Glen Beck and his attic full of hoarded light bulbs, hardest hit.
energy-inefficient light bulbs ...
OH NO!!!!
Forget all the gambling, drinking and other things that can’t be said that I’ve done in my lifetime, on top of all that i’m gonna keep using “energy-inefficient light bulbs”!!
Now there’s no chance to get into The Pearly Gates!
Sadly, MILLIONS would believe that God would deny you entry for that.
If they believed in God.
Can we go back to pre-Algore toilets too?
China is complaining?
Pretty much every incandescent light bulb you find at a retailer will say "Made in China".
I would imagine that since 2020 is only months away, lightbulb manufacturers would already have re-tooled their designs to meet the standards which were expected to come into effect under the Obama rule. Already, the new-style bulbs are almost the only thing I see on the shelves
You mean I won’t be forced to buy those “10,000 hour” bulbs that go bad at 300 hours and get thrown into the landfill to poison the ground water?
Why do I keep having to replace these new-style bulbs that claim to have a ten-year life span?
Now I can break out my stash.
And then there’s the mercury cleanup that will occur in the future. You don’t really think folks are taking them to a special center, do you?
Thanks to the federal government regulations, virtually all of our lightbulb manufacturing went to China. For example, although the law required CFLs, you could not manufacture CFLs in the U.S. because of hazardous substance laws (contains mercury). In my state they had the further absurdity that although you could only buy CFLs, it was illegal to dispose of them (again because they have mercury).
Trump’s also trying to supersede the rules on dishwashers so you can again buy working dishwashers in the U.S.
The government didn’t need to mandate anything. Technology was proceeding in the right direction all along. Nobody wants to pay more for electricity or buy things that last just a short time. The free market would have bore it out IF they had just left it alone. Just about everything the govt gets involved with outside the Constitution, gets screwed up.
Now let’s scrap CAFE standards while we’re at it and bring back those awesome inline 6 cylinder engines!
These leftists are great people. They are always wanting us to save money. They imposed little econo-box cars on us so we would save money. They imposed expensive light bulbs on us so we would save money. They sure do care about us and our money. They want us to save money so they can confiscate it from us via taxes.
I am curious though, would LEDs have come down in price as quickly as they did were it not for government pressure on the market to innovate?
I determine how I save my money, not the government.........
There’s one little problem with bringing back incandescent bulbs...all the U.S. factories making them closed up shop about eight years ago and shipped their equipment out of the U.S.
How about letting to consumer decide? But liberals want to control literally everything because they believe that THEY can run your life better than you.
Too bad my wife didn’t live long enough to see her prediction fulfilled. “They’ll be back,” she said, “they’ll be back.”
If they are a net good then households will buy them. Eliminating the "standards" forces them to compete in the market and reduce their price to consumers. If their cost and lifespan are reasonable, and the savings on energy costs assured, they will be adopted by the market. It's simple economics. We don't need what amounts to a subsidy on foreign light bulb makers via the pocket books of American consumers, especially when the market is capable of creating the same effect, especially not for this nonsensical "climate change" reason. Saving electricity and saving money is a good enough reason, we don't need to be snowed with this CC BS.
Before they forced these things down our throats, I used to always get approached by hard-sell clerks at the store. “Do you want to buy a lightbulb that will last for 40 years?” I always told them to get back to me in 40 years and let me know how that bulb made out. I’m sure that’s why they got the gubmint involved because otherwise they probably wouldn’t have sold more than 10 of them.