California Narrowly Dodges Thermostat Police
Proposed law would have allowed government to set your thermostat.
by Jeff Davis
For decades the crazy liberal socialists running California failed to build enough power plants to keep up with the rapidly growing population. A flood of illegal aliens caused the population to swell even faster. The result has been a demand for electricity that sometimes results in brown outs and black outs.
So what is the latest move out of Sacramento? Are they finally going to allow more power plants to be built? Of course not. The California legislature seriously wanted the power to set YOUR thermostat by remote control. The International Herald Tribune reports: “The conceit in the 1960s show The Outer Limits was that outside forces had taken control of your television set. 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.”
Thankfully a massive wave of public protest shut this down, but the mere fact that politicians would even consider granting themselves this much intrusive control on our lives is more than a little alarming. (more…)