It has been some time since we here at the FlashReport have bestowed the infamous “Golden Trashcan” award.  As long time readers know, it takes a particularly onerous piece of legislation, or in this case a regulation, to “get the can” – but the dubious honor goes to the California Energy Commission’s (CEC) proposal to ban big screen televisions.

If you are like me, you may have heard a rumor about this, and dismissed it as being nonsensical.  That’s what I did after I read a brief item written about this by Orange County Register editorial writer Steven Greenhut back in March.  In his posting, Greenhut cited a statistic that under the proposal, as many as 25% of big screen televisions today would no longer be able to be on the market.  In fact, if you are looking to get a truly big screen – over 60” – think again.  All (yes, 100%) of current plasma televisions over 60” would be banned by this regulation.

I figured that this proposal, like that California Air Resources Board Report that talked about banning black cars, would be rolled up and put into a file cabinet somewhere – a bad idea conceived by some government eco-bureaucrat that would never fly in the real world…

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog Posts.