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...electronics industry and digital media, "you could easily see a doubling of energy consumption. That is the impetus behind these regulations. Most industry people think they will be adopted." The state's Energy Commission reports that the voluntary Energy Star program would "only obtain 27% of the calculated $8.1 billion in potential energy savings for consumers" that would result from the proposed standards...
...regulations are "designed to be cost effective for the consumer over the life of the appliance," says Energy Commission spokesperson Susanne Garfield. The Commission expects California consumers to save between $50 and $250 in electricity costs over the life of the new televisions, and collectively save homeowners nearly $1 billion once the 2013 rules are fully implemented...
...spent well north of $100 billion in the effort to create a technological shield to protect its mainland from incoming missiles - much of it on long-forgotten and never used systems such as Nike, Nike Zeus, Nike-X, Sentinel and Safeguard. The grandest of these, the Safeguard system, was built nearly 40 years ago in Nekoma, N.D. Huge earth-moving machines dug up 1.75 million cu. yd. of rich, black loam from the 470-acre site. Contractors built the base with 160,000 cu. yd. of concrete and 12,000 tons of steel. They crowned their work with a partly...
...working to address that concern," Baucus said, adding that one idea "very much on the table" is to increase the refundable tax credits for those purchasing insurance. That, however, would most likely increase the overall price tag for the measure, which in its current form would cost $774 billion over the next decade, according to estimates by the Congressional Budget Office...
...plans that cost more than $8,000 for individuals and $21,000 for families. Health-policy experts say an excise tax could help curb health spending overall by discouraging the purchase of lavish plans that lead to overuse of the health-care system. The levy would also raise $215 billion over the next decade - or about one-quarter of the cost of the bill. (Watch TIME's video "Uninsured Again...