Posted on 10/16/2009 12:32:57 PM PDT by Marty62
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
State of California: “Where’s my nanny!!”
I can see it now, bootlegging big screens from outside Cali for major profits.
When was it we became a country of can’t rather than a country that can or will develop the resources so it can.
People will simply shop for this stuff outside of California. Nevada and Oregon should see a boost.
Just another example of government indecision. Didn’t we all have to buy HD TV’s last year? So now they are banned?
Unbelievable ....
Primm, NV could become the flat-screen capitol of the world.
Yeah, because we all know that the plasma TV and their ~600 Watt power demand are the source for all of California’s power outtage problems - it can’t be the hot tubs, the in ground pools, the AC units, the number of lights used for decorative rather than illumination, the fountains running 24/7, or any other unnecessary luxury.
But, when the common man can afford something that only the ‘classes’ should be able to enjoy - well, then something has to be done about that.
Wow all those Rich Lefties are going to be forced to walk the walk. No more BS commercials etc. Next CA will ban Stretch Limo’s. The HORROR...the HORROR!
This is the biggest joke yet perpetrated by the freedom-destroying environazis. Here’s a table of the so called power guzzling TVs. It basically amounts to the equivalent of one to two light bulbs - less than 10cents a day!!!!
http://reviews.cnet.com/green-tech/tv-consumption-chart/
I think it would be a capital. A capitol is the government building in the capital. Or it might be “shop at the flat screen capitol in the world flat screen capital.”
“Representatives of some TV makers, including top-seller Vizio Inc. of Irvine, said they would have little trouble complying with tighter state standards without substantially increasing prices.”
This particular legislation looks like a non-event to me, because improving technology will make it fairly easy for manufacturers to meet these regulations. But the new regulations are unnecessary because consumers will inevitably buy the TVs that use less power anyway. So these regulations are a typical liberal response to a nonexistent problem. These proposed regulations would just add more legal compliance costs to manufacturers, which lowers their return on investment and their incentive to expand and hire more employees.
And in the winter, the heat will be a boon not a bane.
Target in particular I get it, perhaps because it's relatively quite there so perhaps you become more sensitive to it.
It's heat, yes,sort of, but something more seems to going on as well, can't put my finger on it, but I've always wondered.
I’m waiting for the Hollyweird lefties to start screaming when the TV Police start breaking down the doors to their ESTATES to confiscate those ILLEGAL Boob tubes.
The majority of people in CA who keep voting for morons like this fully deserve to lose their TVs.
Kind of like what happens in NH when Mass. raises the cigarette taxes. Traffic jams on Rt’s 3, 93, 28 and 95.
Ok now...dial back the meds a little..LOL
Not too many folks look at the boiler plate on a TV when choosing it. They just want one that shows a good picture and at a reasonable price. If the industry goes like the car makers and there are California and Federal models, people will choose the Federal ones for the brighter picture and California will be isolated in its suffering.
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