Will they have border inspections for Big Screens like they have for fruits/vegetables (California Border Protection Stations (BPS))? 
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.
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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.
I’m always heartened to learn the spelling police are on their game.
We should get about 1 million adults to go to Sacramento, dawn diapers, suck our thumbs, and stand out side the capital building demanding the state take over every aspect of our lives, in sarcasm.
The irony of it would be lost on many, but the visual would be something the media couldn’t help but cover, and the message would be so clear as to make the leftists absolutely furious.
White baby bonnets
White diapers
Bare Feet
Sucking thumbs
Big lollipops with different government programs printed on the side exposed to the cameras
Baby bottles with big government programs on them as well
On the fringe people could hand out fliers that say something like...
Please urge the state government to pass more gun control laws in addition to the thousands already on the books
Please urge the state to pass more seat belt laws
Please urge the state to pass more cell phone laws
Please urge the state to let prisoners go free
Please urge the state to raise our taxes
Please urge the state to...
Man this is fertile ground...
I can see it now. If this legislation passes, the wacko environmentalists will want to set up CHP checkpoints on I-40 and I-15 to stop all motorists and search for bootlegged big-screen TVs...lol. This legislation is totally unnecessary because the power consumption of TVs (and computers, appliances, etc.) is continually declining as technology improves.
“And in the winter, the heat will be a boon not a bane.”
Exactly.
Yeah and we banned incandescent light bulbs before anyone else.
We are soooo screwed
Just remember that capital punishment is never carried out in a capitol.
What’s more, we hear how this nation cannot have these things (or AC) anymore because they are “bad” for the environment and cause global climate change. Except now the rest of the world is finanlly ramping up to using cars (China and India) and rather than starting with the new “greener” technologies, they are using the same technologies that we can no longer use (got to get off of oil).
It isn’t about the environment or even scarcity of resources. The damned socialists have said for 40 years that “we consume too much of the world’s resources”, we have to do without.
We will have crappy low flow toilet, weak showerheads, no more control of our thermostats, and whatever size tv the government mandates.
It is unAmerican.
OK sooooo...
It’s a way of making a CA based company richer, by forcing eveyone to buy a NEW TV to comply with the STATE REGS. Ah yes, bend over everyone. Ca is geting ready to...... you fill in the blanks.
Will they have border inspections for Big Screens like they have for fruits/vegetables (California Border Protection Stations (BPS))?
Actually, once it's illegal to buy them in-state the neighboring states will begin to ask for an ID to make sure they aren't violating some other law. At least that's what happened when buying oil-based paints was virtually banned several years ago.
Keep buying bigger and bigger screens.
They are "the ruling class".
"Rules" don't apply to them.
From trendsetter .. to laughingstock
sigh
I remember reading last year (or earlier this year) that the MA state legislature was exploring ways to levy sales tax on items purchases made by MA residents in NH. How they were going to do that, was anyone's guess. But, I don't put anything past liberals when collecting taxes.
Did you see that story and do you know if it actually went anyplace?
Another thing to consider, California has a billion dollar industry in motion pictures. They want to see people GO to the movies and not watch them at home.
Eradicating home theaters is one way to accomplish this goal.
I did that to may stores in the late 70’s and 80’s. Profit ya know. Started it to save energy costs so I could keep my employees.
Won’t happen.
The elitists will inherently have a different set of rules.
So does that mean no more GIANT TV at the football stadium?
That’s fine when you choose it.
That’s not so fine when you force everybody else to choose it.
That’s probably true, but the Japanese, Taiwanese, and Korean companies that make most TVs seem to be dedicated to improving their products in all ways and reducing power consumption even if consumers don’t demand it right now. Power consumption of consumer electronics keeps declining because these Asian companies think years ahead and they know improved energy efficiency is the right thing to do for their companies in the long run. So my conclusion is these regulations are a totally unnecessary response to a nonexistent problem.
There would be dodges, such as buying used units.
Fluroscent lights will prove to be the downfall of modern civilization—— too much mercury inside, too many high voltage and high pitched frequencies, too light in the way of full spectrum lighting.
Bleech. And if you want to use them VOLUNTARILY fine -——why insist that I have to?
You're right - summer comes and the pump for an in ground pool runs 8 to 10 hours a day. Hollywood big liberals aren't going to give up any perks - YOU can give up your TV...
HUMMM. I wonder how much energy a Movie Theatre uses.
Never mind...don’t want to give them any ideas.
These proposed regulations wouldn’t apply to TVs people already own and operate. They would only apply to new TVs, so nobody would be forced to buy a new TV.
Well there ARE theaters that save on power by using lower watt bulbs for their projectors making the screen darker than it should be.
Thanks for the right rear quarter view of the 1968 Camaro, my fav car.
No problem... the government will help you buy another converter to convert the HD signal from last year's converter back to a regular signal.
Obama’s healthcare plan doesn’t mandate that you drop private insurance but he says that within 20 years no one will have private coverage which is the goal.
Yep I agree. I don’t like to be FORCED to do anything.
Interestingly enough, I haven’t heard of movie projectors using any kind of fluorescent lamp technology. It’s always a big hot xenon or halogen lamp.
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