Feds move to tighten efficiency rules for household lamps

The Hill ^ | April 28, 2014 | Tim Devaney

[cuban leaf]

I have solar. They’re planning on taxing it!

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Yeah, we’ll see how it goes for them in our area. And to be fair, I feel like a bunch of germans in late 1944 worrying about Hitlers laws that will come into effect in 1946.

If you get my drift. :-)

[IYAS9YAS]

Regulators raise the rates to make up for the loss.Yep. The City of Albuquerque is going through this now. The Water Authority pushed and pushed for lower water use, the citizens did a masterful job of it, now the Water Authority's revenue is down and they are proposing rate increases.

[MaxMax]

When will they MADATE cars run on air? Just before then deem Oxygen a pollutant.

[null and void]

Yup.

[Geoffrey]

Will we ever see a smaller fedgov in our lives? Will it never end?

[null and void]

The first ecological disaster on earth was when green plants polluted the Earth’s atmosphere and wiped out nearly all other life with that deadly poison, oxygen.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

I’m in Maryland...they tax rain here.

[Oliviaforever]

“The Energy Department estimates the rules will save the public billions in energy bills over the next three decades...”

In other words, Obama wants to deny American utility companies $3 billion in revenue.

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[Buckeye McFrog]

Will we ever see a smaller fedgov in our lives? Will it never end?

It WILL end. It MUST. It is unsustainable.

However, I do not believe that it will be in my lifetime. IMO we are on the Soviet path of slow decay. Should take approximately 70 years to play out until ultimate, final collapse.

[Truth29]

They are never going to leave us alone. They live and breathe totalitarian control. Nothing but blood and steel will stop them.

[grania]

Assume that there might be people who stockpiled a lifetime supply of 100 watters. Will those people now have to stockpile lamps that will let them shine?

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

These "efficiency" rules might make sense for people living in the sun belt. They make less and less sense, for anyone who ever has to heat their house (shop, office, whatever). That's why I put "efficiency" in scare quotes. Yes, incandescent light bulbs are inefficient emitters of visible light -- but, they are perfectly efficient (i.e. 100% efficient) electric heaters. They can actually save you energy. Most of the energy used by incandescent bulbs is converted to invisible infrared "light". You can't see it, but you can feel it. If you're sitting under a (say) 100 Watt incandescent light, you'll feel a tad warmer than you would otherwise, and voilà you're saving energy.

[mylife]

What about Toilets? We need toilet regulation now!!

[SisterK]

as if free enterprise was highly over rated

[NEMDF]

Well, you know, first they have to pass the law. Then they have to establish some new department and about 15 new agencies to figure out how to enforce the law. Then those agencies will need “field” people to check all the retailers to be sure they are not carrying illicit lamps, and then they will need some inspectors to go house to house, to be sure we are not using illicit lamps, then there will be people needed write the computer programs needed to keep track of all of this. You cannot expect these things to be free, can you? (/s)

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I find those terms acceptable. </Edgar the Bug>

[dalereed]

Screw efficiency, generate more fossil fuel power!!!

[null and void]

What about Toilets? We need toilet regulation now!!

*ahem* Senator Al Gore did that.

[SampleMan]

What a pantload. Any Congress with a pair would...

Most of Congress is a pantload. There in is the problem.