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Fun With Cap and Trade: No more than 60 watts in your Candelabra
Patriot Room ^ | July 1, 2009 | Bill Dupray

Posted on 07/01/2009 8:18:32 PM PDT by Bill Dupray

Sir, the candle is in full compliance with the new Cap and Trade law prohibiting bright light bulbs, but the water bottles are a felony. Please come with us.

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: capandtrade; energytax; freesom; lightbulbs

1 posted on 07/01/2009 8:18:33 PM PDT by Bill Dupray
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To: Bill Dupray

I think I’ll light my property with pitch soaked torches.


2 posted on 07/01/2009 8:20:15 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: Bill Dupray

And just what is their definition of “candelabra”?? Were they trying to say chandelier? Some chandeliers have a heck of a lot more than 6 lights. What are people supposed to use, nightlight bulbs???


3 posted on 07/01/2009 8:29:16 PM PDT by Darnright (There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive. - Tacitus)
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To: Bill Dupray

I’d hate to be the poor fool that shows up at my house to try and enforce this “rule.”


4 posted on 07/01/2009 8:34:58 PM PDT by patriot preacher (To be a good American Citizen and a Christian IS NOT a contradiction. (www.mygration.blogspot.com))
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To: Bill Dupray
If you decide to sell your existing home, a federal inspector must inspect your home, determine it's energy rating, and if your home is found to be unacceptable then you must retrofit and make changes before you will be able to sell.

My favorite part. Fourth Amendment, what's that?

5 posted on 07/01/2009 8:40:40 PM PDT by denydenydeny ("I'm sure this goes against everything you've been taught, but right and wrong do exist"-Dr House)
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To: patriot preacher
Somebody had a brainfart and decided to expand on the standard FHA/VA "inspection standards".

That individual is very dangerous and will need to be stopped some time in the future ~ and I'm sure that once we retrieve Congress this little puke can be brought before a People's Court of Inquiry and made to talk ~ !

(At least I hope so).

6 posted on 07/01/2009 8:40:51 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Bill Dupray
All dinners will become “romantic” as they will all be
done by candle light. (A black market on candles and
hi-wattage bulbs will spring up)

All meals will also be stir fried in woks as this
requires very little cooking fuel.

JJ61

7 posted on 07/01/2009 8:40:53 PM PDT by JerseyJohn61 (Better Late Than Never.......sometimes over lapping is worth the effort....)
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To: patriot preacher
Part of the bill also calls for the government to take money paid by middle and upper class people and give it to the lower class using direct deposit. Obama will use direct deposit to redistribute money every month. This bill is sickening.
8 posted on 07/01/2009 8:44:52 PM PDT by peeps36 ( Al Gore. Is A Big Fat Lying Hypocrite. He Pollutes The Air By Opening His Big Mouth)
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To: Bill Dupray

“Get off my lawn...”


9 posted on 07/01/2009 8:45:28 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (III)
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To: Darnright

You’ve got a point there. Candelabras hold candles. Well, a good lawyer can get us around that one. We ain’t got no stinkin’ candelabras here, just these blazingly hot and bright kleig lights.


10 posted on 07/01/2009 8:46:29 PM PDT by Bill Dupray
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To: patriot preacher
No one will enforce this rule. It will never be law.

Doncha get it? This outrage rope-a-dope: the throwaway egregiousness that covers for the real thefts of liberty. They're throwing it all over the place. Tie the media...including FR...up for a week or two; submarined, counted as a victory.

It's SMOKESCREEN!!!!

11 posted on 07/01/2009 8:53:00 PM PDT by dasboot
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To: Bill Dupray

bump


12 posted on 07/01/2009 9:03:34 PM PDT by EverOnward
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To: Bill Dupray

I did some research on the term candelabra as it refers to light bulbs. The word refers to the bulbs that have the smaller bases. They go in some chandeliers and in some ceiling fixtures.

Perhaps the politicians mean the bulbs with candelabra bases cannot be over 60 watts. Who the heck knows.


13 posted on 07/01/2009 9:19:20 PM PDT by Darnright (There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive. - Tacitus)
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To: Bill Dupray

Off-topic, but was at Walmart recently and saw they no longer carried standard 60, 75 and 100 watt incandescent light bulbs. They were 54, 67 and don’t remember the 100 watt replacement. Ridiculous, as instead of buying the 54 watt replacement, I got the 67 watt for my 60 watt need. I need the light, not 6 watts of forced energy savings and darkness.


14 posted on 07/01/2009 10:39:00 PM PDT by kenth
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45 posted on Wednesday, July 01, 2009 12:41:31 PM by Jim Robinson (Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jimrobfr)

15 posted on 07/01/2009 11:32:19 PM PDT by Brad's Gramma (BG x 2)
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To: Bill Dupray

Who is responsible for the writings of the bill???


16 posted on 07/02/2009 6:30:28 AM PDT by danamco
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To: muawiyah

http://americangrandjury.org/

You want to join??? I have!!!


17 posted on 07/02/2009 6:33:02 AM PDT by danamco
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To: dasboot
It will never be law.

People said the same thing about the McLame/Feingold's when GWB did NOT veto it, hmmm. Or like Rush chimes when people says: "It can never happen!!!

18 posted on 07/02/2009 6:39:05 AM PDT by danamco
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To: danamco

You are correct, sir.


19 posted on 07/02/2009 11:16:09 AM PDT by dasboot
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To: Bill Dupray

Can’t buy 100w floodlights for kitchen either. Checked all over.....I AM FURIOUS!


20 posted on 07/02/2009 11:24:31 AM PDT by Kiss7
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To: Kiss7

They are available online. Check out 1000bulbs.com. Great source for stocking up (as I plan to do for me and my extended family! I definitely don’t want them using those mercury bulbs from HELL or having to pony up serious money for leds just to get decent lighting in the home!) This bill needs to be repealed as unconstitutional by the states. It’s just onerous!!


21 posted on 07/10/2009 12:35:40 AM PDT by JLLH
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To: JLLH

I did not mean actually “repealed” as such as SCOTUS would have to do that...just meant the States need some kind of opt-out option for their citizens. Pretty sure there’s nothing in the Constitution which allows Feds to regulate every aspect of citizens’ private lives...


22 posted on 07/10/2009 12:37:29 AM PDT by JLLH
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