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FTC turns lights on decorative bulbs
The Hill ^
| June 17 2014
| Tim Devaney
Posted on 06/17/2014 12:43:41 PM PDT by 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.
TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: decorativelightbulbs; energylabeling; ftc; lightbulbs
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posted on
06/17/2014 12:43:41 PM PDT
by
PoloSec
Is the FTC militarized too?
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posted on
06/17/2014 12:45:34 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: PoloSec
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?
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posted on
06/17/2014 12:46:07 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Gene Eric
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posted on
06/17/2014 12:46:23 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: PoloSec
Moslems no likey Christmas?
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posted on
06/17/2014 12:46:40 PM PDT
by
LyinLibs
(If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
To: Gene Eric
“Cuss” being figurative for the cussing cusses that are trying to cuss us all.
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posted on
06/17/2014 12:47:32 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: PoloSec
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posted on
06/17/2014 12:47:57 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: PoloSec
Red bulbs must have a label stating: “RED”
Similar requirement for Green bulbs, and all other colors.
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posted on
06/17/2014 12:48:41 PM PDT
by
Scrambler Bob
(You can count my felonies by looking at my FR replies.)
To: PoloSec
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
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posted on
06/17/2014 12:51:56 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Then we shall be cussedly unyielding.
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posted on
06/17/2014 12:52:37 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: HiTech RedNeck
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.
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posted on
06/17/2014 12:59:32 PM PDT
by
Grams A
(The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
To: Scrambler Bob
LABEL: DO NOT PLACE BULB IN MOUTH
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posted on
06/17/2014 1:02:15 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: Political Junkie Too
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.
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posted on
06/17/2014 1:03:46 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
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
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posted on
06/17/2014 1:07:15 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: PoloSec
Fire 50% of FTC drones. They obviously have too much time on their hands. Normally they would be porn surfing
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posted on
06/17/2014 1:08:39 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
To: Political Junkie Too
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.
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posted on
06/17/2014 1:11:36 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: PoloSec
Just another piece of paper in the box I’ll throw out.
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posted on
06/17/2014 1:12:05 PM PDT
by
discostu
(Ladies and gentlemen watch Ruth!)
To: PoloSec
The shadow government MUST expand.
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posted on
06/17/2014 1:13:03 PM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(What would Scooby do?)
To: 1rudeboy
LABEL: DO NOT PLACE BULB IN MOUTH...........or any other body orifices................
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posted on
06/17/2014 1:14:21 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
To: HiTech RedNeck
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
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posted on
06/17/2014 1:18:58 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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