What a crock - I love California, but this is an example of stupid legislation that makes the rest of the country hate us. I understand the need for CAFE standards and mileage per gallon restrictions on cars, but TVs? C'mon.
You can engineer a smaller car that still gets you from Point A to Point B more efficiently, but a TV is only a picture - any changes to that directly impact its functionality. You can argue that you use only one seat of a car and thus have no need for a truck bed/back seat/V8 engine, but you never only watch part of a TV screen or ever have an urge to view it only halfway dimmed. Are TVs really that big a problem?
Seems to me like that pro-hybrid legislation that gets you tax cuts for buying a 40mpg Prius, yet I get no benefit for choosing a 35mpg conventional compact car. It completely misses the point...
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