Posted on 12/30/2013 5:31:16 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Bulb Ban: As of Wednesday, the manufacture and import of 60- and 40-watt incandescent light bulbs will be illegal — one more setback in the fight against government interference into the daily lives of the American people.
First they came for our light bulbs. Before the onset of ObamaCare and its mandate to buy health insurance as a condition of citizenship, there was the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA), one of the first things Democrats took up on retaking the House of Representatives in the 2006 elections.
A well-intentioned President George W. Bush signed the incandescent bulb ban in 2007. After all, Edison bulbs were old technology and a little energy efficiency couldn't hurt.
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Wondering what will be happening to all the locations, both residential and commercial, that use dimmers and filament bulbs........
I’ve got a house full of them......in almost every room.......most rooms have several.....
You can use the halogen bulbs with dimmer switches, both the rheostat and the chopper types.
Thanks for the info!
I actually know a liberal who thinks the light bulb ban was totally stupid. I haven't seen him recently. I have a feeling that he got whacked by Obamacare as he had an individual policy that may well have gotten nuked. I keep hoping he will see the light (no pun intended).
The communistic Earned Income Tax Credit was first proposed by Nixon and signed into law by Ford. Both "republicans"
And don’t forget Nixon’s EPA.
GE is the dirtiest company in America.
GE is behind the funding of the global warming B.S. bad science because it helps sell new power plants and consumer products, like light bulbs.
My local Walmart also still has the three way light bulbs. Went out yesterdayand bought $25 worth of 40 and 60 watt bulbs
I’m thinking this particular liberal in my life
has so totally bought the “benevolence of government”
fallacy that accepting that they are limiting freedom
would be a paradigm shattering concept.
I have a liberal in my life who thinks I’m talking about black helicopter conspiracy theories, when I tell him light bulbs are being phased out. He just flat doesn’t believe me...at least he didn’t when the 100s and 75s were phased out...because in his tiny pea brain, he still saw bulbs on the shelf.
I’d still love to, you know, be able to stop by the store and buy a freaking light bulb. So buying bulbs online (for more) and waiting for delivery isn’t exactly the same thing in my book.
30 years ago, if somebody had told me a light bulb ban was in our future, I wouldn’t have believed it. Total insanity.
Whewww... so I’m not the only one experiencing this denial.
“Go buy me a 100 W light bulb at Home Depot, and I’ll pay you $100 for it. You have to show me the receipt, and it can’t be a “rough service bulb”.”
“Oh, and if you can’t, just hand me $100.”
“Deal?”
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Halogens are still legal and will be for some time. Just like your old bulbs. Dimmable, no mercury, no circuit boards, just a filament and some gas.
They are available in all common size equivalents, and they use less energy to boot.
http://auctions.samsclub.com/sylvania-halogen-72-watt-8-pack-100-watt-equivalent
That link should work.
Halogens are incandescents and they are still legal and they are just like your old familiar bulbs, except for the gas they are filled with.
GE makes them, too.
http://www.samsclub.com/sams/ge-halogen-43-watt-incandescent-replacement-bulbs-4-pk/prod2730209.ip
http://www.samsclub.com/sams/ge-halogen-light-bulbs/prod3960177.ip
http://www.samsclub.com/sams/ge-halogen-40-watt-decorative-bulbs-4-ct/prod2730211.ip
We hear so much about 3D “printing” but I’ll bet it’s still not possible to use that process for producing incandescent light bulbs of any size.
There’s one big difference between the halogens and the traditional bulbs...
THE PRICE!!
Here’s a 2-pack of 100s on Amazon...
$3.56 per bulb!
http://www.amazon.com/Sylvania-19010-72-Watt-Halogen-2-Pack/dp/B00361IPPM
Oh, I am quite familiar with halogens. I just replaced 14 of them for my track lighting....total cost was over $80.
I don’t want to hear that I can mail order a rough service bulb, or use a halogen, or just buy more candles.
The fact of the matter is, the government has reduced my choices. I want to be able to buy a 25 cent good old fashioned light bulb without criminal implications.
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