Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


1 posted on 04/28/2014 12:33:37 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-36 next last
To: Cincinatus' Wife
The hope is that if they make us energy efficient enough we'll all just give up and die.
2 posted on 04/28/2014 12:35:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Cincinatus' Wife

Except for the bulb what is there to make efficient?


3 posted on 04/28/2014 12:35:59 PM PDT by sickoflibs (Obama : 'You can keep your doctor if you want. I never tell a lie ')
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Cincinatus' Wife

What a pantload. Any Congress with a pair would simply defund DOE. But that ain’t gonna happen.


5 posted on 04/28/2014 12:36:35 PM PDT by tgusa (gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .......)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Cincinatus' Wife

Why is it that whenever they talk about how WE are
saving money, WE end up paying more, for EVERYTHING?


6 posted on 04/28/2014 12:36:47 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Cincinatus' Wife

Seriously... residential lighting accounts for what, 2%?, of total electricity use in the USA?


7 posted on 04/28/2014 12:37:16 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Cincinatus' Wife
The Energy Department estimates the rules will save the public billions in energy bills

Yeah.

We use less energy.

Utility companies make less money.

Regulators raise the rates to make up for the loss.

Just like every other time.

8 posted on 04/28/2014 12:37:51 PM PDT by null and void ( They don't think think they are above the law. They think they are the law.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Cincinatus' Wife

“The Department of Energy is looking to regulate two types of household lamps.”

The fact that a Republican president and Republican congress not only did not eliminate this department, but instead outlawed the incandescent bulb, tells you all you need to know about these “conservative” jerks.


9 posted on 04/28/2014 12:38:46 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Cincinatus' Wife

With all the problems facing our nation, THIS is what they spend their time on.

It’s malfeasance in office...

Anyone signing on to this should be sent home on a one way ticket.


10 posted on 04/28/2014 12:39:07 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Cincinatus' Wife

I ignore them. I do not suffer fascists lightly. As long as they are an irrelevance to me, no harm, no foul.

I pray it stays that way.


12 posted on 04/28/2014 12:40:23 PM PDT by cuban leaf
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Cincinatus' Wife

crap....I only got a B-minus on the lamp I made in tenth grade metal shop BEFORE all of these new environmental regs came in...


14 posted on 04/28/2014 12:40:59 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Cincinatus' Wife

Liberals in government know nothing of unintended consequences and could not care less anyway...as history proves.


15 posted on 04/28/2014 12:41:37 PM PDT by EagleUSA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Cincinatus' Wife
Furthermore, the rules would have significant environmental benefits. Carbon dioxide reductions from the GSFL standards would save the government between $1.3 billion and $17 billion, the agency estimates.

What??? He's claiming that if you emit a harmless gas, it costs the GOVERNMENT money?? And since when do you gauge "economic benefit" of an action by it's impact on the government anyway, rather than on the good people, you know -= the ones with jobs?

18 posted on 04/28/2014 12:42:35 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Cincinatus' Wife
The Energy Department estimates the rules will save the public billions in energy bills over the next three decades and have substantial environmental benefits. But the agency also expects the rules will cost manufacturers more than $90 million, which could lead some to close up shop and cut jobs. It is weighing the costs with the benefits.

I call BS all around on this one. First, let's work out just how much an average consumer will save per year over 30 years just to pay for this wet dream. I'd do it myself, but I don't have the patience.

And the $90 million - yeah, right. Nothing the brown-shirted folk at the EPA have ever done has cost so little.

19 posted on 04/28/2014 12:43:42 PM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity (Liars use facts when the truth doesn't suit their purposes.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Cincinatus' Wife

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


23 posted on 04/28/2014 12:45:20 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Cincinatus' Wife

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


25 posted on 04/28/2014 12:46:36 PM PDT by Geoffrey
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Cincinatus' Wife

“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.


28 posted on 04/28/2014 12:49:12 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Cincinatus' Wife

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?


32 posted on 04/28/2014 12:52:11 PM PDT by grania
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Cincinatus' Wife
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.
33 posted on 04/28/2014 12:52:16 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Cincinatus' Wife

What about Toilets? We need toilet regulation now!!


34 posted on 04/28/2014 12:53:32 PM PDT by mylife
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Cincinatus' Wife

as if free enterprise was highly over rated


35 posted on 04/28/2014 12:54:22 PM PDT by SisterK (behold a pale horse)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-36 next last

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson