FTC turns lights on decorative bulbs

The Hill ^ | June 17 2014 | Tim Devaney

[PoloSec]

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) may require decorative light bulbs to publish energy labels that provide consumers with information about a bulb's brightness, color, life, energy use, and estimated annual energy cost.

The FTC announced Tuesday it is considering new rules that would require decorative and other specialty light bulbs to comply with the same energy labeling rule that other, more traditional light bulbs have been following since 2010.

The Lighting Facts label can be found on general service light bulbs, such as incandescents, fluorescents, and LEDs.

But, so far, decorative lights have been exempt from the labeling rule.

This comes as part of a potentially broad expansion of the FTC's energy labeling rule, which would allow include new rules for refrigerators, ceiling fans, furnaces, televisions, and air conditioners, the agency said.

The public has until Aug. 18 to comment on the proposed rule.

[Gene Eric]

Is the FTC militarized too?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Sounds like huge makework and gummit bureaucracy self justification to me.

How many people have complained they don’t know the candlepower or scientifically precise hue of a Christmas light or a party lamp?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Why of cuss.

[LyinLibs]

Moslems no likey Christmas?

[HiTech RedNeck]

“Cuss” being figurative for the cussing cusses that are trying to cuss us all.

[BenLurkin]

[Scrambler Bob]

Red bulbs must have a label stating: “RED”

Similar requirement for Green bulbs, and all other colors.

[Political Junkie Too]

The Lighting Facts label can be found on general service light bulbs, such as incandescents, fluorescents, and LEDs.

Light-emitting diodes are now "bulbs?"

-PJ

[Gene Eric]

Then we shall be cussedly unyielding.

[Grams A]

How many people have complained...”

Outside of the people in Boulder, Colorado, who wanted to change the stoplight colors at Christmas from red and green to something else that is not a Christmas color, nobody I know. These people need to be fired if that is all they have to deal with.

[1rudeboy]

LABEL: DO NOT PLACE BULB IN MOUTH

[HiTech RedNeck]

Some new lamps are made with an LED or more commonly, arrays of them, and have the form factor of bulbs and are called bulbs.

[Political Junkie Too]

Sure, but do they require the labeling of bulbs? They don't heat by filament, they don't contain gas, they don't consume the same amount of electricity. But because they look like bulbs they have to be treated like bulbs?

-PJ

[dennisw]

Fire 50% of FTC drones. They obviously have too much time on their hands. Normally they would be porn surfing

[HiTech RedNeck]

Ones that are marketed as replacements for ordinary white-light bulbs get labeled today. I don’t know what legal requirements are. But I’ve seen them in places like Home Depot. I tried one once for a floodlight and was underwhelmed. It was stark and harsh and eye fatiguing. I switched to one that had a curly-bulb in a floodlamp envelope and was happier.

[discostu]

Just another piece of paper in the box I’ll throw out.

[headstamp 2]

The shadow government MUST expand.

[Red Badger]

LABEL: DO NOT PLACE BULB IN MOUTH...........or any other body orifices................

[Political Junkie Too]

Yeah, I bought a few 60watt equivalents that say they only take 2 watts. I wanted to have something that runs off of a 12V battery with an inverter in case of blackouts.

It doesn't cast a light that lights the whole room, but it's cheap on current.

I also picked up a few 13 watt CFLs (claim to be 60W equivalents). They draw a lot more current from the 12v, but they do light up the room a lot more in a pinch.

-PJ