Are they still climing the nonexistent authority to ban or restrict this product, and just CHOOSING not to do so (yet)?
Are they still climing the nonexistent authority to ban or restrict this product, and just CHOOSING not to do so (yet)?
Except of course GE has moved off shore and closed it’s incandescent factory in the US (with the exception of light bulbs that meet the EPA standards set by the 2007 law). You cannot find a 100W incandescent save for the multi wattage version ( which I use proudly). This is one of those that looks pretty but is nothing more than sound and fury signifying nothing.
Not to look a Gift Horse in the mouth, but a PERMANENT cancellation of this silly regulation would have been far more reassuring.
yay. The Democrats win the lottery, and the Republicans got the “moral victory” of getting the spare change the Democrats took from us given back. meh.
At almost the same time, the Republicans gave away both the 4th Amendment and Posse Comitatus. So at least we can have incandescent light bulbs in our homes as soldiers break through our doors and keep us in detention without arrest, indictment or trial. At least for what, another year?
I bet they use mercury bulbs in the detention centers, anyway.
Face it, that no matter the intentions of W. Bush, almost all the Patriot Act has been used for is to oppress honest American citizens, not fight terrorists. At this rate, living under Sharia Law will look freer than living in secular America.
And the Republicans are showing no signs of stopping anything the Democrats want to do, because the leadership AGREES with everything the Democrats are doing.
This is irrelevant. The US factories that used to manufacture them have been shut down for years. Only 2nd and 3rd tier overseas manufacturers actually manufacture incandescent bulbs anymore, and quality and reliability have plummeted.
Republicans didn’t win anything here.
Republicans were the source of this stupidity. As CrippleCreek points out for those in the know, Fred Upton, R-MI, was the sponsor of the legislation that banned 100W incandescent light bulbs from sale in the US.
Upton, moron that he is, attempted to reverse the ban this year, when it became abundantly clear that voters were furious about this meddling nonsense. He failed.
So now we’re left with the results of a law that people hold in contempt.
This is why the Republicans should be run out of DC at bayonet point... directly following the Democrats.
Figures. I just stocked up.
The mechanisms are still in place. They might not enforce it on January 1, but it's coming. Once again the only victories The Stupid Party wins against The Evil Party are short term and meaningless.
What about vitamins? Are they not going to be banned after the 1st?
As well they should. Too many times they forget We the People are their bosses.
I don't want the mercury bulbs in my house.
The democrats try to ban mercury in coal fired generating plants, but mandate mercury in light bulbs.
And a single volcano puts more mercury into the environment than all other sources combined. Go figure.
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I read somewhere that a survivalist insulated his home with thousands of 100W lamp bulbs tucked in his walls and attic.....its the vacuum thingy for insulation.
crap- i just bought a couple of boxes at Home Depot last week for my recessed lighting...
Excellent !!!
Now we need to get the federal government out of the toilet flush water regulatory business, so I can finally purchase a toilet that flushes on the first push of the lever.
Common sense is breaking out all over. Steven Chu says that “we are keeping people from wasting their own money”. Unlike Steve Chu who has no problem wasting $500 million of taxpayer money on a hairbrained scheme like Solyndra.
I do not consider it a waste of money, I consider a convenience, I am buying a product that I prefer, that I can throw in the trash when it fails. I may not have a Nobel Prize, but I know what I like and I do *not* Dr. Chu to tell me how to live.
If they would only defund enforcement at the source...the IRS.
The author apparently doesn't understand the meaning of "obselete". The bill would have made them ILLEGAL, not obselete. Incandescent bulbs are perfectly useful, and in most respects vastly superior to the annoyingly slow to light, mercury-filled abominations known as "compact flourescents".