Posted on 07/12/2011 7:54:52 AM PDT by Slyscribe
The lighting industry largely backed a 2007 move to phase out incandescent light bulbs. But amid a consumer and political backlash, that support seems far more tepid now.
The House planned to vote Tuesday on a bill by Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, to repeal parts of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act. Those sections didn't ban incandescents explicitly, but set efficiency standards that they can't meet. The 100-watt bulb phases out Jan. 1.
General Electric (GE) and Royal Philips Electronics (PHG), two of the biggest light bulb producers, helped Congress develop the de facto incandescent ban.
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Biggies like GE liked the idea of banishing a product they produced for 17¢ and sold for 30¢ in favor of one they bought from China for $1.25 and sold for $6.50
But it's still there.
What an arrogant POS.
If I choose to convert all of my money into $1 bills, pile them all in the front yard, and burn them..... that's my decision.
CFLs have their place, and I use them in a couple of locations. I prefer incandescents for several reasons, not the least of which is that they best fit my usage patterns (off and on, all the time, in places like bedrooms and bathrooms).
GE, huh? You mean Jeff Immelt's GE? Jeff Immelt who is now Obama's pet poodle and who gorges themselves at the government trough and pays NO taxes? That GE?
I’ve got a question: If consumers can sue ciggie manufacturers for damages, why can’t consumers sue CF manufacturers? CFs still contain mercury, don’t they? Where’s a shyster when ya need one...
Can you say class action, boys and girls? I knew you could :)
Boycott GE and Philips, regardless of the outcome.
In the meantime, maybe consumers should just sue them into the poorhouse...
In the meantime, America’s incandescent light bulb factories were shut down. This wasn’t due to free trade (it never is) — our government was to blame (it always is).
All it takes is one breath from a broken CFL to bring down 2 companies.
Maybe we can find a liberal to take one for the team.
In the meantime. China will make sure that all the deformed child victims of Mad Hatters Disease from the manufacturing of CFLs are never found by the Red Cross.
I have cases of those evil incandescents.
Still, they are now near impossible to find on shelves these days.
But! You can purchase a 95 watt bulb, of which, I have cases of those as well.
Yep...G.E. shut down their incandescent plants in the USA and opened their new CFL bulb plants....in China.
I guess the incandescent isn’t profitable any more so why not just legislate them out of existence?
Re:Chu. Why should people be allowed to waste their own money when government can do the job much more efficiently and on an unimaginably large scale?
This is the 55MPH Speed Limit issue of our time. If you stand in the way of the public you are gonna get run over.
This is the same thing that happens on a lot of green issues.
Industries aid the govt in coming up with the regs that will increase their revenues. Just as long as they have no unregulated competition..the costs just get passed along.
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