This law is a scam.
Regulating the size of a T.V. isn't even a start.
#15 | Posted by bogey1355
"the state of California agreed today to enact strict regulations on the amount of power televisions can consume..."
Where in this statement is there any mention of regulating the size of the TV?
"The state had been concerned that 10 percent of a home's energy use is typically devoted to the TV and its related equipment, and that percentage has been increasing as consumers gain access to larger and larger (and cheaper and cheaper) televisions, which command an ever-increasing hunger for power."
The obvious result is that because a unit is larger, it demands more power. Add on all the ancillary equipment that everybody seems to require so they can have the full sensurround experience watching the "reality" shows.
Your suggestions:
"-Encouraging employers to have more of their employees work from home thus saving fuel for transit and for heating, cooling and lighting their working area.
-Build a few Nuclear Power plants and get rid of the old fossil fuel plants
-Tie energy consumption to income taxes (talk about taxing the rich)
-Tack on an energy tax for all the B.S. websites with all their mega-servers sucking up tons of energy for things like who's sleeping with who in Hollywood."
Some are workable. Some are not.
Nuke plants are hugely expensive.
Working from home is only feasible in a small amount of jobs.
An energy tax on "B.S. websites with all their mega-servers" will be passed on to the users of these websites somehow.
Which brings it all back around to high energy consuming devices, such as large format plasma TVs.
The consumers themselves, for the most part, are not willing to take steps to reduce. The consumer makes the choice of purchasing the 54-inch energy hog plasma set (how big a set does one really need?) without considering the long-term costs and consequences. Like the consumer who commutes 50 miles to work everyday in a Chevy Avalanche by him/herself.
More people, more need for entertainment, more energy consumption, more bitching about how the power industry can't keep up with increased demand, but when the taxes are levied and the energy costs rise because of the former, the people bitch and whine more, but still want more.
We are energy pigs in the US. We consume more than anybody. We entertain ourselves through the lavish application of energy more than anybody else. And we get all indignant when it is pointed out to us what a bunch of resource hogs we are.
A breaking point is coming...
Oink oink!
