Stock up now!
Oh man if this is for real they will be pummeled with.........
"how many democrats does it take to change a light bulb?" jokes.
The LIGHT COMPANY here in Mexico, COMISION FEDERAL DE ELECTRICIDAD, has had a campaign to make availabe at subsidized prices, the use of florescent bulbs that screw in. I think a halogen bulb that produces little heat would be a better preference.
I guess they went from "first" to "last" choice in 24 hours.
Good way to stay classy.
admitted - I use very few incandescent anymore - i have switched to compact fluorescents mainly because I am lazy and they don't blow out as much and I don't have to get up and change them as much. But for that reason only.
Has anyone developed a normal looking fluorescent light bulb to replace the incandescent types? All I have see are those huge ugly twisted ones that won't fit under common lamp shades.
Brought to you by the same clowns who gave you low-flush (no-flush) toilets.
Buy up the old bulbs now - they will be as valuable as freon soon.
Oh, boy. Lightbulb legislation. The dems used to be the "mommy party," now they're the "granny party." Like lightbulbs are the biggest danger to the American people. These dems and their wimpy RINO friends are an absolute waste of time.
Am I mistaken or isn't their certain neurological conditions where use of fluorescent lights can induce seizures in certain individuals??
If so, it would seem that Democrates may be discriminating against the disabled.
The market itself will bring about the eventual demise of incandescent light bulbs.
Light bulbs are OK, we should have a bill to ban dim bulbs in Congress.
How many Democrats does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Don't know, but we'll soon find out how many it takes to unscrew a light bulb.
You have GOT to be kidding me.
(Oh, and the jokes write themselves...)
Now I can sit on my inferior crapper in the dark!
But how will people use their Easy bake Ovens?
Cripes they messed with toilet tanks , now light bulbs!
Fluorescent light bulbs contain a drop of mercury. I wonder if they take that into account?
I have a few of these dim bulbs. I use them for desk lamps where you need little light and the heat is not welcome. I tried them in overhead lights, Walmart had a sale recently, they now reside in unused closet areas. The costs are high.
"An average traditional incandescent bulb based on a filament emits 12-15 lumens per watt (a measurement of the bulb's lighting output.) Harman's bill would require all bulbs to produce 60 lumens-per-watt by January 2012; 90 lumens-per-watt by January 2016; and 120 lumens-per-watt by January 2020."
120 lumens per watt? Is that even physically possible? OK, just went and looked it up, and it is. No currently commercially available home lighting source reaches that level of efficiency, however, unless you want to light your house with arc or gas discharge lamps. In fact, apparently even current compact fluorescent bulbs come up a little short of the 60 lumens per watt figure, you'd have to go to fluorescent tubes to reach that.
Politicians should be banned from sticking their fingers into the technology pie like this. They're not qualified to make such decisions, nevermind the fact that they're grossly overstepping the proper bounds on their power.
$2000 to dispose of a broken florescent bulb
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