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SACRAMENTO (AP) -- Many flat-screen televisions may soon be unavailable in California stores.
Calling the TVs electricity hogs, state energy regulators are expected to adopt rules this summer requiring retailers to sell only TVs that meet guidelines of the federal Energy Star program by 2011.
Plasma and the popular liquid-crystal display, or LCD, TVs guzzle considerably more energy than old cathode-ray tube sets.
State regulators say a 48-inch plasma TV can draw more power than a large refrigerator.
But industry leaders are objecting to the proposed rules, saying they would bar the sale of nearly a quarter of all flat-screen TVs and all but one plasma TV on the market today.
They say the standards threaten to limit consumer choice, drive shoppers to the Internet and put specialty retailers out of business.
The Associated Press
Goodbye Flat-Screens?: State Weighs Tough TV Energy Standards | News10.net | Sacramento, California | Local News
SACRAMENTO (AP) -- Many flat-screen televisions may soon be unavailable in California stores.
Calling the TVs electricity hogs, state energy regulators are expected to adopt rules this summer requiring retailers to sell only TVs that meet guidelines of the federal Energy Star program by 2011.
Plasma and the popular liquid-crystal display, or LCD, TVs guzzle considerably more energy than old cathode-ray tube sets.
State regulators say a 48-inch plasma TV can draw more power than a large refrigerator.
But industry leaders are objecting to the proposed rules, saying they would bar the sale of nearly a quarter of all flat-screen TVs and all but one plasma TV on the market today.
They say the standards threaten to limit consumer choice, drive shoppers to the Internet and put specialty retailers out of business.
The Associated Press
Goodbye Flat-Screens?: State Weighs Tough TV Energy Standards | News10.net | Sacramento, California | Local News