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Rejoice: Incandescent Light Bulb Ban Suspended
Townhall.com ^ | December 16, 2011 | Kate Hicks

Posted on 12/16/2011 8:29:47 AM PST by CedarDave

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1 posted on 12/16/2011 8:29:49 AM PST by CedarDave
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How did Fred Upton vote?


2 posted on 12/16/2011 8:31:36 AM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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YAY!!! My mom has been stockpiling light bulbs for a year now. Her garage looks like a wholesale club.


3 posted on 12/16/2011 8:32:01 AM PST by RedCell (Honor thy Father (9/6/07) - Semper Fi / "...it is their duty, to throw off such government...")
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And yet Obama can detain Americans with the military...


4 posted on 12/16/2011 8:32:16 AM PST by af_vet_rr
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I just bought 24 100W bulbs this week dammit.


5 posted on 12/16/2011 8:32:16 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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Whew! This saved us a ton of money, we were getting ready to majorly stock up on the incandescent bulbs tomorrow.


6 posted on 12/16/2011 8:33:16 AM PST by madison10
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Like there’s nothing more important to legislate in Mordor...


7 posted on 12/16/2011 8:33:45 AM PST by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: CedarDave

Yay! I had a feeling it would go this way. The war against this stupidity isn’t won, but at least this skirmish went my way. I haven’t been stockpiling. So, in this, I won my bet.


8 posted on 12/16/2011 8:34:27 AM PST by Jemian
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But they didn’t overturn the ban. All they did was defund any enforcement.

How many manufacturers and retailers are going to want to keep making a selling a product that is still technically illegal?


9 posted on 12/16/2011 8:34:31 AM PST by EternalVigilance
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Here in California, we’ve already walked off the eco-cliff. Last week, I tried finding 100 watt bulbs at the local Home Depot and they said they no longer carry them. I’m pretty sure it has to do with the state of California acting on its own and banning 100 watt bulbs.


10 posted on 12/16/2011 8:34:40 AM PST by vbmoneyspender
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I wonder how many light bulb manufacturers went out of business in anticipation of the ban?


11 posted on 12/16/2011 8:35:02 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (FOREIGN AID: A transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries)
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Suspension is not nearly enough.

Was the 55 mph speed limit suspended?

12 posted on 12/16/2011 8:35:35 AM PST by Paladin2
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Of course, they couldn’t be bothered to do this until after the last American manufacturer shut down their production line.


13 posted on 12/16/2011 8:35:45 AM PST by Stegall Tx (Living off your tax dollars can be kinda fun, but not terribly profitable.)
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I despise those sqiggly florescent light bulbs for reading by. I stocked up on GE Reveal full spectrum bulbs but did not go overboard.


14 posted on 12/16/2011 8:36:57 AM PST by dennisw (A nation of sheep breeds a government of Democrat wolves!)
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To: CedarDave

What happened to the XL pipeline?


15 posted on 12/16/2011 8:37:29 AM PST by Paladin2
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Now if they would also allow us to buy toilets that work properly and don’t need to be cleaned daily because they hold virtually no water in them. That’s another favorite example of government micromanagement of our lives.


16 posted on 12/16/2011 8:38:10 AM PST by Liberty1970 (Skepticism and Close-mindedness are two very different things.)
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I am sure organized crime is disappointed as contraband light bulbs could have been a hot product for bootlegging along with cigarettes and high flow toilets.


17 posted on 12/16/2011 8:38:24 AM PST by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that pretty soon you run out of other people's money" M. Thatcher)
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All of them. Lots of jobs lost. If there are “green jobs” are there “green jobless”.


18 posted on 12/16/2011 8:38:43 AM PST by Locomotive Breath
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Political posturing. How many manufacturers are now equipped to produce these two weeks before the ban was to go into effect? And how confident are they that it won’t return anytime soon?

Thanks, Republicans — too little, too late.


19 posted on 12/16/2011 8:38:43 AM PST by DJ Frisat
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“Republicans won a small victory: they suspended the incandescent light bulb ban”...

Repubics!...Please!...Take on the bigger battles!...small steps at first I guess...


20 posted on 12/16/2011 8:39:30 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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