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Kiss your 100-watt lightbulb goodbye
San Jose Mercury News ^ | 1/1/11 | Tracy Seipel

Posted on 01/01/2011 6:48:26 PM PST by SmithL

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To: SmithL

What about putting a dual bulb in the fixture and using two fifty Watt bulbs??


61 posted on 01/01/2011 7:20:53 PM PST by EggsAckley ( There's an Ethiopian in the fuel supply!)
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To: SmithL
Good thing I don't live in Cali. I run 300 watt bulbs at different places around the house just for fun.


62 posted on 01/01/2011 7:21:57 PM PST by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: SmithL

Well....well, last business/person out of California will NOT have to TURN OUT THE LIGHTs...they’ll already be out!


63 posted on 01/01/2011 7:23:59 PM PST by goodnesswins (You deciding how to spend your health care $, thatÂ’s freedom. Govt deciding, thats a death panel)
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To: BunnySlippers

You can get incandescent light bulbs rated for 25,000 hours that are used by the hospitality industry. If you use them for an average of 7 hours a day they’ll burn out in just a little under 10 years and cost about a buck or less per bulb depending on how many you buy.

https://www.nathosp.com/product/25k19_c/standard_incandescent_light_bulbs

Once you stock up all you’ll have to do is watch out for the light bulb police who’ll be monitoring everyone who might be using those unauthorized, evil incandescents!


64 posted on 01/01/2011 7:25:52 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Nat Turner
Kiss your freedom goodbye too... or you can get smart and remarket the old 100 watt bulbs as “heat lamps” or “glow bulbs” LOL

I just read somewhere recently that Germany is using this approach.

65 posted on 01/01/2011 7:29:25 PM PST by Disambiguator (Political Correctness is mandatory stupidity.)
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To: SmithL; a fool in paradise
That gives me an ideer for my rap singer career nick:

Hunred Wott


66 posted on 01/01/2011 7:29:56 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: nascarnation
I should probably think about black marketing the stuff off.

Last time I looked at prices on Craigslist it was $20 for a 12 oz can.

67 posted on 01/01/2011 7:29:58 PM PST by Clay Moore (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left. Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: BunnySlippers

And the (Quartz) Halogen lamps run super hot. More potential for fire.


68 posted on 01/01/2011 7:30:02 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)
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To: Clay Moore

thanks

I paid less than 5 bucks a can IIRC

maybe one of my better investments, LOL


69 posted on 01/01/2011 7:32:08 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: Red Badger

nah, I’m thinking border-state car trunk entrepreneur. Oh, wait, Kalifornia has ag inspection stations, right? I guess they will extend the search to heat bulbs too.


70 posted on 01/01/2011 7:32:19 PM PST by NonValueAdded (Palin 2012: don't retreat, just reload)
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To: SmithL

Eventually the EPA will ban the CFL bulbs as too hazardous because of their mercury content.


71 posted on 01/01/2011 7:34:45 PM PST by The Great RJ (The Bill of Rights: Another bill members of Congress haven't read.)
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To: SmithL

Get rid of the 100W bulb the same time you pass the CA version of Cap and Trade. Gosh, I love living here.

As of today, we now have another 725 Laws on the books in CA. The idiots in Sacramento have some bad Sushi before bedtime and their Utopian Socialistic Dreams become Law the very next day.

Things that you would never have taken seriously and would have laughed out loud when you first heard them are now part of the everyday life of Californians.

I’m surrounded by complete and utter morons...


72 posted on 01/01/2011 7:38:26 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Happy New Year!)
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To: NonValueAdded

Can you imagine a guy in prison answering the question, “what you in for?” With “smuggling lightbulbs”?...........


73 posted on 01/01/2011 7:40:54 PM PST by Red Badger (Whenever these vermin call you an 'idiot', you can be sure that you are doing to something right.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Ten years ago, if someone told me that lightbulbs would be made illegal and marijuana would not be, I’d have said they were nuts......


74 posted on 01/01/2011 7:44:47 PM PST by Red Badger (Whenever these vermin call you an 'idiot', you can be sure that you are doing to something right.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Ten years ago, if someone told me that lightbulbs would be made illegal and marijuana would not be, I’d have said they were nuts......


75 posted on 01/01/2011 7:46:14 PM PST by Red Badger (Whenever these vermin call you an 'idiot', you can be sure that you are doing to something right.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Ten years ago, if someone told me that lightbulbs would be made illegal and marijuana would not be, I’d have said they were nuts......


76 posted on 01/01/2011 7:47:14 PM PST by Red Badger (Whenever these vermin call you an 'idiot', you can be sure that you are doing to something right.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Thanks for the link. It will serve me well as I plan to stock up.


77 posted on 01/01/2011 7:48:05 PM PST by rightly_dividing (1 Cor. 15:1-4)
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To: SmithL; a fool in paradise

"Chinese Man Has Eaten 1,500 Light Bulbs Over 42 Years"

78 posted on 01/01/2011 7:48:58 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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79 posted on 01/01/2011 7:51:01 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: SmithL

LOL! Son’s girlfriend bought me a couple of packages of 100w and75w bulbs for Christmas - all wrapped up in pretty Christmas paper! She knows I’m hoarding the incandescent bulbs. I had only bought 60w, but now I have a good selection. I’ll continue to buy more. I’ll make darned sure I don’t have to use those twisty bulbs!


80 posted on 01/01/2011 7:51:33 PM PST by sneakers
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