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Please pardon me for not posting last week's column. I left town immediatly after filing it last Friday and neglected to post it upon my return. Thanks. We Californians are so used to the government butting into our business, many of us no longer take notice.   But a recent proposal by the California Energy Commission was so outrageously Orwellian it was almost impossible to ignore. Not that it rated the same attention as really important news, like Britney Spears' latest drug test. But it should have. For those who may have missed it, allow me to recap. Looking to thwart rolling blackouts and cut energy use during peak hours, the commission recently proposed a takeover of the state's thermostats. Including yours. Sound farfetched? Not to the commission, which recommended the mandate in its revision of California's 2008 energy efficiency building code. The proposal would have required builders to install "programmable communicating thermostats" in every new or...
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