Posted on 11/08/2010 9:12:08 AM PST by jazusamo
The energy-saving bulbs are garbage and danerous. If this joker, voted for them, he’s not anyone I want in a chairmanship. How about you?
Time for We The People to speak up.
Time to do away with seniority appointments to these committees. The US house is not a union and shouldn’t run like one.
They better not extend it to outdoor lights. Those CFL bulbs that are supposed to replace the old Halogen bulbs do not fit in the outdoor motion lights that I have. If you do use them you have to take the bulb cover sleeves off.
I better start hoarding ‘em. The indoor CFLs don’t bother me but I’m going LED is soon as they come down in price.
Check to see how many shares of GE stock Upton holds.
Well, It looks like Ron Paul has enough seniority to get the chair of the Federal Reserve oversight committee
Thanks for posting. Get this philosophically-impaired POS RINO out of there.
Life, liberty and the pursuit and destruction of totalitarians.
Upton is a RINO of the worst kind.
Seems sensible that the chair of the ENERGY committee should come from a state that has a major interest in energy production..
Unbelievable.
I can assure Upton and Harman that I have a goodly supply of incandescent light bulbs in my garage. Enough, in fact to last me the rest of my life. I have no intention to install those little fluorescent bulbs and end up having to use a flashlight to do my reading. To hell with both of them and those who support their radical ideas.
******* “Seems sensible that the chair of the ENERGY committee should come from a state that has a major interest in energy production..” *****
Yep
Preferably a Texan
TT
So many errors, so little time.
“and requires that light bulbs be at least three times as efficient as today’s 100-watt incandescent bulb by 2020,” — it used to be we passed laws which controlled what people did to other people. Now we are passing laws based on wishes, in the hopes that by SAYING something in a law, we can make it so. I wonder why they didn’t just pass a law saying that by 2020 cancer would be wiped out, we would have world peace, and everybody would have a unicorn in their garage.
Also, the incandescent bulb is NOT the same technology as the original. There have been improvements in the sealing technology, in the type of gases used, and the metal used. And they are not only 10% efficient. And the heat is only a “loss” if you aren’t already heating your house.
Further, they are a lot cheaper and less energy-burdensome to manufacture than the new bulbs. And also, who CARES. Some people like the color of the light given off by incandescents, and can afford to spend more money on their energy, and they should be allowed to do so — government isn’t my mother, nagging me to do the right thing.
The CFLs also don’t work well outside, especially in colder climates. There are new technologies on the way, but this bill will actually SLOW THEM DOWN, because manufacturers have to find a way to make millions of SOMETHING right now that meet the law, and the only easily-manufactured possibility is the stupid CFLs. If we allowed incandescents to die a natural death, we’d replace them with LEDs in a few years.
And I say all this as a person who has replaced most of my lights with CFLs, who uses LEDs and LCD flatpannel nightlights for most of my other lighting needs, and who owns TWO priuses to cut down my energy use.
I’m sick and tired of government telling us all how to live our lives.
This should be the job-killer. CFLs are junk based on junk science. If nanny-staters want to regulate our light bulbs, they would have been better off to wait for the development ofthe LED lights - much better technology and saves tons of energy.
But, that's beside the point. I don't want ANY nanny-staters in ANY "leadership" position, regardless of party affiliation!!
Time to repeal this bill too. Shine the lights on abuse and corruption.
Pray for America
That's a really good question. If it is unconstitutional for Congress to force us to buy or have health insurance, how is it constitutional for them to tell us what kind of light bulbs we can use? By the same token, how can they legislate that we can only purchase low-flow toilets??
IMO, not enough people are upset enough to challenge these "laws". When the actual ban goes into effect and enough people are forced to purchase CFLs, I think we will see some lawsuits at that time. In the meantime, I am hoarding incandescents!!
If HR1 isn’t the repeal of this idiotic light bulb ban I’ll want to know why.
***The energy-saving bulbs are garbage and danerous.***
I put a $4.00 CFL light in a hard to get to socket. Flicker, flicker , pop! It lasted exactly THIRTY DAYS!
I could have bought FOUR BOXES (16 count) of regular bulbs on sale for $4.00, and they would have lasted about eight years.
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