Posted on 09/05/2019 3:01:01 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The Department of Energy announced this week that it’s withdrawing the Obama administration’s energy-rationing mandate for certain lightbulbs.
Opponents criticized the rule change, arguing that the move would be bad for consumers and the climate. The reality, however, is that families and businesses will be better off, and the change will have a negligible impact on the environment.
The Energy Department’s decision to withdraw energy-efficiency standards for candle-shaped, globe-shaped, three-way and reflector lightbulbs is a victory for consumer choice.
Whether it’s buying a lightbulb or a new car, families have different preferences and needs. They consider the various trade-offs in products and face different budget constraints.
When Washington forces energy-rationing mandates on consumers, the federal government takes those choices away or at the very least overrides their preferences.
Critics of the Department of Energy’s action argue that continuing to use energy-inefficient lights will cost households $100 annually in higher energy costs.
But here’s the good news: There’s no mandate forcing families or businesses to use inefficient lighting. Consumers can voluntarily replace inefficient bulbs with more efficient ones if they so choose.
The practices of being resourceful and saving money are intuitive, which means that the economy does not need mandates or rebate programs to nudge families into making decisions the government thinks are best for consumers.
In fact, many families and businesses are switching over to LED bulbs because of the cost savings.
According to the National Manufacturing Electric Association, “The general service LED bulb now accounts for approximately 70 percent of the shipments in the general service lamp category.
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“I still have 80 or so of the old bulbs I bought before they got banned.”
I replaced all my old bulbs and gave them away.
Also, I don't understand why some 'daylight' (6500 K)bulbs are heavier on blue. I never thought the yellow sun made things look blue.
bttt
“Now let’s get rid of Obama’s dysfunctional 5 gallon gas cans. Bring back the old style with top & rear handles & a spout that actually pours.”
No Shiite! When Mama has to fill the gas tank of her Zero-Turn Mower each week, she has MANY choice words for the stupid, STUPID gas can she is FORCED to use these days!
Good Lord! It ain’t the GAS that’s flammable - it’s the friggin’ FUMES!
WHY does it take me 50% longer to fill the gas tank? Oh, that’s right - it barely TRICKLES!
WTF? Seriously. I have an ACRE to mow and you Government MORONS are SLOWING ME DOWN!
“Also, I don’t understand why some ‘daylight’ (6500 K)bulbs are heavier on blue. I never thought the yellow sun made things look blue.”
6500 k is on the extreme blue end.
Kelvin Color Temperature Scale for Light Fixtures
2000K-3000K: Gives off a warm white/yellow glow (candlelight hues)
3100K-4500K: Gives off a bright, cool white glow
4600K-6500K: Gives off a crisp daylight glow (white/bluish hues)
I had one of the Thing banks, too...and an Adams Family lunchbox, too...
Great to hear about the light bulbs. What I’d REALLY like to hear about is when will obamacare be shut down?
Deep State and its’ puppet pols are keeping it alive to reimpose after Trump leaves.
Same here. About 10 percent of our LED lights fail. Sales pitches of them working for a hundred years aren't working out. The diodes may last long but the electronics behind them fail. I replaced some incandescent squares in our kitchen with LED flat panels, where I changed the sheetrock and junction boxes just for the LED flat panels. Failed within a month. At over $100 a pop, got an exchange. Two months later, another failed. Got an exchange, again. If it fails again I'll rip them out and try something else.
LED lights do fail, and when they do in an integrated fixture, the entire fixture is worthless.
The term is CFL - stands for Compact F*cked Light.
I just want them to be easily accessible, dependable, and cheap - as they used to be.
When I was growing up, we had all-incandescent. They were reliably the same, and when one blew out, you could pick another up when you did your usual shopping - for cheap.
Now, if I want something with the same kind of light, I have to go online - or search my files for the posts I’ve found here - to find something that makes the kind of light that I’ve grown accustomed to and prefer.
Life is being made too complicated, in every respect - even to something as basic as lightbulbs have been for over 100 years.
Some people may want the ‘new stuff’. But others may want the ‘old stuff’. I don’t think that people who are willing to continue to produce the old things should be cut out of business by law or regulation.
I’m with you on that, big time. ‘Daylight’ sounds so nice but in reality comes off as cold and institutional. I visited a relative who had installed a bunch of daylight LEDs not knowing any better. She took my advice to swap them for warm color temp bulbs and the difference was dramatic.
When I learned of the planned government mandated phaseout of 60 w incandescent bulbs it was a year or two out so prices had not gone up in the stores. I bought a lifetime supply of them for chump change. Got a lot of 4 in a pack for $1, most all of them little more than that. Basically, for about $20 I have more than I will ever need. Especially since now the LEDs have come down so much that I have put those in the hard to reach fixtures & I only use the incandescent bulbs in the rest.
You can choose to kill a baby or change your sex. No other real choices in America today.
That’s ridiculous.
You can still choose to keep your baby AND your innate sex.
The people who choose otherwise are still a minority (and in the case of changing sex, a very SMALL minority.)
It’s a big mistake to let all the stuff in the ‘news’ discourage us and convince us that the world is going to hell. It isn’t - and it won’t be, unless sensible people allow themselves to be sucked into the propaganda.
I had one of the corkscrew lights pop in the upstairs bathroom, showering my laundry basket with “powder”.
I didn’t know any better so I just rewashed the clothes and dried them, which blew the mercury dust everywhere upstairs.
Shortly after, I was diagnosed with “mercury poisoning”.
Took months to get my levels back to a safe range.
Now I know why the “broken bulb cleanup instructions” are so dire...as if anyone can afford a hazmat team to come to their house.
I stopped using them and went to the LED bulbs which I like.
“I just want them to be easily accessible, dependable, and cheap - as they used to be.”
They are easily accessible.
They are more dependable and last longer.
They are cheaper when you factor in the cost of electricity.
“When I was growing up, we had all-incandescent. “
I did too. Along with a kerosene heater. Times change.
Walmart has 4 packs of 75 watt LED for .80 cents! That’s not .80 cents each, it’s a 4 pack for .80 cents!
“Now, if I want something with the same kind of light, I have to go online - or search my files for the posts I’ve found here - to find something that makes the kind of light that I’ve grown accustomed to and prefer.”
HD, Lowes, Costco, etc., have displays of the various lights so you can decide what ‘color’ suits you.
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