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NewsFactor – California’s ban on plasma-screen televisions to reduce energy consumption could cost as much as $50 million per year in sales taxes because consumers are free to buy the sets online or in other states. At a time when the state of California is facing its worst money crisis in history, this is going to be disastrous, said Jennifer Bemisderfer, a spokesperson for the Consumer Electronics Association, which lobbied against the ban.