Environazis May Come for Your TV
Posted on January 6, 2009
You don’t have much that environmentalists wouldn’t like to take away from you — including your television set:
California regulators are preparing to curb the growing power gluttony of TV sets by drafting the nation’s first rules to require retailers to sell only the most energy-efficient televisions starting in 2011.
The consumer-electronics industry opposes the new regulations, expected to pass in mid-2009, and claims they could force some TVs to be removed from store shelves…
You don’t have to live in the Land of Fruits and Nuts to be worried:
Over the years, California has pioneered similar tough standards for appliances, home insulation and food-service equipment that eventually were adopted by the federal government…
If America follows California over the cliff into totalitarian moonbattery, the next Al Capone might make his fortune smuggling in appliances from free countries the way gangsters of the past smuggled whiskey.
On a tip from Kevin R. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.
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Damn, beat me too it, Van!
They can take my HD flat screen away from me at the point of gun!
Meanwhile you’ve fallen down the logical fallacy of the slippery slope.
It is very simple. Don’t vote for the ones who support these laws. Of course you first have to know who supports them. Still I have other priorities as a more expensive TV is a minor irritant.