I’m not surprised RATS are baning bulbs but just when was this law passed and how?
Want to bet these guys are union and perennially vote for Democrats?
Like the low-flow toilets, I suspect the New Green bulb and the Mercury toxin will be repealed when common sense returns to the US....if it ever does. Also a prime example of bills so massive, 'little things' like killing industry here and shipping jobs to China get passed.
An image keeps popping into my mind of an attitude ridden “youth”, with pants down around his *ss, standing in my living room, looking into my lamp shades and checking out my thermostat setting! (shutter)
You know, if somebody walked into a metropolitan skyscraper and ‘accidentally’ broke one of these compact fluorescent bulbs on the floor in front of the guard station - precipitating the evacuation of the entire building due to “chemical hazards” - then it might just make an important point to this nation.
Personally I like the CFLs if they’re high quality (which is another issue) but the stupidity surrounding this issue is astounding.
Market forces should dictate the extinction if the incandescent bulb, not eco regulations. The very same regulations that are killing the incandescent bulbs are sending manufacture of CFLs to China meaning we can’t get anything but the cheap CFLs which really suck.
We just moved into a house. The previous owners (who were liberals) put the fluorescents bulbs in every ceiling fixture in the house. The difference in heat the bulbs produce has turned all the fixtures a most unwholesome shade of yellow AND almost no light. We have to replace every single fixture.
Be forewarned, some fabrics and some plastics respond very badly to the fluorescents bulbs.
In addition I hate the light. We’ve been stocking up on the other kind of bulbs.