I hate these stupid curley bulbs. I had a lamp with one today in a dark area of the house. I was trying to read an installation manual. The dumb thing got brighter and brighter over about 10 minutes. It really messed with my vision.
I want instant on, instant off. I want my old incandescents. The politicians were bought off by excessively large business (GE, etc.) to jam these stinking, expensive bulbs down our throats.
At some point, some businesses and big government become one and the same and they are really bad for liberty and freedom. GE is one of those now quasi government monstrosities.
Yeah, do you remember those ads they were running about their medical data base, where a patient was being examined in an auditorium of doctors, some of whom would pipe up with advice? It was pretty amazing in its implications, and it disappeared soon enough, but I assume GE still has its billion dollar contract to produce and implement this database, and that it will suddenly appear to us as a hawk suddenly appears to a muskrat.
GE's largest single retail buyer had more to do with it than anything. That and a Republican who wrote the bill too start with.
A certain Big Box Store was on a shelf reduction store wide space saving kick and wanted too sell less bulbs at a much high price. At the same time that Big Box Store also went on a huge PC "GREEN ENERGY" kick too please a more PC liberal leaning market. As a result that Big Box Store whom other corps jumps through hoops for pushed for these bulbs. That Big BOX Store is majority share owned of course by Liberals.
Ironically soon after the incandescents disappeared from that stores shelves for at least a year or two then suddenly recently after realizing they weren't making the anticipated money and the incandescents could be bought elsewhere the store that pushed for the ban brought them back on their shelves.