TVs are the latest puritan target

More government funded drivel trying to make us feel guilty about our nasty consumerist indulgences. Apparently plasma televisions use more electricity which is wasteful. Except it forgets about the first law of thermodynamics, that energy can't be created or destroyed. If your plasma tv "wastes" electricity, it is giving it out as heat, for at least half a year that means your central heating doesn't have to work so hard as you have a 42 inch radiator heating up your lounge along with showing "Desperate Housewives". Factor this in and the supposed "waste" tends to go down an awful lot, but that would mean state quangos such as the energy saving trust and the (frankly sinister sounding) market transformation programme would have less to lecture us about.