Schwarzenegger to television makers: Go green or stay out of California »
Posted By Eagle_Eye 1 month, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
First it was the makers of gas-guzzling autos. Next, the Governator came down hard on coal-fired power plants. Now, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has multinational electronics makers in his executive crosshairs. His mission? To rid the Golden State of big, energy-hogging televisions that suck up so much juice in brown-out prone California.
As the Golden State goes, so might go the nation. With what is effectively the eighth-largest economy in the world, California policies can force compliance in consumer electronics manufacturing and drive a green energy agenda like no other state of the union.
Written by the California Energy Commission (CEC), the proposed California regulation could pass as early as Nov. 4, according to The Los Angeles Times. It would put in place a set of energy efficiency mandates for large-screen TVs that would effectively ban the current generation of plasma TVs with screens over 40 inches. The law would require a 33 percent improvement in energy efficiency for all TVs sold starting Jan. 1, 2011, and a whopping 50 percent improvement for sets sold starting Jan. 1, 2013.
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Leave Swarzenegger alone. He's just a gym monkey who made it big on steroids and our fascination with "action movies of the 80's."
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Some people say if Ferigno had been born with normal hearing we wouldn't even know about Swarzenneger.
California loves their movie stars. Now they have a 26 billion dollar debt. Joe Kennedy is probably turning in his grave. -
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