiful display" moments.
My kids all have bought LCD's and they just don't compare in quality of display.
And for those that are going to say plasmas burn in, I say based on my display which still has no signs of any kind of burn in, that burn in is a myth foisted on the consumer by savvy LCD manufacturers.
You can have my 50” plasma when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
They really don’t want anyone to drive any type of car. The goal is to have one person working, tax all of his salary and redistribute it to the rest of us.
I think I’ll move to Reno Nevada and open an ammo store / tv store. They are going to clean up. These stoners in our Calif government have a critical case of HEAD UP ASS.
People in CA better wake up and soon, the socialists are taking over.
California should just ban electricity generation. The environment must be saved!
If you can see one with a good source, a Pioneer Kuro is known to have the best picture on the planet. Most showrooms have crummy sources.
LCD and most Plasmas have the same problem reproducing Black. Pioneer has lead the industry for years in displaying Black (Kuro means Black in Japanese). Plasmas DO burn a bit more power (mine’s about 270W) which is why CA is using this as an excuse to outlaw them.
Samsung is doing good things on keeping the cost down but they are close to capturing the entire computer monitor/TV market right now.
Just like all conservatives, I’d rather let us buy what we want rather than being told by Nancy Pelosi.
I’m still all out for the reintroduction of grizzly bears and wolves to CA.
It’s the green thing to do.
Imagine the carbon footprint that can be reduced just from all those granola-crunching libs who try to feed and pet the “pretty animals.”
“Average first-year savings from reduced electricity use would be an estimated $30 per set”
That is 1.5% of my average monthly electric bill.
Good job California!
This is a bit beyond socialism. Its become a theocracy. The religion = Environmentalism.
Throughout history, societies have used sumptuary laws for a variety of purposes. They attempted to regulate the balance of trade by limiting the market for expensive imported goods. They were also an easy way to identify social rank and privilege, and often were used for social discrimination. This frequently meant preventing commoners from imitating the appearance of aristocrats, and sometimes also to stigmatize disfavored groups. In the Late Middle Ages sumptuary laws were instituted as a way for the nobility to cap the conspicuous consumption of the prosperous bourgeoisie of medieval cities, and they continued to be used for these purposes well into the seventeenth century.[2]
They are really saving a bunch of money. NOT
Fascism.......
I think it's actually the other way around ... the stuff that comes out of Sacramento is less believable than what you read in the Onion, but unfortunately is more true.
“They’ll can take my 50-inch plasma HDTV when they pry it from my cold, dead eyeballs.”
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