Posted: 12/17/2016
For too many years it has been complacently accepted that California can quasi impose any of its many strict regulations and standards on the rest of the country. Not least because manufacturers would produce goods according to strictest state regulations in the country and sell it to consumers in the whole country. This has been disturbing for decades!
This needs to stop! Hopefully, the new President Trump will address this situation appropriately!
Just read California to Regulate Energy Use of Desktop Computers and Monitors, which reminded me of this subject. To cite from this article (emphasis added):
- “The rules, passed by the agency, the California Energy Commission, are the country’s first attempt to regulate the energy use of desktop computers and represent another step in the state’s efforts to drastically lower its greenhouse gas emissions to address climate change.”
- “The new standards, some parts of which go into effect Jan. 1, 2018, would ultimately reduce carbon dioxide emissions in California by an estimated 730,000 tons, less than 1 percent of total statewide emissions, and save consumers about $370 million on electric bills annually, based on the most recent emissions data. ”
Such blatant socialist central planning is unconstitutional and should not be tolerated in the U.S.! One size fits all solutions for single, narrowly-focused, fantasized, and out of proportion problems are the preoccupations of socialists and dictators!
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