I’m surprised that congressmen in the northern states aren’t up in arms about this. Their constituents may actually need the heat!
CFL’s make sense in some applications. I had already converted to CFL’s in my exterior fixtures which were not designed for good air flow. The incandescent bulbs would overheat and burn out. Also, external lighting is left on all night for security reasons and the bulbs are cycled once a day. However, anywhere you actually want heat, then an incandescent should be fine.
In our house in Payson we use electric zone heating in order to reduce the use of propane required to heat the entire house. It turns out that an incandescent bulb or two can take the chill off a room just like a few human bodies.
Environmentalists have a habit of ignoring the benefits of the things they want to ban or control. Ignoring beneficial heat from incandescents is similar to choosing to ignore the benefits from the rise of global temperatures.
Those damnable republicans are trying to keep expensive lightbulbs out of the hands of the poor!
Would someone kindly point out to me the Constitutional language that would allow the U.S. government to tell me, or anyone else for that matter, what kind of light bulb I can manufacture or purchase!
Was in Wallyworld today. They have regular 90 watt light bulbs since the 100’s are outlawed.
As soon as that is done, somebody needs to introduce legislation to tell the federal government to stay out of our sh!t, housing, gasoline, food,light, etc.
Their job is to defend the border and deliver the mail, and they won't even do that.
Yet something else (among MANY) we have our former Compassionate Conservative RINO (BOOSH) to thank for, for not excercising his veto.
While he’s at it, how about deregulating toilets, so we can have toilets that flush with just one flush?
Seriously, having to drive to Mexico just to get a working toilet is a drag.
“efficiency standards”
Fudge miners want government out of the bedroom and in the living room, bathroom, kitchen, porch et al.
The lightbulb police have no business dictating what size bulb I can buy nor are they permitted to affect my vision at home.
Fluorescent light is annoying on a subliminal level and not very healthy.
Somewhere George Orwell is smiling.
An extensive referenced rundown of why the light bulb ban
makes no sense
http://dunday.com/p/deception-behind-banning-light-bulbs.html
- including to save energy
(a fraction of 1% of US energy saved, on referenced DoE data - and the same coal effectively gets burned at night regardless of light bulbs used, from the way coal power plants work)
Libloather
you may be interested in a post supporting Michael Burgess new bulb bill amendment, and Answering the Critics:
“Typical of Un-Progressive Republicans to want to hang on to Horse and Buggy technology, rather than support Innovation!”, “How many Times do we have to Keep Saying it’s not a Ban!”, etc...
http://freedomlightbulb.blogspot.com/2012/05/bright-burgess-bulb-bill-block-part-2.html
Energy saving bulbs that are more expensive, so you can use less energy! Great! We use less energy so the energy companies raise their rate BECAUSE YOU ARE USING LESS ENERGY!!!!!!!!!!!! So the end result is the consumer pays more for both! Liberalism truly IS a mental disease.