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Thanks George for signing such a despotic piece of crap referred to by our complicit Congress as legislation. It seems that they will vomit up anything and tack an innocuous title to it.

Energy Independence and Security Act (Chinese Light Bulbs)

Affordable Care Act (Lucifercare)

1 posted on 01/05/2014 5:38:18 AM PST by IbJensen
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To: IbJensen

Had one of those new bulbs burn out with a gas cloud in my bathroom. The smell was noxious and from what I read - toxic! No more of these in my home, I will pay a premium for the bad illegal bulbs until I can’t get them anymore - then burn candles until they make those illegal too.


2 posted on 01/05/2014 5:44:25 AM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: IbJensen

I had a thought about something that might affect those who are said to have stockpiled dozens of 100-watt light bulbs. At some point will it be impossible to purchase lamps that can take 100watters? It might be wise to purchase some quality lamps for future use.


3 posted on 01/05/2014 5:45:21 AM PST by grania
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To: IbJensen

Inquiring minds think:
The EXEMPT US Congress did this either because
1) it helps al Qaeda and illegals
more than Americans

and/or

2) the EXEMPT, hated, US Congress actually, impetuously
made money off of this tyranny.


4 posted on 01/05/2014 5:46:44 AM PST by Diogenesis
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To: IbJensen
If I recomember correctly this was REPUBLICAN bill, signed into law by a REPUBLICAN president.
Oh yeah, I just cannot wait until this poor nation has a Republican president and congress. After all they are about two degrees right of the Democrats.
5 posted on 01/05/2014 5:48:58 AM PST by Tupelo (I am feeling more like Philip Nolan every day)
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To: IbJensen

This is a world-wide phenom - started in Brazil in 2005, and much of Europe is already deep into no-lightbulb land.


7 posted on 01/05/2014 5:55:34 AM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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Yeah, 23 years my butt...they last 2 years max under normal use. I tried them out and am now replacing them as they blow. The whole thing is yet another global warming scam, and I guarantee that in about 20 years or so, we’ll be reading horror stories about mercury contamination in the landfills because of these things.


12 posted on 01/05/2014 6:14:07 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: IbJensen

I like the new led bulbs. They are way more efficient.

We are closing all kinds of usable coal plants throughout the country. We must save energy some how.


13 posted on 01/05/2014 6:16:13 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: IbJensen
We’ll find out later this year if the Supreme Court agrees with him and does anything to retard the EPA’s onslaught against the coal industry.

This is the same court that ruled Carbon Dioxide was a pollutant, wishful thinking that they have any intention of offering relief from the EPA.

15 posted on 01/05/2014 6:53:04 AM PST by itsahoot (It is not so much that history repeats, but that human nature does not change.)
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To: IbJensen

We shouldn’t fall into the “Bush did it” trap here. Congress, whether run by Dems or the GOP, has no business telling us what light bulb we can or can’t use.

Bush went over to the dark side on global warming too, before he left office, but now more and more people are realizing it was all a scam to gain more power over us.

Raise hell with Congress over the light bulbs and we might just get this one, at least, reversed, now that global warming is being seen for what it is...a power grab.


17 posted on 01/05/2014 7:00:39 AM PST by Norseman (Defund the Left-Completely!)
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To: IbJensen

I switched to LED for my 20 outdoor Malibu path lights a couple years ago.

Not nearly as bright as incandescent, but just adequate to light the path. I had been testing options for a few years, and switched when I could get ones that were bright enough to see were on, and for $5 each.

The biggest advantage is that they never burn out, literally so far. I was constantly replacing the incandescents (I don’t think they liked occasionally being buried in snow), which always had a few that needed replacing, and which turned their glass dark gray over time.


20 posted on 01/05/2014 7:35:53 AM PST by Atlas Sneezed
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Made in China

Id’ bet we can’t find bulbs made anywhere else.


21 posted on 01/05/2014 7:42:38 AM PST by onedoug
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I expect an environmental crisis in a few years as these mercury filled CFL bulbs are improperly disposed in landfills as well as homes and neighborhoods being contaminated. Imagine the havoc if vandals broke hundreds of these CFL bulbs in a school or public building. The building would have to be shutdown and decontaminated. Even dropping a case of these bulbs off a pallet at a store would result in a hazardous material spill incident. Mercury pollution will soon become so pervasive that environmentalists will be clambering for the federal government to fix the problem.
22 posted on 01/05/2014 7:52:46 AM PST by The Great RJ
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To: IbJensen
Reagan restored the Republican party after Nixon and all who came progressively before him.

The Bush family and the GOPe then undid all that was Reagan but the memory, which too will be gone soon enough, and re-aligned our trajectory for a kinder, gentler, more rational progression to the new US.

Welcome to post 9/11, post-Constitutional America.

24 posted on 01/05/2014 9:02:26 AM PST by GBA (Here in the Matrix, life is but a dream.)
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To: IbJensen; All

Check this out for a bright light on this topic http://www.brightlights-inc.com/


30 posted on 01/05/2014 9:49:55 AM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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