This is the unaltered graphic from Livermore Labs....
And this is my analysis of the government issued data on energy savings by using CFL bulbs overlaid on it...
Posted on 06/02/2011 4:41:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON--America doesn't usually have shortages. Consumers as a rule can find what they want to buy at stores or online. But in 212, days, on January 1, 2012, Americans won't be able to buy 100-watt incandescent light bulbs, the kind Thomas Edison invented and the only kind many of us know-and prefer.
That's because incandescent light bulbs are being phased out by wattage over a two-year period, starting January 2012. The 100-watt bulb will be the first to be outlawed, by act of Congress, followed by 75-watt bulbs in January 2013, and 60- and 40-watt bulbs in January 2014.
So consumers who want to stock up have seven months to buy 100-watt bulbs, 19 months to buy 75-watt bulbs, and 31 months to buy 60- and 40-watt bulbs.
The legislation outlawing the 130-year old light bulb was introduced in 2007 by then-Representative Jane Harman, a California Democrat who resigned in February, and Representative Fred Upton, a Michigan Republican. The bill was rolled into the Energy Independence and Security Act, signed by President George W. Bush in December 2007.
The reason for ending the use of incandescent bulbs is to save energy. They burn more electricity than do several newer types of bulbs.
Mr. Upton is now chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. While lobbying among Republicans for the position, he promised to try to repeal the section of the 2007 energy bill that prohibits incandescent bulbs.
"We have heard the grass roots loud and clear, and will have a hearing early next Congress," he said last December. "The last thing we wanted to do was infringe upon personal liberties - and this has been a good lesson that Congress does not always know best."
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“... and this has been a good lesson that Congress does not always know best.”
Well, Duh!
LED bulbs will be great once the price drops. CFL bulbs are just idiocy.
Freakin Morons
This is the unaltered graphic from Livermore Labs....
And this is my analysis of the government issued data on energy savings by using CFL bulbs overlaid on it...
Congress made money from this law.
There is no other reason.
It is like CAP AND TRADE.
Secret deals among the elite in US Congress.
RE: CFL bulbs are just idiocy.
The big question is, if this is so, why are they being foisted upon Americans, BY LAW?
Truly when Congress ( especially a Democratic Congress ) is in session, I just get nervous and begin thinking to myself -— wht kookie idea will they think of next and what lifestyle of mine will be made illegal next?
And as always known the replacement bulbs can’t be put into the trash because they contain mercury. Theye is also a large increase of health problems in countries that produce them. Bottom line is safe energy and kill people or not.
Personal pet peeve; this is bullsh1t.
This, and the fact that the dishwasher detergent is now crap-by-government-mandate.
Bullsh1t.
I agree, light bulb should not be mandated by law. Same deal with toilets. CFLs actually turn your house into a toxic waste site if broken.
Congress and the central socialist government: keep you damned noses out of what small speck remains of US manufacturing and out of our lives!
You have been so busy redesigning our cars and toilets you have failed to do what many have elected you to do: decimate the DC monster.
One fact I’ve discovered is that when you bloviating idiots are in session the stock market slides. It does much better when you crawl back into your DC area digs.
I assume you’ve seen the discussions here about adding about 1/4 tsp of real TSP per dishwasher load?
Black market light bulbs - who would have ever thought?
It was RINO Bush who signed this crap into law in the first place.
CFL's in the hands of multiple flash mob's...I don't want to even think about it...Cloward and Piven might though.
just gotta do what a company over in germany did after incandescents were banned in the eu.. rebrand them as 100watt incandescent heat sources.
seems pretty reasonable, as the big complaint from the greenies is that 90%+ of the energy used is emitted as heat.
My local (pro-socialist) paper just ran a lengthy article explaining that congress didn’t actually set out to outlaw incandescants - they just defined energy standards (for our own benefit of course).
And it just happens that the lowly incandescant doesn’t meet those standards.
Who knew?
Representative Fred Upton: “The last thing we wanted to do was infringe upon personal liberties”
That’s why he introduced a bill that does that very thing. And that is why Congress has been eroding personal liberty year in and year out since the days of Woodrow wilson.
By the time Congress got around to worrying about lightbulbs MOST residential use was in fluorescent lights as well.
The error in your thinking is that residential usage consists of mostly lighting. Actually it's heating, cooling and cooking. Lighting usage is negligible!
By the time Congress got around to worrying about lightbulbs MOST residential use was in fluorescent lights as well.
The error in your thinking is that residential usage consists of mostly lighting. Actually it's heating, cooling and cooking. Lighting usage is negligible!
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