[mkleesma]

“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”

Last summer I did just that - Home Depot had 16-packs of 60W and 100W bulbs on sale for $1.99. I bought ten packs of each. That ought to keep me nicely incandescent for quite a few years.

Later that day, and all 4 skids of bulbs were gone.

[Utah Binger]

I realize this is not for everyone, however we are saving $250-300 monthly in our museum using this dimmable par 38 replacement. Soon the prices will plummet on all types of LED's including soft white for 100 watt replacements. And they last forever we are told. They are expensive now but I guarantee the market will take care of that.

If I was 25 again I would be going door to door selling these products. And if some bright American actually started manufacturing the product in America......well that's a topic foe another time.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

If you are buying 100W bulbs right now, you absolutely must check on the “Lumens” (brightness) rating on the front of the box. The *minimum* Lumens for a 100W bulb should be no less than 1500, and typically can be found as high as 1650 or more.

But some manufacturers are selling 100W bulbs with as little as 950 Lumens, which is about as bright as a 60W bulb. In other words, a rip off.

Those who have already laid up a store of 100W bulbs would be well advised to look at their boxes. If they are rated less than 1500, you might as well throw them out and get new ones, because they are just taking up space.

Oddly enough, some of the big, name brand manufacturers are the worst abusers in this, and “no name” Mexican bulbs are often a lot better. Yes, they may not last as long as well made American bulbs, but if they don’t do what they are supposed to, it doesn’t matter how well they are made.

[Chewbarkah]

Next years’ story: In a brilliant move to combat rampant bulb-crime AND increase employment, Obama’s new BEA (Bulb Enforcement Agency, headed by “Aunt Bea” Otoomi) will spend half its multi-billion dollar budget on Operation Dark & Dubious, paying out-of-work drug smugglers to steal American incandescents and walk them back to Mexico. The other half of the budget will go to loan guarantees to boost the DNC’s production of dim bulbs.

[fini]

If you need some light bulbs, look at this site: https://www.nathosp.com/product/25k19_c/standard_incandescent_light_bulbs

When you look at the life span they are a great value and think of the space you'll save, because they last over ten times as long a "double life" bulb. We are using them in my home and give off the same light that our old General Electrics give. After shipping they are about $1.25 a piece but with a 25,000 hour life span, you'll be throwing away the lamp before the bulb goes bad.

I like saving money and I like seeing, so we use a mix of bulbs in our house. For general lighting we use CFLs. For reading and detail work (shaving), we use incandescent bulbs

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Repackage them as 100 Watt heating elements with this warning:

WARNING: It is a violation of Federal law to use this 100 Watt heating element, formerly known as a 100 watt light bulb, as a light bulb!

[bmwcyle]

Congress is the problem and Congress needs cleaning.

[Vaduz]

Will Obamacare cover mercury poisoning?.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

What’s the metric equivalent of 100 watts? Perhaps they can just relabel the incandescents to confuse the green police.

[Nowhere Man]

Isn’t it ironic that we live in a country where one can choose to kill their unborn child, yet we do not have a choice in toilets and light bulbs we can buy? It’s like the old picture puzzle in “Highlights” magazine when I was a kid, “what’s wrong with this picture?” As Yakoff Smirnoff says, “what a country!”

[Elsie]

A 60 and a 40 add up to 100.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

There are more regulations on how to dispose of the new bulbs than common sense.The regular ole 100 watters are at dollar general.Get them when you can.But then again after Obama is done we won’t have electric one way or another so who cares?