Posted on 07/31/2023 8:49:05 AM PDT by algore
The Biden Administration will implement a ban on incandescent light bulbs starting next week in favor of energy-efficient bulbs, following a yearslong bipartisan effort to phase out the bulbs after earlier regulations and standards were blocked by former President Donald Trump.
The Department of Energy approved new rules for light bulbs last year that will take effect on August 1, including a new minimum standard for light bulbs at 45 lumens—or brightness—per watt, an increase over the average 12 to 18 lumens per watt for incandescent bulbs.
Retailers will be prohibited from selling any bulbs—including incandescent bulbs—that don’t match the new standard, though households using any existing bulb that does not meet the standard will not be required to stop using them.
The decision was meant to conserve energy and “help consumers save on their energy bills,” as more energy-efficient bulbs—like LEDs—use at least 75% less energy and last up to 25 times longer than incandescent bulbs, according to the department.
An effort to phase out less efficient bulbs was initiated by former President George W. Bush, whose Energy Independence and Security Act in 2007 called for household light bulbs to have “about 25% greater efficiency,” though it did not outright ban incandescent bulbs, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Former President Barack Obama added two new regulations to the act in 2017, which would have effectively phased out incandescent bulbs and other specialty bulbs, like candle-shaped bulbs used in chandeliers, by January 2020, according to the EPA.
The Department of Energy later blocked the regulations during Trump’s presidency in 2019, after Trump—who said energy-efficient bulbs Americans were “being forced to use” made him “look orange”
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A fool is someone who chooses to remain ignorant.
“In EV’s they do. {:~)”
In EV’s they’re new enough that they’re all LED, already.
They are pilfering the budgets everywhere, and one thing which will now deteriorate is the electric grid.
And as it is deteriorating, EVs will be placing more strain on it, and renewables will be vastly inferior, as the sun doesn’t always shine, and the wind doesn’t always blow. I suspect some bean counter figured out they could get an extra couple of years before rolling blackouts, if they can get all incandescents replaces by LEDs.
They might ban gas water heaters, too. CA did.
They are banned as of Sept2023
People should check out the Health risks/benefits of Halogen vs. LED lights.
True but I was referring to them requiring grid power.
You understand of course that logic should never even enter into discussions of green energy. The only real solution they are currently pursuing is the elimination of demand. They have more than one way to do that and believe me they are considering all of them.
“... I was referring to them requiring grid power.”
I fully understood that.
But, since EV’s all have LED lighting all the way around, and ONLY EV’s affect The Grid, including automotive bulbs in the legislative hate list doesn’t help The Grid one iota. There’s no demand, there, to eliminate.
As I noted, anyone thinking eliminating incandescent automotive bulbs is helpful to the environment anywhere, at all, ever is simply too deadly stupid to be permitted to continue sucking oxygen.
China BRIBES Biden. HOW MANY OF HUNTER'S PAINTINGS HAVE THEY BOUGHT?
Biden then implements POLICIES THAT HELP CHINA AND THIS BAN IS JUST ONE MORE EXAMPLE!
CHINA, CHINA, CHINA.. EFF CHINA!!!
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