Posted on 07/09/2011 4:19:47 PM PDT by Clairity
One of the most personally intrusive, regulation-happy green bills that ever passed through Congress, the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 made the sale of most incandescent light bulbs virtually illegal by January 1st, 2012. The bill imposed arbitrary efficiency standards that the producers of traditional lightbulbs couldn't hope to meet, making their more expensive, less reliable Compact Flourescent Lightbulb (CFL) cousins the new standard. So, goodbye consumer choice, hello government oversight.
Thankfully, the House is finally making moves to repeal this - at best, ill-thought-out; at worst, you-will-go-green-and-you-will-like-it - law. On Monday, expect to see a vote on the Better Use of Lightbulbs (BULB) Act, meant to reverse the 2007 law's provision on banning incandescents.
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i love not changing lightbulbs every 3 months
I love freedom more.
Maybe so, but I personally hate the light produced by the new bulbs and most importantly, it ain’t the G’ments biz to dictate what kind of bulb I wish to purchase.
I’ve said it before and here it is again: If the Republicans can’t do this, they can’t do anything.
It will never be passed by the rat controlled Senate.
Related:
Lighten up, feds
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view/2011_0709lighten_up_feds/
“Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs), which Washington hopes will replace incandescent ones, brighten slowly, function poorly with dimmer knobs, and emit a color of light that many find unappealing. Even worse, according to EnergyStar.gov, each CFL contains 4 milligrams of toxic mercury. An average CFL includes enough mercury to pollute 528 gallons of water.’
While employment tops America’s agenda, Washington’s war on the Edison bulb already has killed jobs. Last September, General Electric (a company founded by Edison) padlocked its last U.S. incandescent bulb factory
In October 2008, GE shuttered six Ohio incandescent plants, leaving 425 workers in the dark. Meanwhile, labor-intensive CFL production is thriving - in China.”
Most of those bulbs are even worse for the environment.
If you are in prison what else do you have to do? ;-)
“i love not changing lightbulbs every 3 months”
I’ve got those curly bulbs in my new ceiling fans, and within a month 3 of them wet dead.
Incandescent lighbulbs last a lot more than 3 months — besides, it should be YOUR or MY choice what kind of lightbulbs I want to buy.
You are still free to buy CFLs, if that is your preference, but the government shouldn’t take away MY choice of buying incandescent bulbs.
It’s NOT the government’s decision.
Me to, I bought a few of them little suckers last year and they are still going, I don’t know if I am saving any juice or not but I like them, what I don’t like is some government bureaucrat telling me what to buy. I bought the new bubs because I like them but if I want the others they should be available to.
I do agree it shouldn't be mandatory.
But candles begot lanterns and lanterns begot gas lights and gas lights begot electirc lights.
I use both kinds...just because I have both.
Sigh.
Congress should not be legislating anything about lightbulbs, period!
Better use, worse use, wasteful use, no use, use for photographing polar bears, rectal insertion for perverse gratification, purple or black light bulbs for parties - NONE OF IT IS ANY BUSINESS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
If "better use" is the GOP's idea of an improvement, the GOP can FOAD, as far as I'm concerned.
Q: How many Marxists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: None: The light bulb contains the seeds of its own revolution.
*SMIRK*
Not only that, it is discriminatory. My husband has a medical condition that causes severe sensitivity to florescent light (we can’t use them at all) and this law would force us to go back to either gas lighting, candles, no lighting, or resorting to buying them from Canada.
Here’s a snippet from a Natl Review article:
“...Those swirly bulbs that Washington hopes will replace incandescents are called compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs). They brighten slowly, function poorly with dimmer knobs, and emit light that many find unappealing. Even worse, according to EnergyStar.gov, each CFL contains 4 milligrams of toxic mercury. Given the Environmental Protection Agency’s “maximum contaminant level” of 0.002 milligrams per liter, an average CFL contains enough mercury to pollute 528 gallons of water — more than enough to fill ten typical 50-gallon residential water heaters.
“As the EPA warns, “High exposures to inorganic mercury may result in damage to the gastrointestinal tract, the nervous system, and the kidneys.”
“Breaking a CFL triggers a significant health hazard that requires a ten-step clean-up. Among other things, the EPA recommends “opening a window or door to the outdoor environment.” No problem . . . unless you occupy an apartment, hotel room, or office with sealed windows. Most modern skyscrapers lack operable windows. The same is true for many Capitol Hill offices.
“The irony should be lost on no one that many members of Congress who crafted this legislation lack the ability to vent the toxic vapors from these eco-friendly lights that they have foisted on us,” says Chicago real-estate developer Justin Berzon.
“Shut off the central forced air heating/air conditioning system,” EPA advises. Again, what if you break a CFL in an office tower? Shall the entire building freeze or roast while this mini–Superfund site gets sanitized?
“Continue to air out the room where the bulb was broken and leave the H&AC system shut off, as practical, for several hours,” EPA counsels. This might upset residents of Phoenix, where temperatures hit 105 degrees on Tuesday. Likewise, opening one’s windows in Minneapolis might be unappealing in January, when highs average 22 degrees...”
I can’t see how anyone who reads this whole article in its entirety.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/271294/light-failed-deroy-murdock
Give me liberty, and give me my light bulbs, some Americans say
http://www.kansascity.com/2011/07/07/3001033/give-me-liberty-and-give-me-my.html
“The Energy Independence and Security Act gradually increases energy-efficiency standards. Eventually all new bulbs will have to use at least 27 percent less energy than standard incandescents do today.
That will essentially ban traditional 100-, 75-, 60- and 40-watt incandescent bulbs by 2014.
A second set of standards in 2020 will require most light bulbs to become 60 to 70 percent more efficient.”
Why don’t they just mandate that we all use candles?!
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