Here’s the latest abomination from the folks who put the “mental” in environmentalism. William Teach at Pirate’s Cove writes:
….And Then They Came For My TV
And I moved the fark out of California
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. [What about power-hungry politicians? When will they be banned? -ETR]
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.
And then I found out that Los Federales did the same thing. And I was sad.
There will be three consequences of the Nannyfornia law. 1st, the costs will skyrocket for those that meet the standards. 2nd, people will go out of state, or even down to Mexico, to purchase their TV’s. 3rd, there will be fewer choices. I witnessed something similar first hand in NJ back in the day when they jacked the taxes on automobiles. So, people went to Pa., NY, and Delaware to purchase. Cars in NJ were on short supply. Dealers were going out of business. NJ repealed those taxes quickly, though. Something like this will never go away.
So in various (blue) states throughout the country, the rabid extremist left has succeeded in banning transfats, smoking indoors and in some areas even outdoors, and now banned certain TV’s. Oh yeah, it’s now against federal law not to utter “hate speech,” i.e., whatever speech some left-wing political hack disagrees with.
But remember, it’s the right that’s fascistic and imposes its values on you. Give me an effing break.
You know how pathetic it is that I’m not even 40 but I can still say to my kids “When I was your age this was a free country.”?
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