Cow Patties

I sincerely believe that if the media came out with a story that said eating cow patties is the best thing that you can do, there would be millions out in the pastures following cows around to get ahead of everyone else. Sound ridiculous? Not really. Wether you will admit it or not, this country is overrun with people that think if they hear it on the radio, see it on TV or the internet, it must be true.

The LA Times ran a story this week, and there were numerous other reports from other media, that cable TV boxes are the second largest energy users in many homes. This means that your TV box for satellite or cable uses more energy than your refrigerator, clothes dryer, or oven. If you believe that, I have some ocean front property in West Texas I’m sure you would like to buy.

The story points out that some of the boxes uses almost as much energy when they are off as when they are on. This is true, they do. So do computers. But, a little further into the story, it is revealed that the average consumption is 35 watts. That means it takes almost 29 hours to use 1 kilowatt of electricity. Electric consumption is measured in kilowatts and kilowatt hours. If the box runs 24 hours per day, 30 days per month, at a rate of 15¢ per kWh (kilowatt- hour) the cost would be $3.78 per month. That’s a lot less than running a refrigerator or just about anything else in your house.

Now there is a movement to demand that the televison providers improve their equipment so it is energy efficient. All the while, the government has taken steps to shut down coal plants so there will be less electricity which will result in shortages and much higher prices.

All of this because some woman in Los Alamitos saw on the back of her receiver a rating of 500 watts. She has no idea that the rating is how much power the unit can take in a sudden power surge before it is destroyed.

Back to the cow patties. They couldn’t taste any worse or do nearly the harm as believing the stuff that is put out as fact by the media and the government.

It’s BS.

PMO
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