Big Brother to control your thermostat…
if you buy a new house in California.
Next year in California, state regulators are likely to have the emergency power to control individual thermostats, sending temperatures up or down through a radio-controlled device that will be required in new or substantially modified houses and buildings to manage electricity shortages.
The proposed rules are contained in a document circulated by the California Energy Commission, which for more than three decades has set state energy efficiency standards for home appliances, like water heaters, air conditioners and refrigerators.
The changes would allow utilities to adjust customers’ preset temperatures when the price of electricity is soaring. Customers could override the utilities’ suggested temperatures. But in emergencies, the utilities could override customers’ wishes.
Just one more step…
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2 Comments »
January 15th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
This is just creepy. I wonder what’s next: remote controlled toilets?
An California is supposed to be the mecca for freedom and general liberty?
February 4th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
I think it is a symptom of the “diabolical disorientation” that leftist-liberals are more concerned about man’s greedy and irresponsible raping of the earth in the post-industrial age than those who claim to love God. Note the following apocalyptic Scripture:
Isaiah 24:5-6-
“The earth lies polluted
under its inhabitants;
for they have transgressed the laws,
violated the statutes,
broken the everlasting covenant.
Therefore a curse devours the earth,
and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt;
therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched,
and few men are left.”