California to ban large TV sets?

[Torrey Loomis]

My rant here:

http://silveradosys.blogspot.com/

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[Brandon Fraley]

discussed here: http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=28036

I still say that considering the ban is on energy inefficient sets, an added tax would be more appropriate than a ban. More tax revenue, assumed to be coming from the upper class, and still incentive for manufacturers to improve energy efficiency.

[Alexis Hanawalt]

This isn't a ban on large TVs. It's a ban on energy inefficient TVs. All of the "data" in that article is the assumptions of "critics" of the ban. I'm not a fan of bans on things, so I would think tax incentives towards energy efficiency would do the job just fine, but the basic notion here is that a large TV can be made with energy efficiency in mind... but some aren't, and the commission wants those ones off the market. Fine. It's like the energy star program. Not that big a deal.

EDIT: There's no citation for the bold texted "25 percent" and "40" and larger" parts of that article. And that's really the incendiary part.