[Cincinatus' Wife]

Gov. Rick Perry: Al Gore's "Gone To Hell"

[BunnySlippers]

Why the heck did George Bush ever sign it in the first place?

[The_Victor]

Texans like to think we're forward-looking folks, eager to embrace the newer and better.

Embracing newer and better does not require a law declaring what newer and better is.

[Haiku Guy]

The law takes effect next year and offers the promise of significant savings in energy consumption with no overly detrimental impact on quality of life (or quality of light, for that matter).

Who is to say what constitutes an overly detrimental impact on quality of life or light?

It seems that this decision could best be made by the individual consumer. If CFLs are so wonderful, they will drive the incandescents out of the market. This has happened over and over again in the free market. Automobiles completely displaced horse and buggy, for instance. Typewriters disappeared from the marketplace without any government intervention.

People are able to decide what is best for them, if they are allowed.

[pepperdog]

Ya know what I'd like to see? A government that could admit it made a big mistake and would rescind some of these stupid laws. If it's better and saves money the consumer will go for it. Get out of our lives with your constant attention to minutiae. We have really big problems that need immediate attention and what do we get...directions on light bulbs!

[JRandomFreeper]

Once again, the libs have it upside down. The real question is: "What in Art 1, Sec 8 of the Constitution gives Congress the power to regulate light bulbs?" The answer, of course, is nothing.

Unconstitutional on it's face.

/johnny

[Zeppo]

The law takes effect next year and offers the promise of significant savings in energy consumption with no overly detrimental impact on quality of life (or quality of light, for that matter).

Typical lying leftist tactic - start with a false assertion, with no supporting evidence for your claims, and wilfully ignore the counter evidence, and then work off of your flawed assertion to build the faulty case for your Socialist utopian micromanagement of peoples' lives.

We've been through this before - just look at the low-flow toilet debacle for one example (millions of plumbers thank you for the pipe-unclogging business opportunities you've given them, but toilet owners are less satisfied). Or look at the folly of mandating the mixture of ethanol or MTBE into gasoline (and the subsequent starvation of low-income people around the world and/or the water pollution it caused). And so on...

[jospehm20]

Austin American Snakeskin up to the same old.

[SharpRightTurn]

“whether a state can use this kind of legislation as a subterfuge around federal law.”

These pointy-headed editors need to read the constitution.

The important question is when will the states insist that the Federales stop misusing the interstate commerce clause and general welfare clause to unconstitutionally expand federal government power.

Screw D.C. Return power to the states, where it belongs.

I anticipate that Gov. GoodHair will sign the bill, since he is considering running for president. Were he not a potential candidate and not running for another office, I would have my doubts.

[Iron Munro]

Stock up now - still available and still only 25¢ to 35¢ each - sometimes less.

There is talk of republicans repealing HB 2510 but they cannot be trusted on anything once they get elected.

[shield]

Good for Rick Perry....

[Buckeye McFrog]

a 100W bulb will make a helluva prop for him to wave around during stump speeches

[lighthouse10]

According to the Governor’s office,
Governor Rick Perry has decided to sign Bill allowing the light bulbs in Texas
http://freedomlightbulb.blogspot.com/
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