We know you want your big screen TV

• By: rubif
• On: 11/19/2009 17:14:11
• In: Stop whining already!
• Comments: 0

By know you all know that California wants to ban big screen TVs that don't meet certain energy efficiency standards beginning in 2011.  They estimate an energy savings of 33% once this goes into effect.  Another set of standards goes into effect in 2013 and is supposed to save 49% in energy costs.

So what's wrong with that??  To hear the howls this proposal has provoked, you'd think that they were taking the NFL off the air.  C'mon people.  Stop overreacting.  All this proposal is doing is forcing the TV manufacturers to make their products more energy efficient. 

It's not like this is the first time appliances needed to become more efficient.  Back in the "70s the government mandated more energy friendly refrigerators and other appliances.  Now you have the Energy Star ratings that many consumers rely on when they go shopping.  And who (other than the car  and oil industries) is objecting to the regulation of MPG standards for cars?

California is on the right track.  It won't be long before other states follow suit.