{"id":22697,"date":"2015-04-09T18:22:12","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T22:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22697"},"modified":"2015-04-09T18:22:12","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T22:22:12","slug":"get-the-government-out-of-your%e2%80%a6-toilet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22697\/get-the-government-out-of-your%e2%80%a6-toilet\/","title":{"rendered":"Get the Government Out of Your\u2026 Toilet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California Governor Jerry Brown\u2019s new water rationing edict is giving state regulators the cover they need to impose all kinds of nanny state restrictions on law-abiding citizens.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to installing \u2018smart meters\u2019 on businesses and homes to <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/61-state-issues\/2534-californias-water-rationing-a-man-made-disaster \" target=\"_blank\">monitor water usage and impose fines<\/a>, the California Energy Commission is using Brown\u2019s executive order to increase the use of low-flow appliances. Beginning in January 2016, all toilets and faucets sold in the state must conform to higher water efficiency standards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWednesday\u2019s vote also sets a 1.28 gallon maximum water flow for toilets, putting in place a limit included in a 2007 law but never formally translated into water-efficiency regulations,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/politics-government\/capitol-alert\/article17873477.html \" target=\"_blank\">reports the Sacramento Bee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to believe that a state so friendly to the environmental lobby as California would have failed to implement even more restrictions when it had the chance, unless doing so would be extremely burdensome and therefore unpopular. Now, however, they can simply claim an emergency and ignore the outcry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Governor Jerry Brown\u2019s new water rationing edict is giving state regulators the cover they need to impose all kinds of nanny state restrictions on law-abiding citizens. In addition to installing \u2018smart meters\u2019 on businesses and homes to monitor water usage and impose fines, the California Energy Commission is using Brown\u2019s executive order to increase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[299,2035,50,300,4664],"class_list":["post-22697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-california","tag-jerry-brown","tag-rationing","tag-regulation","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22697"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22702,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22697\/revisions\/22702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}