Back in this post I worte about the smart grid system, and how it will lead to a control of our home thermostats in the name of “energy conservation.”

This is what I wrote:

Also, with monitoring now, control inevitably follows. California is already trying to control the thermostats of homes and businesses because they don’t have enough power. So your house temperature would be set by the government, not by you. Doesn’t that sound a little, intrusive? But it will be the future, maybe not tomorrow, or next week, but within 5 years, it won’t sound so far fetched.

Well, this article has the following paragraph:

Someday utilities hope to use the meter to control consumption by major appliances like air conditioners. But experts are still debating what technical standards the meters and appliances should use to communicate.

If I want to keep my house at 87 degrees in the winter and 24 degrees in the summer, as long as I can afford the utility bills, that should be my right! This BS of telling us what is best for us by the regulation of my major appliances is just another nanny state step, brought on my those frackin’ Liberals who don’t think that I can make decisions on my own, or that I should not be allowed to make decisions like that, because I’m not “aware of the environment” and how I’m “damaging it.”

We don’t own the software we use on our computers, (what, you don’t read the EULA? Shame on you), now the power we purchase will not be ours, what’s next? What else will be taken away from us in the name of “You’re not smart enough, you don’t understand”? We are already on the bridge to losing most of our freedoms over our own bodies by nationalizing health care. How about rationing of gasoline, to end the “wasteful abuse” by all those “evil” SUVs?

But Liberals need SUV’s, and control over their own thermostats. They’re smart enough to do it the right way, just not the rest of us.

Lord, save us from those who think they are saving us from ourselves.