California utilities would control the temperature of new homes and commercial buildings in emergencies with a radio-controlled thermostat, under a proposed state update to building energy efficiency standards.
Customers could not override the thermostats during “emergency events,” according to the proposal, part of a 236-page revision to building standards. The document is scheduled to be considered by the California Energy Commission, a state agency, on Jan. 30.
The description does not provide any exception for health or safety concerns. It also does not define what are “emergency events.”
Eventually, we can get to a system where an electric company will be able to hold back some of the power so that maybe your air conditioner won’t operate at its peak, you’ll still be able to cool your house, but that’ll be a savings to the consumer. And so [we will be] giving people and companies a role in the management of how we use electricity.
Until last week, Carol M. Browner, President-elect Barack Obama’s pick as global warming czar, was listed as one of 14 leaders of a socialist group’s Commission for a Sustainable World Society, which calls for “global governance” and says rich countries must shrink their economies to address climate change.
By Thursday, Mrs. Browner’s name and biography had been removed from Socialist International’s Web page, though a photo of her speaking June 30 to the group’s congress in Greece was still available.
Socialist International, an umbrella group for many of the world’s social democratic political parties such as Britain’s Labor Party, says it actively supports socialism and is harshly critical of U.S. policies.
My HOME and how I live in it are MY business and ANY son of a bitch from the socialist regime of Barack Fucking Obama that try to change it will be met with HOT LEAD!!
I am just one old guy but I am NOT terribly happy at this point in time and IF I can remove a few socialist gulag admins that’s just a few more that the young guys won’t have to…
GOD BLESS AMERICA and DEATH to her enemies, be they foreign OR domestic!!
…..And so [we will be] giving people and companies a role in the management of how we use electricity…..
Carol Browner can suck my ass. We have that role now, and I don’t intend to give it to any level of government!
Storm clouds or not, the new masthead is compelling imagery! Great post, as always . . . .
I am NOT looking forward to this and i can guarantee you Obama will lose in 2012. If he doesn’t and we are insane enough to elect him then the left gets what they deserve via his socialism and we are going to have to excersize our constitutional right to kick him out of office.
Socialism or Fascism, it feels the same.
I can just see it now.
If this works the same way govt USUALLY works by the time they decide it will be ok to turn up your thermostat for the below zero day in Jan it will be late June!!!
Rivka said, “I can guarantee you Obama will lose in 2012” Oh how I wish it would be so, but I hate to remind ourselves of the year 1996.
“And, apparently, Mr Obama and Ms Browner want Europe, right here, right now.”
What do you mean apparently. That’s what the left have been working for, for years now, to remake America into just another useless socialist shithole.
Not to throw a wrench into the left’s sprocket or anything, but what about those people who need to keep their homes at a particular temperature for health reasons? Or, what about sensitive items in the house that react wildly to swings in temperature, like, oh, say, bamboo wood floors? Or the piano? Or the very studs in the walls? Who’s gonna pay for repairing the renewable, green flooring? Who’s going to pay for re-tuning the piano every time the environazis decide to adjust your thermostat? Who’s going to repair the cracks and repaint the walls every time the studs twist from a temperature change?
bunchamoronstryingtorunthiscountryintotheground