Posted on 12/16/2011 5:30:52 AM PST by markomalley
Congressional negotiators struck a deal Thursday that overturns the new rules that were to have banned sales of traditional incandescent light bulbs beginning next year.
That agreement is tucked inside the massive 1,200-page spending bill that funds the government through the rest of this fiscal year, and which both houses of Congress will vote on Friday. Mr. Obama is expected to sign the bill, which heads off a looming government shutdown.
Congressional Republicans dropped almost all of the policy restrictions they tried to attach to the bill, but won inclusion of the light bulb provision, which prevents the Obama administration from carrying through a 2007 law that would have set energy efficiency standards that effectively made the traditional light bulb obsolete.
The bill doesn’t actually amend the 2007 law, but does prohibit the administration from spending any money to carry out the light bulb standards — which amounts to at least a temporary reprieve.
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Since you can not tell the difference the two kinds of bulbs go ahead and buy what ever kind are cheaper. Hopefully you will never have guests in your home who are ultra sensitive to florescent lighting.
When we moved into our brand new home four years my sweet hubby installed twisty bulbs in most the light fixtures. Both of us thought the twisty bulbs would be superior the traditional ones. Within a month he replaced all but two of the twisty bulbs because he thought the twisty bulbs made the interior of our new house dingy.
By the way I have a whole case of the dang bulbs that none of our friends or family want. What I need to do is give the case of bulbs away to the Salvation Army.
Since you can not tell the difference the two kinds of bulbs go ahead and buy what ever kind are cheaper. Hopefully you will never have guests in your home who are ultra sensitive to florescent lighting.
When we moved into our brand new home four years my sweet hubby installed twisty bulbs in most the light fixtures. Both of us thought the twisty bulbs would be superior the traditional ones. Within a month he replaced all but two of the twisty bulbs because he thought the twisty bulbs made the interior of our new house dingy.
By the way I have a whole case of the dang bulbs that none of our friends or family want. What I need to do is give the case of bulbs away to the Salvation Army. The shape of the twisty bulb is not what most people object to, rather it is the quality of the light.
love your post #34!
Sounds like a new business opportunity for someone.
That late? I'm amazed.
The good part is Zero gets to choose between pissing off his base by signing or pissing off the country by not signing.
I’m in!
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