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Congress bans incandescent bulbs
WorldNetDaily ^ | December 19, 2007` | WorldNetDaily

Posted on 12/19/2007 5:40:50 PM PST by kc8ukw

In addition to raising auto fuel efficiency standards 40 percent, an energy bill passed by Congress yesterday bans the incandescent light bulb by 2014.

President Bush signed the 822-page measure into law today after it was sent up Pennsylvania Avenue in a Toyota Prius hybrid vehicle. The House passed the bill by a 314-100 vote after approval by the Senate last week.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 110th; bulbs; carboncult; cfl; congress; congressdumbbulbs; democrats; dimbulbs; elections; energy; greenreligion; incandescent; lightbulb; lightbulbs; nannystate; startstockingup; stuckonstupid
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To: kc8ukw

“822-page measure” to give Edison the boot?

Used a lot of paper to save the planet didn’t they?


81 posted on 12/19/2007 6:01:19 PM PST by CrappieLuck
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To: Calpernia

Only if you work for Cargill or Perdue or other trash chicken producers.


82 posted on 12/19/2007 6:01:26 PM PST by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: txflake

that stuff ain’t chicken


83 posted on 12/19/2007 6:01:57 PM PST by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: kc8ukw

Gee, George... thanks, once again, for making me regret ever voting for your utterly useless self (twice!).

I HATE those florescent bulbs. I will NOT have light bulbs filled with mercury in my house that require a hazmat team and thousands of dollars of government mandated clean-up if (no, make that WHEN) I break one of them.

What friggin’ RIGHT does the damn government have to ban a harmless product anyway? Because that deranged, ambulatory hunk of blubber known as Algore claims that Edison’s invention is heating up the Earth and we’re all gonna die?

Screw that, screw you, George, for signing this, and screw the nanny state Congress for thinking it up (if you call that THINKING) in the first place.


84 posted on 12/19/2007 6:02:25 PM PST by Pravious
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To: Cobra64
These people need to do some research before passing dopey bills.

Never! They have been elected. That means they are now experts on everything.

85 posted on 12/19/2007 6:02:31 PM PST by RobinOfKingston (Man, that's stupid...even by congressional standards.)
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To: kc8ukw

More of our confiscated tax dollars down the rat hole.


86 posted on 12/19/2007 6:02:32 PM PST by gpapa
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To: ConservaTexan

That should be the price of admission


87 posted on 12/19/2007 6:02:40 PM PST by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: Ann Archy
LOOK...Bush HAD to sign this crappy bill because of funding the TROOPS for the WAR!! He does NOT have the LINE ITEM VETO. Don;t blame Bush BLAME YOUR FREAKING CONGRESSMAN....do you know their name???? Find it out and how they voted.

Reagan used the line-item veto even though he didn't "have" it.

Take a deep breath and come up with another excuse.

88 posted on 12/19/2007 6:02:44 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: P8riot

You gonna show me how to get a hen to sit on lizard eggs?


89 posted on 12/19/2007 6:03:05 PM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: P8riot; Calpernia

What about Hollywood? How will the ‘talent’ react to being filmed only with fluorescent?


90 posted on 12/19/2007 6:03:41 PM PST by txhurl (Yes there were WMDs)
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To: kc8ukw
I'm all for any technology advancing, but this is is nothing more than jack-booted authoritarian horseshit. Any time these sub-simian cretins find a way to stick their beaks into the essence of our existence, they do it. I have seen nothing under Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution that authorizes these bottom-feeders to ban Jack Squat.


91 posted on 12/19/2007 6:04:00 PM PST by Viking2002 (Waterboarding the Left every chance I get.)
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To: Pravious

Blame your damned CONGRESS! What do you think, that Bush WROTE the bill? GEESG.


92 posted on 12/19/2007 6:04:05 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: kc8ukw

Glad to see that congress is doing the peoples work /sarc


93 posted on 12/19/2007 6:04:08 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: kc8ukw

They banned a light bulb? Whew, I’m glad I can sleep soundly tonite again knowing that my public servants are looking out for my best interests and safety.

Glad our federal and state officials are taking care of those important things like banning guns, cigarette smoking, light bulbs, taxing soft drinks, taking more of my money, sending jobs overseas, allowing our country to be overtaken by illegals.

Sweet dreams everyone.


94 posted on 12/19/2007 6:04:09 PM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: Pravious

Any delusional souls out there that still believe we live in a free country?


95 posted on 12/19/2007 6:04:10 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Sacajaweau

Just don’t use any leaves that came in three’s. ;^)


96 posted on 12/19/2007 6:04:24 PM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: Sacajaweau

Funny, Canada will be where we smuggle in our lightbulbs from when this goes into effect.


97 posted on 12/19/2007 6:04:36 PM PST by dan1123 (You are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. --Jesus)
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To: elkfersupper

You are ignorant of what happened....it has been slapped down in the Supreme Court...OMG>


98 posted on 12/19/2007 6:04:55 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: kc8ukw

It won’t stand.

It will be undone or modified, God willing.


99 posted on 12/19/2007 6:05:29 PM PST by Petronski (Reject the liberal superfecta: huckabee, romney, giuliani, mccain)
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To: txflake

Great point!! HOLLYWOOD IS NOT going to like these FLOURESCENT BULBS!!


100 posted on 12/19/2007 6:05:42 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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