California leads the country ‘in a lot of good ways and a lot of ...
California leads the country “in a lot of good ways and a lot of bad ways,” state Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Pacoima, told an energy efficiency panel at CES when asked about energy limits on large-screen TVs recently imposed by…
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the California Energy Commission. Padilla said the commission “didn’t pay enough attention to the concerns of brick and mortar retailers” when it approved the rules. They put retailers at a “competitive disadvantage” to online merchants that can continue to ship energy-guzzling TVs to California consumers without restriction, Padilla said at the session Thursday. Brick-and-mortar retailers that do business in parts of the state that border Nevada also are at a disadvantage, because consumers can cross state lines and shop for unrestricted TVs, he said. Padilla said he and the Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee that he chairs will continue to “pound these issues” until the rules are made fairer to brick-and-mortar retailers.