Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Time for a black market in incandescent bulbs?
1 posted on 09/01/2010 8:05:12 AM PDT by markomalley
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021 next last
To: steelyourfaith

ping


2 posted on 09/01/2010 8:05:40 AM PDT by markomalley (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: markomalley

Time to get rid of flush toilets too. Wastes too much water.


3 posted on 09/01/2010 8:07:04 AM PDT by Right Brother
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: markomalley

What would Thomas Edison say?


4 posted on 09/01/2010 8:07:24 AM PDT by downtownconservative (Imam Obama has now noticed he has no clothes. His response? "That infidel Bush stole my clothes".)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: markomalley
And this is the Left that is opposed to "reactionaries who want to go back to the Middle Ages?"

Oh wait. They're for "gay marriage." I guess that keeps them from being reactionaries.

5 posted on 09/01/2010 8:08:46 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Hanistarot LaShem 'Eloqeynu; vehaniglot lanu ulevaneynu `ad-`olam la`asot 'et-kol-divrey HaTorah!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: markomalley
Europe estimates the switch will save as much energy as Romania consumes in an average year and remove around 15 million tons of harmful emissions from the atmosphere.

And guaranteed employment for companies that specialize in hazmat cleanup of mercury from broken CFL bulbs.

6 posted on 09/01/2010 8:09:39 AM PDT by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: markomalley

Incandescents are being made illegal here as well, right?


8 posted on 09/01/2010 8:10:50 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: markomalley

Why not, they gave up bathing years ago.


9 posted on 09/01/2010 8:11:53 AM PDT by sniper63 (I am the leader of the TEA Party, I, myself am the leader of me, myself for I am the TEA Party!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: markomalley
The European Parliament said compact fluorescent, halogen, light-emitting diode or "improved incandescent" light bulbs will replace the conventional light bulb in the European Union.

I've replaced many of my day-to-day bulbs with halogens in a regular bulb mount. I love, love, love them. They're more expensive than regular bulbs (maybe $3 a bulb), but they have the advantages of regular incandescent bulbs (instant on, no flickering, can be dimmed) along with a whiter light. Their only real problem is that they seem to be hotter, so you have to be more careful about cheap lamp.

I just hope US laws don't outlaw them.

10 posted on 09/01/2010 8:13:24 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Gun control was originally to protect Klansmen from their victims. The basic reason hasn't changed.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: markomalley

Violent protesters will start throwing those mercury-laced florescent bulbs at riots. Then the govt will have to mount full-scale hazmat cleanups at the cost of millions of taxpayer dollars.

We need to rescind our laws banning the incandescent lightbulbs after November.


11 posted on 09/01/2010 8:15:17 AM PDT by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality: Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: markomalley
Heck, it's becoming increasingly difficult to find 100W bulbs here in the United States, nevermind overseas!
Yet another area where President 0bama wishes to interfere with everyday life.
13 posted on 09/01/2010 8:17:19 AM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: markomalley

The lights are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime


14 posted on 09/01/2010 8:17:43 AM PDT by tlb
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: markomalley

The evil, dangerous light bulb before tobacco? I’m not for a ban on tobacco, I’m just sayin’....


15 posted on 09/01/2010 8:20:46 AM PDT by luckymom (Forget the baby whales, save the baby humans.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: markomalley

The new fluorescent bulbs are hideous, don’t give much light and if broken are poisonous.

Someones making a killing on the new bulbs.


16 posted on 09/01/2010 8:21:16 AM PDT by sunmars
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: markomalley

It coming to here as well. Bush signed it into law when signed the energy bill in ‘06.


17 posted on 09/01/2010 8:22:13 AM PDT by Clyde5445 (Gov. Sarah Palin: :"You have to sacrifice to win. That's my philosophy in 6 words.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: markomalley

What to use for ovens and refrigerators?


21 posted on 09/01/2010 8:25:51 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: markomalley

this is about money.

there are no royalties for a regular light bulb. They are cheep to make.

Profits margins are too low.

BUT philips and GE make big bucks because they own the patents for their “new” lights. More expensive, royalties paid.

follow the money.


31 posted on 09/01/2010 8:41:46 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: markomalley

So what if CFLs are more energy efficient? I deserve the liberty to use whatever bulb I want, because I pay for the energy. I could even be using so-called green energy from my own solar panels to power my lighting, but the statists don’t care. If they can regulate this, then they can regulate everything.

I actually prefer CFLs, but there are some places where I use incandescent. The concept that incandescent bulbs are bad because they waste energy as heat is actually one of their advantages for certain applications. Incandescent bulbs also give off a distinctly different color of light, and they come on much faster in cold environments.

The statists would fight to the death to protect choice when it comes to sodomy or abortion, but they’ll deny us a lousy 100W bulb. And they wonder why some of us DETEST them!


34 posted on 09/01/2010 9:03:16 AM PDT by CitizenUSA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: markomalley

I can only hope that the white LED lights become commercially viable before our ban goes into place.

I love CFLs for their uses, but there are places where you need something better.


42 posted on 09/01/2010 9:55:07 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: markomalley
the enlightened european rulers can save even more electricity by exterminating their population.

they are doing that demographically though, so nevermind.

43 posted on 09/01/2010 10:05:20 AM PDT by mmercier (nitwits, communists and queers)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: markomalley

In another twenty years’ time, they’ll be saying “goodbye” to electricity.


45 posted on 09/01/2010 10:32:17 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021 next last

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson