Posted on 07/23/2009 3:20:01 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Just 18% of adults think it’s the government’s job to tell Americans what kind of light bulb they use, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Seventy-two percent (72%) say it’s none of the government’s business, and 10% are not sure.
The federal government under an energy bill passed in 2007 is requiring consumers to dump incandescent bulbs, the ones we’ve used for well over a century, for more expensive incandescent ones. The plan is scheduled to go into effect over the next 10 years in the name of great energy efficiency.
Eighty-three percent (83%) of Republicans and 78% of adults not affiliated with either major political party say it’s not the government’s role to make Americans change their light bulbs. Among Democrats, 58% share that view, but 29% say it is the government’s job.
When asked who would do a better job of providing quality products for consumers, only 23% of Americans say government planners and managers. Fifty-nine percent (59%) have more confidence in companies hoping to make a profit. Nineteen percent (19%) aren’t sure.
Men have more faith in the private sector than women. Sixty-eight percent (68%) of those who work for a private company say businesses motivated by potential profit will do a better job of coming up with quality consumer products. Just 45% of government employees agree.
Seventy-four percent (74%) of Republicans and 67% of unaffiliateds give the edge to private companies, while Democrats are almost evenly divided over which would do a better job.
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You rock, seriously. THaat is my attitude as well.
Unfortunately they’re chocked full of mercury goodness. You’re supposed to take them to approved disposal centers after they pop...I wonder how often that happens. Landfills gonna be filling up with Mercury soon.
In my opinion the light quality just sucks compared to incandescents. I plan on hoarding the “real” lightbulbs before the ban goes into effect.
I was at Dollar Tree yesterday and they now have their version of those for $1.
ping!!
they make me sick,leaave us alone, we are Americans not
Mo_hamm_mads sheep..
GE bulbs are great. You can go to their website and check out the spectrum details. Got all for $1 or less or free.
I’ve never had a CFL blow, used them for years, but mostly in the warm months only.
Also have almost 50 incandescents, Rite-Aid was giving away GE’s free after rebate. I use them during heating season.
No significant difference in the spectrum, check the GE site.
I for one resent having the government force me to do courtesy flushes.
I’m pretty sure ours are GE, there is a painfully obvious difference in the spectrum especially when you first turn them on. They lack brightness and make you think one of the bulbs is out. Thankfully 1 has already died. There is quite simply no way I’m ever buying a CFL again, they are bad lightbulbs, I don’t care if I have to smuggle in my A15s from Mexico. Ounce bitten twice shy.
They last a lot longer and use less energy than their incandescent counterparts.
That is all well and good but you need to dispose of them as though they were hazardous waste BECAUSE THEY ARE -- LOADED WITH MERCURY AND DANGEROUS IF ONE BREAKS!!!!
I'll use the incandescents until they pry them from cold dead hands.
But the light bulb controversy is just a distraction, a diversionary tactic to get you off the real energy horror of "Cap & Trade" and the Marxist take-over of our health care system.
Write your elected representatives and let them know you DON'T SUPPORT any of this and throw in the light bulbs for good measure.
God help us.
It’s too late to change this one....
The mostly-Union factories have already closed up and moved 35,000+ to Mexico and China,(who knew so many people made LIGHT-BULBS!), because NO ONE in America wants the long-term liability for Mercury in America.
Chinese workers are already dying from Mercury exposure in the plants, and in 20 years, 60 minutes will be running tear-jerking episodes about how hundreds of billions of dollars are needed to clean all that mercury out of the landfills, because KIDS ARE DYING from it.
It’s like watching a train-wreck you just KNOW is going to happen, but are powerless to stop.
But hey, on the bright-side, a bunch of brainless Dems got to show some rabid enviros that they “CARE!” about the the scam that is Global Warming...
My brother installed some of thesee newfangled bulbs in my mother’s house. I replaced them with the incadescents. What annoyed me most about the new bulbs is that they would not turn on right away. You had to wait for them to “heat up or something.” Sorry, I like to flip the switch and have the light come on immediately.
I have one of those low flow toilets. I have to keep the plunger nearby at all times. Dang thing often takes several flushes plus a good plunge for the stuff to go down. So...someone tell me how that saves water????
You didn’t go to GE and check out their spectrum info. Nearly a 100% match. Light coming thru curtains is more of a spectrum change than swapping bulb types.
I have to physically feel the bulb in my home office to know which type I have installed.
And the great part is turn on delay is near zero, but is slightly noticeable in the 100W bulbs.
I got a bunch of 60W equiv. offbrand free after rebate from Lowe’s. They use 13W. Gave one to my parents at least two years ago, it’s still burning above the stove and that “night light” has 50%+ duty cycle.
Remember that if we protest to get out light bulbs back, we should also protest to get the other stuff these “helpful” people have taken away from us, like large capacity toilets!
Also remember that they have just whetted their apatite. They want to take away our tobacco, our foods they don’t approve of, the right to raise our children as we see fit, the right to have the health care we want, the right to be left alone, the right to have firearms and ammunition, the right to free speech, the right to be religious, etc., ad nauseum.
Don’t just be satisfied to stop them from taking more! Demand to have what they have taken away back! It’s yours, not theirs!
Do they also think it’s okay for their Doofus-in-Chief to blast the heat in the Oval Office, so he can grow orchids in there?
It is more than 72%! Guaranteed! 3/8” tubing so it takes 3 minutes to fill a soup pot, or 10 minutes to fill a bath tub to was the kiddies, solder that will not seal a plumbing joint anymore, a 1.3 gallon toilet tank that you have to flush more than once, shall I go on? California no spill gas cans that spill in one pouring more than I have spilled in my entire life. The people who passed this do not live in the real world.
I was using a 60W incandescent light bulb in a hood above the stove as a night light that was on 24/7. The life of the bulb about 1 month. The small area where the bulb is located could cause heat build up from the bulb it's self and shorten the bulb life. (My guess)
I was buying replacement bulbs at Walmart and purchased 2 fluorescent screw in bulbs. Cost $7.00 for two. The first bulb lasted 14 months leaving it on 24/7. Replaced it with the second bulb about 2 months ago.
When the second fluorescent burns out I will try a 15 to 25 watt incandescent to see how long they last, perhaps one of them will last longer than the 60 watt.
Do I like the light from the fluorescent? NO. Have I considered screw in fluorescents for other locations in the house? Yes, but I have not found other uses for them.
Of course they do, these same people live off the government - the same government who supports them financially, gives them housing (which includes free heat), food stamps, medical care, cars, phones, etc. etc. etc.!
I don’t care what their website says, I care what my eyes say. And my eyes say that every time I turn on the lights in the ceiling fan that’s half CFLs it doesn’t seem like they’re all lit, there’s a dimness that always makes me look up and check. Maybe the new ones are better, that doesn’t seem to be the general consensus when the topic comes up, most people seem less satisfied with the newer ones.
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