Posted on 12/02/2011 11:37:19 PM PST by george76
Include me among those crazed Americans who can’t walk into Home Depot, Target or my local grocery store right now without wanting to grab a king-sized shopping cart and stuff it to the gunwales with 100-watt incandescent light bulbs.
Maybe it’s the sheer thrill of buying bulbs that in just a month, as of Jan. 1, 2012, will be banned for sale in America. What fun, in this incandescent twilight, to acquire legally what the federal government will soon treat as contraband. Or maybe it’s that gut sense that with the dollar teetering, those beloved old 100-watt bulbs will at least provide a decent store of value, even if all I do is use them to read by for the rest of my life.
First the 100-watt incandescents will vanish from the shelves. Then the 75-watt, the 60-watt and 40-watt...
Presumably, federal authorities will now be spending US tax dollars (excuse me — “creating jobs”) to deploy light-bulb cops.
For decades, America has been the world’s beacon of freedom. Yet here we are, wards of the nanny state, with politicians dictating that even that prime symbol of American ingenuity, Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb, shall be regulated into oblivion. All this has been ably exposed as an act of crony capitalism, designed to enrich manufacturers who prefer to sell pricier light bulbs that a lot of Americans, if free to choose, prefer not to buy.
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Mine isn't much better, the only name I could come up with for FR was goat granny and that took about an hour...
Have a Merry Christmas and healthy New Year..GG
I am careful with the heat lamp, also it’s a high headboard. Actually, it helps dry my hair faster after I set the curlers and then get in bed to read. There are some CFLs that are supposed to be like natural daylight, maryz you might try them. Also it saves money to put them in hall lights, the corners of rooms where you don’t sit to read and near doorways or in bathrooms where you don’t spend much time.
As I understand it, all fluorescent lights are hard on the eyes because their light isn't continuous -- it's rapid flashes, too rapid to be aware of but nonetheless with an effect on the eyes. I grant it's likely some people are more sensitive to it than others.
Hey Native Texan! If your son & company end up starting that business, will you please send me a link or order info?
I sure will! It is looking like a go at this point. Will keep you informed.
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