Friday, September 18, 2009
Today's News: Oh what a funny species we are! For at least a decade or two of great financial abundance we have enjoyed, suddenly GONE are the MONSTROUS HUMMER DAYS and in pop the new, fit-it-in-your-breadbox and plug it into your wall socket SMART CARS. But that's not all that's going mini in this sudden new, 'Clean up Mama Earth' eco frenzy. In breaking news, the California Energy Commission is slated to unveil new standards,
requiring electronics retailers to sell only energy-sipping TV models starting in
2011. Even tougher efficiency criteria would follow in 2013. Just call it the BIG CASH COW CRACKDOWN. MOOOOO. Apparently, BIG TV's guzzle up lots of energy and California's energy needs are so vast, it still must import about 30% of its
electricity from out of state. How funny. Manufacturers have spent years developing SUPER SIZED TV's for consumers to buy and it ends up that everyone may be scrambling to garage sales to skoff up all those portable mini kitchen TV's that were a big hit in the early seventies and eighty's.
A lovely thought just popped to mind. How about we all support a writer, get a good book, snuggle up under a warm toasty lamp and read to our children?