Get over yourself you rightous piece of liberal statist crap. What the hell are you doing on this forum, siding with government intrusion into our lives?
If I want to waste money, it is my OWN damned business.
If the market wanted these turd lightbulbs, they would have made it on their own without government legislation.
It is morons like YOU who are responsible for this statist mess we are in covering everything from legislation against transfats and salt in the diet to the amount of water we can flush down our toilet.
Idiot. You think this is great because it is your pet thing, you have bought hook, line and sinker into the liberals running around screaming that we are running out of energy. I’ll bet you buy into the global warming crap too. It is people like YOU who invite our government to intrude into EVERY facet of our life.
Ok? Does THAT cover it?
Excellent!!! You are exactly right.
Normally I try not to get that worked up, especially over darned light bulbs. In this case (apart from the snide condescension) is is clearly the principle that irks me.
It is this caving into liberalism, allowing their premises to go unchallenged that is leading us down the road to ruin.
There have been tens of millions of deaths worldwide due to malaria and other insect-borne diseases since DDT was banned in the early Seventies, and DDT was banned on faulty premises with no evaluation of the risk/benefit aspect in much the same way incandescent lightbulbs were banned.
It is the same principle. Someone made the decision it was bad for us to have them based on global warming/peak energy/(INSERT YOUR FAVORITE LIBERAL REASON HERE) and is going to make them unavailable to Americans.
Yesterday it was DDT. Today it is lightbulbs. Tomorrow it may be trans-fats or salt, and the day after that it could well be cars/guns/whathaveyou.
I will apologize to the poster for my incivility, but the principle stands.