Schwarzenegger set to ban big screen TVs over 40 inches in California

[WClint]

What the hell. Arnold is scum.



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Big screen plasma televisions are to be banned in California because they use too much energy.

In a world first, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has given his backing to the crackdown on sets more than 40 inches wide.

These liquid crystal display and plasma high definition sets can use as much as three times the power of smaller cathode ray models.
LiveLeak.com - Schwarzenegger set to ban big screen TVs over 40 inches in California (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=532_1255645242)

[Vessol]

WTH, how am I supposed to see all of Arnold's gloriousness now when I watch Terminator?

[torchbearer]

that sounds like a great idea.
Property values will drop as people flee the Socialist Soviet Republic of California.

[Reason]

WTB links/sources and wtf is with the video that doesn't do anything?

[angelatc]

So the sale of big TVs will go waaaay up just over the borders.

[WClint]

WTB links/sources and wtf is with the video that doesn't do anything?

Its a liveleak link and for some reason does that (not even sure how). You have to double click it.

[1836er]

... ah... maybe this will finally drive the folks in la la land to the pitchforks

[torchbearer]

... ah... maybe this will finally drive the folks in la la land to the pitchforks

cut off their cable, and its a done deal. revolution by day break.

[emazur]

Here's a story from April if anyone's interested:
http://american.com/archive/2009/april-2009/who-should-decide-the-size-of-your-tv

[Brian4Liberty]

Arnold is obviously going to change his Party affiliation to Democrat...

[jack555]

misleading title, did you even read the article you posted?




Lying will not help our cause it just makes you look ignorant.

[Reason]

misleading title, did you even read the article you posted?




Lying will not help our cause it just makes you look ignorant.

wtf are you talking about?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1220664/California-set-ban-energy-guzzling-big-screen-TVs.html

Schwarzenegger set to ban 'energy-guzzling' big screen TVs in California



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Last updated at 2:23 AM on 16th October 2009


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Big screen plasma televisions are to be banned in California because they use too much energy.

In a world first, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has given his backing to the crackdown on sets more than 40 inches wide.

These liquid crystal display and plasma high definition sets can use as much as three times the power of smaller cathode ray models.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/10/15/article-1220664-03E151C80000044D-303_468x315.jpg Energy guzzlers: A consumer looks at flat-screen televisions in a store (file photo). California is set to ban big screen TVs in a move applauded by environmentalists

Experts say the ban will reduce the state's rocketing electricity bill by £5billion over the next decade.
This is the equivalent of about £20 a set per year. Environmentalists have applauded the move by the California Energy Commission, but manufacturers claim consumers will be hit in the pocket as they rush to switch sets.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/10/15/article-1220664-06D3585D000005DC-195_233x339.jpg The move is being backed by California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

About a quarter of televisions currently available will have to be pulled from the shops, according to Doug Johnson of the Consumer Electronics Association.

'Voluntary efforts are succeeding without regulations,' he said.
Televisions account for about 10 per cent of residential energy use in California, the state with the highest population in the U.S., driven largely by the surge in sales of large flat screens.

The bigger the set, the more energy they use.

A vote to confirm the proposal could come as soon as November 4.

Sets with screens of up to 58 inches would have until the start of 2011 to comply with a minimum efficiency standard, with more stringent rules being introduced two years later.

However, state regulators are still debating what standards should apply to televisions with screens bigger than 58 inches.

Energy Commission spokesman Aaron McLear said Governor Schwarzenegger had given his support to the scheme.

Commissioner Julia Levin, who is behind the push for new regulations, said: 'We would not propose TV efficiency standards if we thought there was any evidence in the record that they will hurt the economy.

'This will actually save consumers money,' she added.

Manufacturers claim that hundreds of the biggest selling LCD models on the market already comply with the tough new standards.

They say they are quickly coming up with ways of slashing power use through new technology and materials, making even 50-inch models more economical to use.

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[tmosley]

So what, if you live in California, the state pays your electricity bill? If not, then WTF do they care?

Notice that they are banning them based on size rather than energy efficiency. They could use the same reasoning to ban almost anything.

Remember how they forced the switch to digital? You know, the switch that forces millions of people to go buy new TVs? Yeah, I guess they shouldn't have done that.

[Vessol]

Arnold is obviously going to change his Party affiliation to Democrat...

Most Democrats and most Republicans are exactly the same.

Little difference between the two at all.

[Reason]

So what, if you live in California, the state pays your electricity bill? If not, then WTF do they care?

Notice that they are banning them based on size rather than energy efficiency. They could use the same reasoning to ban almost anything.

Remember how they forced the switch to digital? You know, the switch that forces millions of people to go buy new TVs? Yeah, I guess they shouldn't have done that.

O.o

I don't know of any way to get the state to pay your electricity bill...

apx 100 bucks a month during summer months here in my new apt. :(

(San Diego, CA)

[BenIsForRon]

What a fucking idiot. He needs to get his own fossil-fuel-guzzling house in order before he bans a TV set!

[AJ Antimony]

Sounds like typical anti-every-form-of-business California

[james1906]

Hopefully TMZ will catch Maria Shriver plopping her ass in front of a big screen.

[ClayTrainor]

Sounds like a good law to make people aware of how retarded government is getting.

[Danke]

Will the globe get cooler with this legislation?

[AdamT]

cut off their cable, and its a done deal. revolution by day break.

No doubt about it. This would the next shot heard 'round the world. Ha ha people would lose it if their propaganda feed was cut off.....sad but true.

Funny how CA for awhile there was leading all these new initiatives that other states would follow blindly. Now they're so in the hole. I hope states watching CA's implosion realize finally they are not a state to be imitated - but a shining example of what not to do.

[squarepusher]

w t f


Hopefully TMZ will catch Maria Shriver plopping her ass in front of a big screen.

yes

Sounds like a good law to make people aware of how retarded government is getting.

and yes

[JeNNiF00F00]

....Yet they can grow their weed with lights that are major energy hogs?