ARE OUTLAWED, ONLY OUTLAWS WILL HAVE
Posted on 04/24/2009 5:32:13 AM PDT by reaganaut1
TUNBRIDGE WELLS, England — On a quaint lane called Camden Street, the sidewalk easel stands out for its apocalyptic tone: “100-WATT BULBS IN STOCK. (FOR HOW LONG WE DO NOT KNOW)”
“Let some government official come in and tell me I can’t sell these,” Jonathan Wright, who has owned Classic Lighting for 40 years, said defiantly as he surveyed his warren of upscale light fixtures and shelves filled with neatly stacked bulbs. “I’ll find them wherever I can get them and sell them for whatever they cost. People are buying in bulk because they want them.”
Mr. Wright says that in the last two months he has sold 3,000 of the 100-watt bulbs — the traditional mainstay of British light fixtures — more than 30 times the usual. People are buying 10 at a time, the limit per customer, even though their price is nearly 50 percent higher than it was a year ago.
Mr. Wright’s store is on the front lines of resistance to controversial global efforts to end the era of energy-gobbling incandescent light bulbs by phasing out their sale to encourage (or in Mr. Wright’s view, force) people to turn to more efficient compact fluorescents.
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Countries like Australia, Canada, the United States and the European Union nations have drafted varying plans to ban or restrict the sale of incandescent bulbs in the next few years. In the United States, the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. effectively bans the sale of almost all incandescent bulbs by 2014, although last year Representative Michele Bachman, a Minnesota Republican, introduced the Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act, a bill that would overturn it.
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I’ve already started stock piling lightbulbs with a goal of having a lifetime supply by 2014. I’m still ticked my toilet doesn’t have enough water, now they pull this stunt.
Coming to a town near you in the very near future.
(I’ve stashed a few cases...come ‘n’ git me, coppers!!!)
When incandescent lights are outlawed, only outlaws will have incandescent lights.
; )
That won’t fit on the bumper sticker!
A few months ago, I tried to use a compact fluorescent bulb in the lamp that sits next to my computer. After a few hours of sitting in its light, my eyes began to itch, get watery and turn red. After a couple of days of enduring this, I went back to an incandescent bulb and have been fine since then. I will never again use a compact fluorescent bulb. End of story.
The government should not be in the business of mandating the purchase of products that have adverse effects on consumers.
Oh, and life should be fair.
I know I’m stocking up.
I have a question.......
All those teeny tiny little lights that light up all over my computer system, there are dozens of them,
on plugged in memory stick, on PC tower, on-switch of monitor, row of them on the cable modem, a row of them on the router, the telephone, the printer, the scanner, the speakers, I could go on and on.
What kind of bulbs are they? Will they be outlawed along with the regular light bulbs or are they going to make teeny tiny little fluorescent bulbs for them too?
Me, too.
Wonder if she'd make a good running mate for Sarah Palin in '12?
A year ago, I tried 6 CF lights in my basement. The goofball kids always leave the lights on, so I figured it might save me from having to go down and change them all the time.
Bulbs lasted about a month. I didn’t realize it at the time, but CF’s can’t be put on lamps with dimmer switches.
Does that mean in the UK, dimmer switches are a residual casualty of this ordeal?
Those are LEDs (light emitting diodes). Companies are working on producing those sorts of lights for all purposes, I believe. I’d be willing to try them, but the compact fluorescents have failed my test.
Those tiny lights on computers, modems etc. are LED (light emitting diodes)that are even more efficient than CFL bulbs and DO NOT contain hazardous mercury. Larger LEDs that could illuminate your home are starting to be available.
Hmmm, I’ve never heard of of the dimmer switch problem. Of course, here in the U.S., we’ve got a dimmer switch problem, too: we made the switch from dim to dimmer last November...
Our power bill is down more than $50 per month.
It’s Mad Max
ARE OUTLAWED, ONLY OUTLAWS WILL HAVE
A tad pricey, though.
Our house is only 20 percent incandescent at this point. We went with “warm” fluorescent floods where ever we could. The take 30 seconds or so to make their full output, but other than that, they are fine.
I get mine every payday and more when they are on sale; not so much anymore though. I hate those florescent things, they give me headaches. When and if the house ever sells, I plan on taking my good lightbulbs and leaving the new owner with those silly ones.
LOL!
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