You can't make this stuff up.

Tom McClintock is not impressed.

I admit that I didn't believe the first reports that the California Energy Commission is seriously considering a law to require homeowners to install a thermostat that can be adjusted by government bureaucrats. It seemed like 'black helicopter' hysterics to suggest our government has become so intrusive that it would seek to monitor and control minute decisions like what temperature we set for our own homes.

The rationale for this brave new world is that government can promote energy conservation and avert blackouts by electronically entering our homes and adjusting our thermostats for us.

Yea, and while your at it, we can have the democrats install chips in our cars to regulate the maximum speed we will be allowed to drive. Oh gosh, I shouldn't give Fabien any ideas.