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Sydal

Sydal

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Thoughts on this???

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Bigger may be better, but it is also about to be more regulated here in California when it comes to televisions.
The centerpiece of nearly every home will be under new state regulations in the coming years.
Power-hungry televisions will be banned from store shelves thanks to a first-in-the-nation mandate to lower electricity demand courtesy of state regulators.
Manufacturers say the rules will mean all flat screen televisions that are 55 inches or larger will not be available here in the Golden state.

The pending rules are all about being green.
The vote was unanimous. The California Energy Commission voted Wednesday to require all new televisions up to 58 inches to be more energy efficient beginning in 2011. The requirement will be even tougher in 2013.
Right now, only a quarter of TVs on the market currently meet the 2013 standard.

It's not like the TV-police will come into your home and take your television away. You just won't be able to buy the same products.
TVs larger than 58 inches, which account for no more than 3 percent of the market, would not be covered by the rule, a concession to independent retailers that sell high-end home-theater TVs.

Some manufacturers said implementing a power standard will cripple innovation, limit consumer choice and harm California retailers because consumers could simply buy TVs out of state or order them online.
Industry representatives also have said the standards would force manufacturers to make televisions that have poorer picture quality and fewer features than those sold elsewhere in the U.S.

Copyright Associated Press / NBC Bay Area First Published: Nov 18, 2009 12:23 PM PST
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dizzlemacem

dizzlemacem

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Congratulations California for digging a deeper hole!!! In the starting point in our states history, we were the place families traveled to to become rich, prosperous, entrepreneurs with gold on our water and innovation all around. And our state flourished because of it and became one of the single biggest economies because of it. Now this state drives those same ideals away from itself! Who the fuck cares about TV energy with the debt we're in?? Our recources could get far better use then this. Oh well....Hookers are legal in Nevada anyway......I may border jump here in a couple years....
 
MEXCOM

MEXCOM

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dizzlemacem said:
Congratulations California for digging a deeper hole!!! I swear at one point in our states history, we were the place families traveled to to become rich, prosperous, entrepreneurs with gold on our water and innovation all around.
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Yeah, it was called the 1860's.
 
dizzlemacem

dizzlemacem

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The point being California is destroying itself by going against what it was created on, and focusing it's energy on all the wrong problems....California has too much yellow tape to get through to do anything. That's why everything is so fucking expensive here, and why most small business move to grow.
 
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MEXCOM

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We're in an energy crunch. We have been for almost a decade now. Brownouts and blackouts all the time. I don't see how this is a bad move.

Just like exhaust emissions on cars. California had THE toughest regulations in the 90's and people thought it meant that cars wouldn't be able to be sold in California because the industry felt the stipulations were too strict. Almost 20 years later and we're moving into green and ecologically friendlier methods to drive a car's powertrain.

Progress isn't easy and although our last few governors have been douches I don't mind the state regulation energy consumption to a certain degree.
 
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