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California Publishes Television Efficiency Standards For 2011
eldavojohn writes "It's been nine months since California announced their intentions to create new standards on energy-consuming televisions in their state, but yesterday the California Energy Commission finally released the first draft of the regulations. (More information straight from the horse's mouth.) If you live in another state, you may be unfamiliar with California's history of mandating power usage among anything from dishwashers to washing machines to other household appliances. This has also led to California pushing to ban incandescent light bulbs. From their FAQ on TV Efficiency Standards: 'The proposed standards have no effect on existing televisions. If approved, they would only apply to TVs sold in California after January 1, 2011. The first standard (Tier 1) would take effect January 1, 2011, and reduce energy consumption by average of 33 percent. The second measure (Tier 2) would take effect in 2013 and, in conjunction with Tier 1, reduce energy consumption by an average of 49 percent.' The Draft from December 2008 is available on their site (PDF, with a shorter 'Just the Facts' flier for those of you without two hours to burn). There's no indication whether that's what they're going with, or if it's been updated since then."
3(a) A local powerplant is closed, 100 jobs are lost.
3(b) PG&E receives so little revenue that it has to fire 25% of the line crews. Not only lobs are lost, the grid becomes more vulnerable to damage during winter since not enough people are available to maintain and repair the wires.
Why can't Ford do this?
American Unions. Enough said.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
Higher cost. Seriously...
You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer. - Winston Churchill
Dick Head.
Nobody was worried about losing jobs when manufacturing jobs were outsourced out of the country. Nobody was/is worried about losing jobs when major IT and support services are outsourced, or when lower wage workers are imported to do those jobs. Nobody seems really worried about all the auto workers who have lost their jobs.
But whenever it comes to energy, the issues are somehow all suddenly related to jobs. The right wing suddenly becomes part of the labor movement when it comes to energy workers. I've seen it multiple times.
As someone who lost his job and career in electronics manufacturing, and has been laid off from IT jobs, I really have to wonder what makes the energy workers so special that his job, career, and family are so much more important than mine.
One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces. - PF
FUCK OFF !
It's cunts like you that have done your best to destroy the constitution. The constitution is supposed to protect the people not the thieving assholes who prey upon them. Besides which, no-body is forced to buy a new TV ever, so how totalitarianism comes into it I don't know. This is not the consumers being dictated to, it is the producers, who enjoy the toleration and licence of the government. They can kick up fuck if they like. It has nothing to do with the consumers. Do you think an energy efficient TV displays pictures somehow worse than an energy hog TV ? Should we allow people to waste energy when the national interest is in conserving it ?
I would really hate to see you lot at war. I mean a real war, where you get short of supplies. You would be killing each other within weeks.
Do you live there ?
if not, fuck off and die. (You will if you keep that attitude up.)
Unfortunately there are many people that are either too ignorant or lazy to estimate life-time costs of running an appliance and/or they're total idiots and believe conservative talk show hosts rather than the overwhelming majority of climate scientists concerning global warming.
I listen to talk radio. And you want to know what I think? FUCK GLOBAL WARMING!!! Seriously. With unemployment rate as high as it is and the rampant corruption in politics, GW is the least of our problems.
Let the Earth burn for all I care. Just DO NOT TREAD ON ME fuckers!
Life is not for the lazy.