[PissAndVinegar]

I really hope this is an 'across the board' banning of incandescents }:-)

Just so I can watch all the car manufactures try to figure out how to retrofit (or even make) compact flourescent that are bright enough and actually fit into the billion little places where incandescent bulbs are in a car!

They wouldn't make such a stupid bill without recoginizing the non-household uses if incandescent, would they?

[Mo1]

They want to ban light bulbs now??

Where do they find these people?

[nuke rocketeer]

Looks like there will be an alternate income stream for the drug smugglers in the People's Republik of Kalifornia. Next on the list:

BUTTER

[antiRepublicrat]

No spanking, no incandescents, California is on a roll this year.

What do we do for lights where instant-on is needed (sorry, LEDs aren't there yet)? What do we do for dimmer lights? What do we do for installations where you WANT the heat?

Go ahead, tell your daughter she has to run her Easy Bake Oven off of a 14W CF bulb.

[spokeshave]

And what about that historic lamp thats still burning at the Oakland fire station....an original DeFlemming or somesuch from the 1800's.....is Arnie and the environazis going to extinguish this flame of innovation?

[spokeshave]

And what about that historic lamp thats still burning at the Oakland fire station....an original DeFlemming or somesuch from the 1800's.....is Arnie and the environazis going to extinguish this flame of innovation?

[FlatLandBeer]

Umm maybe a good job to do in my retirement would be to smuggle light bulbs and shower heads to California.

[Leg Olam]

If I install CFBs in my house and my neigbor doesn't can I sue him for 'second-hand light'?

Really, California is just too weird...

[Teacher317]

The CFL is a great idea, and a product that should be encouraged by everyone... but making laws to force us to buy a better product is not a good use of government... and is a really bad habit for them to get hooked on.

Unfortunately, we're at least halfway down that little slippery slope already.

[OKIEDOC]

The Kalifornia legislature is beyond stupid.

I met a representative at the beach here in San Diego and God please forgive me but this gals brain was made of
ex Valley Girl, Acid and Prozac all rolled into one and stuffed between two stupid looking ears.

Her companion wasn't much brighter with goofy ideas on how Kalifornians should live their lives.

The question is not whether Kalifornia will survive but when it goes down hard will it take good states like Texas and Oklahoma with it into the cesspool of mediocrity.

[longtermmemmory]

No, consumers go for the light that is pleasing and not that harsh flourescent bulb.

The compacts are only good for industrial use, for the home it is still incandecent.

What next light bulb smuggling for the rich people?

What will photographers do?

What happens when LED lights hit the market?

Is there a Compact Florecent bulb factory in the state?

[AZhardliner]

Where do I apply to be a bulb policeman?

[RFH]

I can get a 4-pack of light bulbs at the 99-cent store. Back in 2000, an article in Slate (http://www.slate.com/id/88871/) showed how you would save a whopping $26 in 3 1/2 years by changing out all your incandescent bulbs to fluorescent. That's about $7.50 a year - less than the price for a movie ticket.

California legislators - please leave me alone!

[maine-iac7]

It's the Socialist way - force everyone to comply. They don't recognize the FREE Market system, aka Capitalism.

Freedom of choice, if left to operate, will take care of the problem without making criminals of the non-compliers...or having one more government intrusion into every room in our house.

A few years ago, these new bulbs were cost-inhibitive - around $8 per. AS more and more people have bought them, the price has come down to a reasonable level and more and more are switching.

I hate the ugly look of the things but have them throughout my house - on a fixed income, I need to save every penny I can. MY CHOICE.

The price will continue to fall, left to the FREE market system. Make a law, per the Socialist system, and the price will be anything the producers want -

For example: The FREE market system is working, slowly but picking up steam, with the distribution of organic foods - witness the larger and larger sections for organic goods and products in the super-super markets. Are they doing it because they are concerned about our health?

He*l no. They are doing it to stop the money-bleed from their stores as more and more consumers are going organic. Are the majority of consumers switching to organics to save the world? He*l no. They are doing it for their health.

It called FREEDOM of choice - and it drives the FREE market place.

This proposed law is just one more drip=drip-drip erosion of our individual rights. These are the people who passed the water restrictions on our toilets, for example. So now people have to flush twice to do the job. Yeah, that works well.

An aside: The sponsor of this 'lightbulb' act, Lloyd Levine, democrat (that was a given, huh?) also sponsored the "K-12 Pro-Homosexual School Act"

[OB1kNOb]

What a bunch of dim bulbs. ;-)

[Xenalyte]

Actually, Lloyd, I don't buy fluorescent bulbs for living space because I don't want my home to look like an office.

[anjinsan1]

This is just the latest here in CA... you can't spank you brats,or buy a 15 round magazine and now light bulbs.

[reagan_fanatic]

I've got CFLs throughout my house. If you look around, you can find ones (I use the G.E. brand) that come on instantaneously and have a more natural color than the flourescents of old.

Having said that - have the politicians in CA gone completely mad? The movement towards CFLs will progress quite nicely without a bunch of self-inflated morons legislating us to death.

[zeugma]

I'm guessing noone who proposes this listens to AM or shortwave radio.

[GingisK]

I've had two of those spiral tubes lamps catch on fire in my house. They aren't ready for prime time.