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Congress overturns incandescent light bulb ban
Washington Times ^
| 16 December 2011
| Stephen Dinan
Posted on 12/16/2011 11:08:18 AM PST by ShadowAce
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posted on
12/16/2011 11:08:25 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
To: ShadowAce
Well, wadda ya know....something good has been accomplished this year.
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posted on
12/16/2011 11:10:48 AM PST
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: ShadowAce
I’ll wait till the bill is signed before I do the Snoopy “happy dance.”
Now what am I gonna do with the garage filled with soon-to-be black market edisons I stocked up on. I even had my overcoat customized.
“Hey, wanna buy a...”
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posted on
12/16/2011 11:11:31 AM PST
by
sinanju
To: ShadowAce
Watt a bright idea!........................
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posted on
12/16/2011 11:11:48 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Every child should have a meadow to play in..............)
To: ShadowAce
On the other hand. Light Bulb Futures just went into the toilet ;-)
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posted on
12/16/2011 11:13:17 AM PST
by
bigbob
To: Puppage
They did not repeal the law, they just “suspended” it.
Meaningless.
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posted on
12/16/2011 11:13:58 AM PST
by
Jim Noble
(To live peacefully with credit-based consumption and fiat money, men would have to be angels.)
To: ShadowAce
A glimmer of hope that just a little sanity remains in D.C.
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posted on
12/16/2011 11:17:04 AM PST
by
NavyCanDo
To: ShadowAce
Too late to save domestic production, but at least we are spared the dull, dingy emanations of the overpriced worm lights.
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posted on
12/16/2011 11:17:14 AM PST
by
Psalm 144
(Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)
To: ShadowAce
” Congress overturns incandescent light bulb ban “
Surprisingly bad headline writing on the part of the WATIMES - even contradicted later in their article —
“The spending bill doesn’t actually amend the 2007 law, but does prohibit the administration from spending any money to carry out the light bulb standards”
The ban on real lightbulbs remains the law of the land - just not enforced.. For now....
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posted on
12/16/2011 11:17:46 AM PST
by
Uncle Ike
(Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
To: Jim Noble
Meaningless.Is anyone even making incandescent light bulbs anymore? Maybe the Russians...
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posted on
12/16/2011 11:19:27 AM PST
by
Drew68
To: ShadowAce
I just cleaned out the local market’s supply of incadescents. 2 packs of 4 bulbs for 75 cents. I guess the market didn’t want to be stuck with a pile of bulbs it could not legally sell.
To: ShadowAce
Thank God all those nasty light bulb manufacturing jobs have been eliminated.
Now we can get them from China.
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posted on
12/16/2011 11:29:26 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(FOREIGN AID: A transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries)
To: ShadowAce
They did not win a repeal of the measure...they only temporarily defunded enforcement.
Whoooppie! Meanwhile our tax dollars will be spent overseas supporting abortion. So glad to see republicans take a stand!
/s
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posted on
12/16/2011 11:46:57 AM PST
by
icwhatudo
("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the constitution"-Obama official)
To: fatnotlazy
Walmart probably had 32 one hundred watt bulbs left over across the country so they paid their lobbyist to push for a suspension until the all 32 were sold.
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posted on
12/16/2011 11:47:33 AM PST
by
donhunt
(Certified and proud "Son of a Bitch".)
To: ShadowAce
>>Congressional Republicans dropped almost all of the policy restrictions they tried to attach to the bill
Wonderful. Just the bunch of hard-hitting Pubbies we need for 2012. /S
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posted on
12/16/2011 11:48:27 AM PST
by
pabianice
(")
To: Jim Noble
Yup and since the ban has been coming for a while, the producers have long stopped producing.
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posted on
12/16/2011 11:53:26 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
To: ShadowAce
They can take the entire Federal bureaucracy and stick it where the incandescents don’t shine.
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posted on
12/16/2011 12:03:37 PM PST
by
dagogo redux
(A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
To: Drew68
Is anyone even making incandescent light bulbs anymore? Maybe the Russians...
Close... it is a country south of them... where we are getting most things.
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posted on
12/16/2011 12:49:34 PM PST
by
ExCTCitizen
(If we stay home in November '12... Don't complain if 0 shreds the constitution!!!)
To: sinanju
“Now what am I gonna do with the garage filled with soon-to-be black market edisons I stocked up on”
LOL-—my first thought, too.
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posted on
12/16/2011 1:03:09 PM PST
by
freeangel
( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
To: ShadowAce
Great.
I have been hoarding incadincadoo buolbs for 2 years, planning on the black market that was to come.
Now what am I going to do with a garage full of regular price incadincadoo bulbs?
Phht! Gov! Who needs them?
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posted on
12/16/2011 3:46:00 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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