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2009-11-19 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Calif. requires TVs to be more energy efficient

They can't fix the $21 billion dollar (and growing) hole in the state budget but by Gawd they can tell you what TV to buy.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - 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.

The California Energy Commission estimates that TVs account for about 10 percent of a home's electricity use. The concern is that the energy draw will rise by as much as 8 percent a year as consumers buy larger televisions, add more to their homes and watch them more often.

Commissioners say energy efficiency standards are the cheapest and easiest way to conserve electricity.

Posted by Steve White 2009-11-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Why don't California voters just tell their elected twerps to just go to hell and do something real about the collapse of the state?

Posted by 3dc 2009-11-19 00:11|| 2009-11-19 00:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Jus thtink what they could do if they raised taxes enough to balance the budget!

Posted by Bobby 2009-11-19 07:24|| 2009-11-19 07:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Imagine if you will, California politicians requiring TV's to.... "meet a standard."

Posted by Besoeker 2009-11-19 07:30|| 2009-11-19 07:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Think of how much energy they could save by going back to the old 8088 chip using 5 to 10 MHz rather then 2.33 GHz energy hogs in those millions of PC. Think of all those devices in government offices and schools. Yep, that's a savings. /sarc

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-11-19 08:02|| 2009-11-19 08:02|| Front Page Top

#5 The salary and benefits of just one California bureaucrat will pay for the power bill of at least 100 families. Make the proper mental connection then sever the correct rice bowl connection.

Posted by ed 2009-11-19 08:35|| 2009-11-19 08:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Just think how much energy will be saved by not 'educating' one illegal-alien.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-11-19 09:05|| 2009-11-19 09:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Cost of illegals to CA budget alone: ca. $20B.

So here's a deal: we return the stimulus -- which hasn't created a single productive private sector job in CA-- to the Feds, who use it to a) build the goddamned fence, already, and b) crack down on illegals' employers, and c) deport.

And watch that $20B annual albatross quickly disappear, and overall CA public school scores soar.

Posted by lex 2009-11-19 10:06|| 2009-11-19 10:06|| Front Page Top

#8 California elections are so crooked that, except in very unusual circumstances, the result is foreordained.

Posted by Iblis 2009-11-19 11:08|| 2009-11-19 11:08|| Front Page Top

#9 Its one thing to change the chemical composition of items such as spray glue or paint to meet a California only law, quite another to re-gear a piece of equipment such as a car or TV. If I were a TV manufacturer would I have a CA only line then the rest of the world? Where would that cost/benefit line cross? Then look at the potential CA consumer and realize that they either have already bought their TVs before the deadline then why bother?

What will be interesting is if they levy a fine on any non-complients of course needing to have regulators go building to building to inspect.

Wanna save energy? Shut down the entertainment industry. The energy used to light and cool studios, computers used for audio and editing, fancy offices for the execs, etc.

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-11-19 11:44|| 2009-11-19 11:44|| Front Page Top

#10 Just think how much energy will be saved by not 'educating' one illegal-alien.

Shhhhh!!! We're not allowed to talk like that here.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-11-19 11:54|| 2009-11-19 11:54|| Front Page Top

#11 If California wants to save energy, simply mandate rolling blackouts, they've done it before.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-11-19 11:55|| 2009-11-19 11:55|| Front Page Top

#12 Caliphornia's way of helping Nevada's sales tax revenue drought.

Posted by Albemarle Jelet1799 2009-11-19 14:01|| 2009-11-19 14:01|| Front Page Top

#13 I wonder where they pulled that 10% number from.

Posted by James">James 2009-11-19 21:45|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2009-11-19 21:45|| Front Page Top

#14 A certain below-the-belt oriface, James.

Oh - were you being rhetorical? ;-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-11-19 22:22|| 2009-11-19 22:22|| Front Page Top

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