Posted on 01/01/2014 1:17:48 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Pretty much.
Minorities and women hardest hit.
You’re welcome, Mikey! Months ago, I heard the owner of this company on with—I can’t remember which radio show, maybe it was Rush or Beck.
Well, I guess we could all go back to candles.
WXRGina wrote:
Buy rough-service incandescents:
This light bulb ban is insane and senseless.
I have a friend with that problem. I have given him all my incandescents. I switched to CFLs 15 years ago, and probably saved at least $2,000 on electric costs alone. The savings on bulb replacement has also been considerable. The article talks of 25 cent bulbs. Except for big sales that figure must be 40 years old. Nevertheless, I do feel that Incandescents should be available for those who have flourescent light problems.
If they didn’t like them, they could just stop making them. But that’s not what it was about.
It is none of George W. Bush's or and Congress' business to decide that for me.
“Why do they call them rough service?”
First time I got an auto “trouble light” I went through about half a dozen light bulbs in half an hour. Every time I bumped it against something the bulb blew. I finally asked my Dad “do they make special bulbs for this thing?” His answer was yes, they do.
Apparently they have thicker filaments.
After I got some, I had no problem.
“I dont do well at all under flourescant light”
My wife has treated many people like that.
read http://www.readingandlight.com/selftest
going to fluorescent lighting will cause major health problems for years to come
Yes oddly enough industry supported regulations that would force people to buy more expensive patentable technology over less expensive open tech.
I.e. the industry saw the environmental movement as conducive to a giant profit making scam centered around a wholesale switch to new/different bulbs...
‘Cause they’re made ostensibly to sit out in the open in your Montana stock pen and endure 100 degree temperature swings over the several years it operates...
Product might be ok, but can't past the Edison popup on page 1.
Dunno who's worse .. a coder who'd write it, or the dork who'd approve it.
It was Congress.
The industry knew in advance what Congress was up to (thanks to one mfg lobbiest offering $$$$$) to "phase out" a product that most people want but environmentalists determined that they worked too well, so they MUST be bad for the environment!
Poof, bad incandescent bulbs outlawed - mercury bulbs in!!!!
Just like the well-functioning toilets, environmentalists claiming we were "running out of water," therefore, toilets using more than 1.5 gallons of water outlawed, toilets that must be flushed at least 4 times to finish the "job" mandatory!
Same thing tried for washing machines - lousy front loading machines using minimal water almost became mandatory, until people realized that they were truly awful and began screaming demanding top loaders again.
If the industry was "phasing out incandescent bulbs" they were doing so without the benefit of public opinion, like ME!
Pure BS! Only being done to please someone wanting to make a killing by forcing a product not only out of the market but becoming illegal.
Try applying makeup by a mercury "low energy bulb." That is if you can find your eyes. Doesn't work period!!!
Yay. Now we can buy $20 LEDs. I have roughly 40 sockets. That is only 800 to save the whales. Yay.
Dupont did the same thing with R12. Anyone ever heard ofnthe big PABA scare in sunscreen. Ever hear of the BPA in plastic bottles. All junk science.
Where in the Constitution does it say the commoners have a right to choose their own light bulbs?
The other day I was looking at some bulbs when I accidently knocked a CFL onto the floor where it broke within its protective packaging. I told my wife we should probably call HAZMAT. We left but I’m thinking if this were a common occurrence would we get our incandescents back?
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