[NormsRevenge]

Like a bunch of nuts on steroids,, They never rest,,

[relictele]

Thomas Edison to California: GET STUFFED!

[RebelBanker]

Are you SURE this wasn't from The Onion?

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

The state is going bankrupt, businesses and legal citizens are leaving in droves, and lawmakers are working on banning light bulbs. Marvelous.

[Ramius]

The new CF bulbs are much better than before, and they really do work well. I've put a bunch of them in my house in various places. And they're *very* economical.

As such, they'll gain in popularity and be used more and more without dumb laws like this. There are some places that an incandescent bulb is still the only real choice(dimmers, for example).

Dumb law.

[D.P.Roberts]

Follow the money.

[elkfersupper]

Secession of a state has been discussed on Free Republic as a solution to a number of problems.

It's always been presented as a voluntary effort.

Can the rest of us force California to secede?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

California may ban conventional lightbulbs by 2012

Geez o pete! Why?

Conventional light bulbs are going away on their own. I have gradually been replacing them in my house and so have other people. They sure make the light bill drop.

Just leave it alone.

[dirtboy]

"How Many Legislators Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb Act"

I would change it to "How Many Legislators are Dimbulbs Act".

[Dog Gone]

I'm looking forward to returning to California to visit my parents next Christmas and seeing all the fluorescent Christmas lights on the tree.

[ExtremeUnction]

..would ban incandescent light bulbs by 2012..

California and the world gone insane.

[BlazingArizona]

Why should this surprise anyone? Since the People's Republic banned new electrical generation years ago, it was only a matter of time before a matching ban on new usage.

[b4its2late]

Then on the east coast by 2017.....

[teenyelliott]

ban

I am SOOOOO tired of that word.

[muawiyah]

Very simply put if the fluorescent bulbs last 10 times longer than the incandescent, and sell at only 1/9 the rate of the incandescents, it'll take just a few years before they totally displace the incandescents.

The article says the 5% background sales level for the fluorescent bulbs could DOUBLE this year.

So, the elimination of the incandescent bulb can already be scheduled without the use of pesky nuisance laws as proposed by the Alpine gnome running California.

[ChildOfThe60s]

I just wish California would secede from the United States.

[ndt]

I'm not a fan of banning much of anything, preferring instead to let the market drive demand.

That said, LED lights are absolutely amazing. The amount of energy to be saved is incredible.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

A ban on white males by 2015, a ban on heteros by 2018 followed by a ban on flush toilets and indoor plumbing by 2020 and they'll have a paradise.

[Cicero]

You have to look around, because there are some cheapo energy saving bulbs out there that make everything look sickly. But if you get the right kind, they look pretty much like regular incandescent bulbs, and they only use a quarter of the power.

I have long since replaced every bulb in the house with GE spiral bulbs. In our area, at least, they are bringing out a new line of GE bulbs that are 13 watt instead of 15 watt (to replace a 60 watt bulb), and the local hardware store is selling the 15 watt bulbs for 99 cents apiece. You can't do better than that.

On the other hand, forcing people to use one product rather than another is just plain wrong. There are other ways to encourage their use rather than impose a probably unconstitutional law.

[Delta 21]

Does that mean this one too?

Longest burning Light Bulb in history.