Posted on 03/24/2011 6:35:51 AM PDT by IbJensen
Touted to last ten years; the little squggley bulbs do NOT last two years. We've replaced Edison's marvelous invention with this worthless, underpowered piece of crap puked out by the liberal pansies who rule and ruin our lives. Now we've gone back to the stores to buy up all the USA made light bulbs we can.
Hey new HR: get this piece of crap thrown at us by your predecessors and while you're at it find out why the fools saddled the trucking industry with expensive diesel fuel that only makes the cost of goods rise!
It is past time we had our own version of the Tea Party. What should be done is to demand that this law be overturned, and if it is not, the people should march on the Capitol building armed to the teeth with CFL mercury vapor lights and start tossing them on the steps of Congress.
Let the eat mercury!
No CFLs are made in America because the lawsuits from people with “Mad Hatters Syndrome” would put them out of business. China will bury them quietly.
“Fluorescent lights are filled with a gas containing low-pressure mercury vapor and argon, or sometimes even krypton. The inner surface of the bulb is coated with a fluorescent coating made of varying blends of metallic and rare earth phosphor salts. Fluorescent light bulbs are more energy efficient than incandescent light bulbs of an equivalent brightness, and the efficiency of fluorescent lighting owes much to low-pressure mercuryphoton discharges. But fluorescents don’t produce a steady light, and they burn out more quickly when cycled frequently; they also contain items such as fluorine, neon, and lead powder as well as mercury.”
Let’s see, mercury powder, argon, Krypton, phosphor salts,fluorine, neon and lead powder. Hmm...I wonder how THIS got past the EPA? Oh, That’s Right, it only harms evil humans...
I’m confused why we aren’t moving to LED bulbs.
Oh yea, longer life, lower power requirements, and more durable. who’d want those
Of course, we’d make them here and not in china
The Left pretends that jobs leave America because greedy capitalists are just trying to make more money. It seems pretty clear to me that jobs are leaving America because the Left keeps passing taxes and regulations which make manufacturing in America a loser’s game.
The Mercury Party is born.
CFL’s don’t work worth a damn keeping my pump house pipes from freezing, either......
The article has a weird fixation on “the 100-watt incandescent light bulb”. I think the ban will apply to all incandescent light bulbs. If not the ban would ban very little.
And, of course, George W. Bush signed this absurd bill into law.
These new bulbs also have a 3 page.....let's review....3 PAGE EPA direction on how to clean up after one breaks.
Planned obsolescence. LED bulbs simply last too long. CFL's have regular turnover and keep our Chi-com masters happy. Think GM mentality.....
This isn’t the first time this happened, where US companies more or less “colluded” with the green weenies to change what products are manufactured. The US chemical and refrigeration industry were in on the whole CFC thing too. Remember the good old R-12 refrigerant? Well, it seems that all the patents expired on it, and it became relatively cheap to manufacture. So competitors were cutting in on US company profits. The new stuff had valid patents and was more expensive to manufacture. So, let’s ban the old stuff, and force consumers to buy new appliances and refrigerant units because the old units can’t be serviced. What a great deal.
I wonder if we mail these squiggly pieces of crap bulbs to the congresscritters who voted for this absurd law and the President who signed it, would that bring the Government down on us for sending mail bombs (especially if the postal workers dropped the packages and broke the bulbs... Hmmmm.
“We’ve replaced Edison’s marvelous invention with this worthless, underpowered piece of crap puked out by the liberal pansies who rule and ruin our lives.”
VERY well said!
This is a sticking point with me as well. Whenever there’s a conversation about Incandescent vs. CFL, there is almost NEVER a discussion of LED Lights. LEDs were limited in the past and so most didn’t know about or talk about them. But now, there is a much larger variety. LEDs are as bright if not brighter, can produce both brilliant white (outdoor) and soft white (indoor) light, come in dimmable varieties, are more energy efficient than CFLs. The biggest turn off has always been price, you can pay an average of $30 for a bulb, but with an average usage life of 30,000 hours (incandescent average is 1000), it more than pays for itself. The bulbs are also made of plastic, so there’s no shattering, and there is virtually no heat. Oh yah, no poisonous materials in LEDs either.
Blaming an inanimate object is misguided and precisely what liberals want. Try putting the blame where it really belongs...on the lawmakers who ramrodded this asinine decision through.
Some of us actually like the bulbs, and in some cases for exactly the reasons others dislike them (lack of heat) but EVERYONE should have been able to choose whatever lightbulb tickles their fancy.
Payoff to the trial lawyers.
In a few years some sort of pseudo-science will get ginned up about the mercury or the phosphors getting into groundwater, or the milk supply, or something else (maybe RF radiation from the ballasts will be shown to cause impotence among lesbians), and there’ll be a massive class action lawsuit, $500 billion or so, which will go to a consortium of legal bottom-feeders. They, in return, will kick back 25 or 30 percent of it by “contributing” to the Democrat party.
You wait and see.
I can't wait until the big chandelier in the White House has fifty curly cue light bulbs and flickers during state dinners.
These same people who force me to use toxic bulbs that supposedly save electricity want me to buy an electric car. IIIIIDEEEOOOOTS!
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