Even bureaucrats can eventually be persuaded that a stupid idea is stupid. The California Energy Commission announced on Tuesday that they are dropping the requirements for radio-controlled thermostats from the Title 24 regulations.
The public outcry was fairly intense; it was a subject on several Los Angeles talk radio shows. And everyone who called in—Republicans and Democrats and others—all thought the idea was bad. Chairman of the state Assembly Committee on Utilities and Commerce, Lloyd Levine (D-Van Nuys) put it well, telling the San Francisco Chronicle, “While more needs to be done to keep up with the needs of our ever-increasing population, it’s not the job of the (state) to go into peoples’ homes and control their thermostats.”
