Incandescent-bulb “ban” repeal heading for defeat?

Hotair ^ | 07/12/2011 | Ed Morrissey

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

their=they’re, of course. Uggh.

[Veritas_et_libertas]

Exactly... GE was a major pusher of the govt regulation “bulb ban”. This regulation minimizes competition and minimizes others entry into the market, thus helping secure the market for GE... Jeff Immelt, the CEO of GE, is Obama’s chairman of the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness... Isn’t life grand.

Oh and how much did GE pay in taxes last year? none?...

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

I’ll have to try one when I’m through with my 20 year supply of incandescents.

[He Rides A White Horse]

No thanks here as well. I picked up two packs (four bulbs) at 50 cents a piece. Somebody told me that they were being sold at a Goodwill store at that price.

[Reagan Disciple]

Everytime I go to HD the GE 100w are scarce so the word is out. Pick some up each time.

Working toward your 20 year supply.

[He Rides A White Horse]

Are there any rules in your area as to how you are going to dispose them when they run out?

I'm not sure. I know that mercury is extremely hazardous however.

[Cheerio]

I have an entire hall closet filled with 40, 60, and 75 watters. Good for the remainder of my life - NO GOVERNMENT is going to tell me what bulb I can light up.

[Red Badger]

Plus they are made in China................

[He Rides A White Horse]

No offense taken. I try to buy American whenever I can.

[MrB]

So, how many negatives can someone cram into a title?

“ban repeal defeat”...

so... can we have our lightbulbs or what?

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

I’m still stacking. At this point, I take whatever wattage is available.

But I refuse to touch the GE bulbs.

[Marak]

Start saving your dead CFLs now because they will become valuable during the election season of 2012. In fact, they may become as symbolic as tea was before the Revolutionary War.

Here is how CFLs can affect the next election.

Wherever Dems gather to rally during the election, break a CFL and call for hazmat teams. Across this country, make it impossible for them to gather and spew their agenda. Let hundreds or thousands of CFLs die daily so the networks cannot avoid reporting on it. And when they do report on it, force the conversation to how the Dems are all for taking choice away from the American public. Show them to be the elite nannies that they are and how they care more for the power to control us than they do for our welfare.

The cost will be small, but the effect will be great.

[katana]

I prefer the fluorescent bulbs. They are kinder to my electric bill.

Tongue in cheek (I remember having dozens of childhood cuts treated with Mercurochrome and lots of fun playing with globules of mercury with friends) but have you purchased an environmental hazard suit for each member of your family with the savings? According to the same EPA which fostered the banning of the crown jewel in Mr. Edison's crown, you'll need them if one those bulbs breaks by accident indoors.

Of course, you could also just evacuate your family from your home for a few hours as the windows are opened to ventilate and you reenter to carefully clean the toxic spill (no vacuum allowed - it would spread the deadly micro debris).

Fortunately, I live near enough to the Canadian border to pay a quick call on an Ikea or Wally World and stock up on the real thing. But where to conceal the contraband through customs? Don't you love how our government is working so hard to make all of us criminals?

[Cyber Liberty]

Not if the Republocrats have their way. Nope.

[Reagan Disciple]

I would agree, but I find the Sylvanias burn out quicker. It may just be me.

I understand your position. I’m 70/30 GE stocked now.....maybe I loosen that up a bit.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Don't you love how our government is working so hard to make all of us criminals?

"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against - then you'll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone?
But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now, that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."

- - Atlas Shrugged

[katana]

China is one place where they can get away with the associated slow mercury poisoning of the production labor in making the bulbs. That is not a tongue in cheek remark. Been widely reported but ignored by the bottom 10% of college graduates inhabiting the press rooms of the nation.

[DrDavid]

The old incandescent bulb is clearly an energy hog. Just 5 percent of the electricity it uses lights the bulb – the rest ends up as heat.

Sometimes 95% heat is desirable.

• Easybake oven&tm;, which won't work with LED or CFL technology.
• Traffic lights need heat to melt snow and ice.
• My dad used them to heat his shop thru Minnesota winters.

[SeekAndFind]

Whether the Incandescent is an energy hog or not is beside the point.

The most important point is this — ARE PEOPLE STILL WILLING TO PAY FOR THIS PRODUCT DESPITE KNOWING OF ITS INEFFICIENCIES?

If not, it will die a natural death. We don’t need Uncle Sam to tell us what and what not to buy are use.

[SeekAndFind]

Whether the Incandescent is an energy hog or not is beside the point.

The most important point is this — ARE PEOPLE STILL WILLING TO PAY FOR THIS PRODUCT DESPITE KNOWING OF ITS INEFFICIENCIES?

If not, it will die a natural death. We don’t need Uncle Sam to tell us what and what not to buy or use.