Posted on 12/16/2011 8:29:47 AM PST by CedarDave
As part of last night's omnibus budget bill which prevented government shutdown, Republicans won a small victory: they suspended the incandescent light bulb ban. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle bowed to widespread public pressure, as the American people made it clear they weren't interested in this literal government intrusion into their livingrooms.
Congressional Republicans dropped almost all of the policy restrictions they tried to attach to the bill, but won inclusion of the light bulb provision, which prevents the Obama administration from carrying through a 2007 law that would have set energy efficiency standards that effectively made the traditional light bulb obsolete.
The bill doesn’t actually amend the 2007 law, but does prohibit the administration from spending any money to carry out the light bulb standards — which amounts to at least a temporary reprieve.
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Signed into law by George W. Bush, who apparently never met a piece of Federal environmental overreach into American homes that he did not like. (it’s the reason you can no longer buy a clothes washer that actually works, and stores that sell used and reconditioned washers are doing a booming business)
There’s a reason it’s a republic not a democracy. It’s not supposed to be mob rule, there’s supposed to be a layer of separation for cooler heads to prevail and say “well if the people really think incandescent are bad they’ll stop buying them and there’s no reason to outlaw them.” So much for that.
I read somewhere that a survivalist insulated his home with thousands of 100W lamp bulbs tucked in his walls and attic.....its the vacuum thingy for insulation.
Exactly. All this means is that the feds will not be trying to shut down the black market at least right now, but legitimate manufacturers and retailers will not be selling products that are against the law on the books.
We'll have to rely on the Mexicans to bring them over the border along with the drugs and the illegals.
How many lives will be sacrificed as Mexican criminal cartels fight over the control of trafficking corridors of 100W light bulbs?
crap- i just bought a couple of boxes at Home Depot last week for my recessed lighting...
Ask your neighborhood dope dealer(s)
Excellent !!!
Now we need to get the federal government out of the toilet flush water regulatory business, so I can finally purchase a toilet that flushes on the first push of the lever.
Exactly. Complete and total agreement here.
Hopefully, Republican voters are starting to wake up and decide “You know, the Republican Party has installed more than a few morons into office too....”
Sadly, I don’t see any of the POTUS candidates that are left in the GOP field to be anything but.
Sigh.
I like Bachmann and Santorum because they aren’t willing to pander to the “moderates”.
I’m with Rush. Screw the moderates, if they can’t vote for a real conservative then they can vote for Obama and prove that they aren’t really moderate at all. Its a showdown that we need to have.
Common sense is breaking out all over. Steven Chu says that “we are keeping people from wasting their own money”. Unlike Steve Chu who has no problem wasting $500 million of taxpayer money on a hairbrained scheme like Solyndra.
I do not consider it a waste of money, I consider a convenience, I am buying a product that I prefer, that I can throw in the trash when it fails. I may not have a Nobel Prize, but I know what I like and I do *not* Dr. Chu to tell me how to live.
While they’re both consistent conservatives, neither one has the mental horsepower to understand the scope, reach and magnitude of the staggering financial fraud being executed on Wall Street in the last several years.
I’ll give Romney and Paul points for understanding more than most of the rest. I had hoped Cain would turn out differently than he did, because he seemed to have a fair grasp of the situation.
The problem now is that we’re coming down to a run-off of the latest incarnation of the “anyone but Romney” trend, and Romney. The latest “Anyone But Romney” is Newt. There isn’t enough time for someone else to jump up in the polling... so I suspect that this primary season will come down to millions of GOP primary voters deciding “Should I vote for Romney? Or write in the species of roadkill I saw on my way to the polling place?”
Good man.
“I just bought 24 100W bulbs this week dammit”
Don’t feel bad I was getting ready to go stock up at Home Depot myself.
I hate to have to admit that the stellar accomplishment of the GOP in 2011 was saving the traditional light bulb. Sad but true.
I’m a historian not a scientist, Jim!!!
If they would only defund enforcement at the source...the IRS.
LOL
Hear!! Hear!!
“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.”
You can buy all the five-gallon flush toilets you want across the border in Canada. Just list them as lawn ornaments on the form.
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