Big Hollywood ｻ Blog Archive ｻ California To Ban TV: But Not For Good Reason (like there's nothing decent to watch)California seeks to control the few. Dark colored cars, and now - big-screen TVs.Why is it that many government agency names are oxymoronic? How much new water has the California Department of Water Resources delivered in the past couple of decades? How much energy has the federal Department of Energy or the California Energy Commission produced or encouraged?
It should come as no surprise that in 2009, an era when the L.A. Basin's air quality bureaucracy, the SCAQMD, wants to ban dark cars because they need more air conditioning in the summer, that the California Energy Commissariate is drafting an order to outlaw TVs. (Perhaps if our TVs had one state-approved channel they would relent.)
Extra power plants just don't seem to be on the agenda, do they? Of course not - they take decades to build and they're polluters. Same thing with offshore drilling - that was quietly taken off the table.
California used to be the golden land. Now, with increasing taxes and regulation it's turning into a land where only those who must live there will stay. Another 20 years - and the only ones left will be screaming for more government services, to be paid for by a sector that's tapped out and gone...
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