….And Then They Came For My TV
And I moved the fark out of California
Power-hungry TVs will be banned from store shelves in California after state regulators adopted a first-in-the nation mandate to lower electricity demand.
On a unanimous vote, the California Energy Commission on Wednesday required all new televisions up to 58 inches to be more energy efficient beginning in 2011. The requirement will be tougher in 2013, and only a quarter of all TVs on the market currently meet that standard.
And then I found out that Los Federales did the same thing.
There will be three consequences of the Nannyfornia law. 1st, the costs will skyrocket for those that meet the standards. 2nd, people will go out of state, or even down to Mexico, to purchase their TV’s. 3rd, there will be fewer choices. I witnessed something similar first hand in NJ back in the day when they jacked the taxes on automobiles. So, people went to Pa., NY, and Delaware to purchase. Cars in NJ were on short supply. Dealers were going out of business. NJ repealed those taxes quickly, though. Something like this will never go away.
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Posted by William Teach on November 18, 2009 6:09 pm
» Filed Under Anti-Capitalism, Communism, Energy, Fox News, Global Warming, Government tyranny, Nanny State, News, State Government, Totalitarianism
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Actually, this is just flat out wrong. The large flat screens that suck up the most juice are plasma televisions, which are, with current manufacturing techniques, also the most expensive. LCDs, the cheapest, are relative energy misers.
There are image quality issues – plasmas are considered to generally have a higher quality picture, with deeper blacks (although LCDs have their own benefits). Europe has had similar energy efficiency guidelines for several years, and I don’t think the preferences of some home theater buffs has cause mass chaos.
It’s in our national interest to move to energy conservation. We have fuel economy standards that in the late 70s through the 80s notably spurred innovation in the automotive sector, making our fleet more fuel efficient. The only reason to suggest we can’t do that today is if you don’t believe in our country’s ability to innovate.
I sure care when the power goes out in my house, but hell, if it means that my TV has to be more energy efficient in order to conserve much needed energy, especially during summer months, than I’m packing my bags and moving out of this nanny state! I can generate my own electricity just fine anyway, I’ll move to a state with a lot of running water, which will certainly be able sustain my electricity generating water mill. Probably can’t do that in California either, due to all of those pesky water regulations spurred by water shortages… Damn state just can’t keep it’s hands off my freedoms!