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Thanks freespirited. The Magic Wand in the Waving Hand again succeeds at failure.

The last major GE factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs in the United States is closing... The remaining 200 workers at the plant here will lose their jobs... political ~~and business~~ leaders have held out the promise that American advances, particularly in green technology, might stem the decades-long decline in U.S. manufacturing jobs... What made the plant here vulnerable is, in part, a 2007 energy conservation measure passed by Congress that set standards essentially banning ordinary incandescents by 2014. The law will force millions of American households to switch to more efficient bulbs... Rather than setting off a boom in the U.S. manufacture of replacement lights, the leading replacement lights are compact fluorescents, or CFLs, which are made almost entirely overseas, mostly in China.