[raybbr]

What are they going to do with the tons of mercury in those flourescent lamp?

[Omega Man II]

Arnold may be no walk in the park, but a Governor Angelides would be rubber stamping all of this crap that is being proposed.

[Paleo Conservative]

Incandescent bulbs are more efficient for lights that get turned on for just a few seconds or minutes at a time. Fluorescent lights are efficient for leaving on for extended periods, but you dramatically shorten their lives when you turn them on and off frequently.

[stuned_beeber]

Now, as soon as they can figure out how to store all those electrons they are saving...

[blam]

How A Fluorescent Light Works

[TalBlack]

A tyranny of “virtue”. It’ll get us where they all have in History.

[DB]

These morons make all these predictions and they don’t even really know how many people already use CFLs...

There are many applications were only an incandescent will do. Ovens and cars are a good example... And where lighting is on briefly. If it is on briefly, energy use doesn’t matter all that much.

[kempo]

I bought some of the fluorescent bulbs that were suppose to be 100W but they only put out the some amount of light that a 60W incandescent bulb puts out.

I was very disappointed.

[Terpin]

There go the dimmer switches! Now people will have to light candles to get their ladies in the mood. That will lead to more fires, property damage, and casualties! Oh the humanity!

[kcvl]

Lloyd Levine was elected to the California State Assembly in November, 2002. From founding a local chapter of Students Against Drunk Driving while in high school, to serving on the Secretary of State's External Working Group on Campaign Finance Reform

Mr. Levine earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Studio Art with an emphasis in photography in 1992 at the University of California at Riverside. It was while working to help pass a ballot measure to fund law enforcement and community college programs that he decided to give up a promising career in photography to dedicate his life to fighting for working families.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

This is what Jim Robinson was talking about. The fight against socialism in all of its forms doesn’t stop at abortion.

[NavVet]

No more subtly turning down the dimmer and putting in the Barry White CD.

[goldstategop]

The same California Democrats who want to force the state's residents to buy environmentally hazardous lightbulbs are the same Democrats who've just blocked lifting a 30 year moratorium on the construction of new nuclear power plants in the state.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Is is possible and worthwhile to get something on the ballot to create a legislature where elected officials meet periodically and hold full time jobs in their districts? A legislature made up of people who really work for a living? These people have too much time on their hands and not enough contact with the real world.

[dead]

"It's the equivalent of taking 400,000 cars off the road," he added.

[DumpsterDiver]

California is at it again.

TOBACCO FEE - Smokers would have to pay an environmental impact fee under legislation by Sen. Tom Torlakson, D-Martinez, that is on the Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee's agenda on Wednesday. The fee, which would be set by the Department of Public Health, would pay for stop-smoking programs, health care and medical research.

BEACH SMOKING - Sen. Jenny Oropeza, D-Long Beach, wants to ban smoking at state parks and on state-owned beaches. Her bill is on the Senate Natural Resources and Wildlife Committee's agenda on Tuesday. Supporters say the ban would mirror steps taken by a number of local governments and reduce litter, exposure to secondhand smoke and fire dangers.

[ken21]

i’m so tired of socialists telling me how to live.

at the library used bookstore a couple of weeks ago the woman ahead of me

at the check out counter

got irritated that a staff member would offer her a plastic bag for her paperback books.

she said that she’d be glad when the state legislated them out of existence.

[secretagent]

Welfare for the big producers of the new bulbs. If it makes cost sense, we don’t need the government to force purchase of fluorescents.

If it doesn’t make cost sense, why would we want government to force fluorescents?

[elkfersupper]

These people don;t have enough to do.

[muawiyah]

This guy Levine is a regular Ludite. Everyone knows LED bulbs are next and the compact fluorescents are just a stepping stone.

Best he keep his nose out of this business and go tend his sheep.