Posted on 08/30/2009 8:20:53 PM PDT by Shellybenoit
The incandescent light bulb has only two years to live. As part of the 2007 Energy bill, the bulbs must be phased out between 2012 and 2014. And the bill is already having a negative effect on American Industry:
Last month, GE announced it will close the Winchester Bulb Plant 80 miles west of D.C. As a result, 200 men and women will lose their jobs. GE is also shuttering incandescent factories in Ohio and Kentucky, axing another 200 jobs.
GE blamed environmental regulations for the closing. The first paragraph of the company’s July 23 press release explained:
“A variety of energy regulations that establish lighting efficiency standards are being implemented in the U.S. and other countries, in some cases this year, and will soon make the familiar lighting products produced at the Winchester Plant obsolete.”
The truth is the GE Plant being closed is falling victim of legislation that GE Pushed through.... As for the rest of us, there is a different problem, the fluorescent bulbs just don't give off enough light. The real story is for a very small benefit to the environment, the United States is willing to throw people out of work, and ruin the eyesight of the rest of us:
(Excerpt) Read more at yidwithlid.blogspot.com ...
These people are getting flushed down the ‘environmentally friendly’ toilet.
GE is also shuttering incandescent factories in Ohio and Kentucky, axing another 200 jobs.
Well, it’s not like we NEED the jobs...
Thank you George W. Bush.
I will burn candles in my home before I will use the lightbulb dictated by the government. What happened to your freedom?
Thank you, Congress.
I have a good stock of incandescents now. The fluorescents save me some money for lights on most of the night. But for short on time applications, bathrooms, closets, storage rooms, they are a pain to wait for them to light up.
Liberals are forever preaching “compassion”, and yet the laws they pass cause misery.
Blamed environmental regulations from the people it supprts to this day. Lets them close down US jobs and move factories to China.
I guess green jobs are a negative value.
So they can then step in and rescue us.
book mark
The esthetics takes some getting used to, but two 32-watt, 48” fluorescent tubes make an excellent replacement for a 60-watt incandescent bulb. Our house glows like something out of E.T. since we made the switch.
You get about 4x the lumens for the same wattage, and the new generation of fluorescent fixtures don’t have any annoying hum or 60 Hz migraine-producing effect. “Ott” lights, using similar technology, make excellent reading lamps.
While I’m not saving on electricity, the visibility is awesome.
Liberals are little control freaks... mean nasty petty control freaks.
“I will burn candles in my home before I will use the lightbulb dictated by the government. What happened to your freedom?”
It was lost in the transition from Republic to Democracy...
“Liberals are little control freaks... mean nasty petty control freaks.”
Leftists have managed to produce over 120 million killed in less than a hundred years...thats what I call needing to be in control...
Next thing you know, the government will be setting up a “Department of Candles”. I’ve said it before, I feel like I’m living in an Ayn Rand novel in an Orwellian nightmare.
Liberals want to control what we (middle class Americans) eat, smoke, listen to on radio, read in newspapers, write on the net, put in our light sockets, put in our cars etc.
When it come to them - liberals want total freedom. They defend the "rights" of pedophiles, criminals, pornographers, every brand of lowlife known to man... drug addicts, welfare cheats, gangbangers...
We have been buying incandescent bulbs and hoarding them for almost a year. 60 watt, 75 watt and 100 watt -— we have a closet full.
Every time I go shopping I buy a few more incandescents. This home will not be without incandescent light in my lifetime. I’d advise everyone else to do the same.
This is a free country and I have the permits, licenses, stamps, tags, stickers, background checks and tax receipts to prove it.
GE are Obama shills. Disgusting company. BEtter load up on regular light bulbs. What a joke.
This Sh!t really makes me f-ing sick.
I’ve been stocking up on bulbs.
frigging ridiculous.
I’ve been stocking up on the 100w bulbs for future use.
Some of the newer compact fluroscents are actually pretty good. Although the liht quality is still not as good ad regular bulbs. But especially outdoor floods(I have a few) have saved me on my electric bill. I put the CF’s in the basement and outside and my bill has gone down.
GE blamed environmental regulations for the closing.
Regulations they helped write!!!
Dump Immelt and the board at the next shareholders meeting.
Don’t know about the light bulbs but these 1.5 gallon toilets aren’t cutting it....
Rumble.
Excuse me.
For me the flours’s = instant migraine headache. I can take about forty minutes before the aura’s start and then it is Fiorcet and bed rest.
Time to start hoarding!
How long are they good for?
...terrorists, murderers, drunkards, commiecritters, liars, ineligible presidential candidates, czars, treason...
They are miserable, neglected, self-loathing, envious, vengeful, souls that just want all of humanity to suffer and die.
And we all know where they get THAT from.
But they stupid looking spaghetti bulbs are awful in chandeliers and cannot support a chandelier shade. I hope some country continues to make them and exports them. I pray I don’t have to drive to Mexico to get bulbs.
But hasn't your electric company already installed the "Smart Meters" in you area? They have here..and it's all about controlling our useage in the near future. Imagine the long arm of the government throwing the main switch on your house because you went over your peak for that hour.
It's not about saving energy--its about controlling the little people. Had enough of this yet?
"Green" is the New Red.
Stock up while they’re cheap.
Yep, those green jobs sure are helping families.
Mahogany furniture looks by far the best under incandescent light.
Further, these flourescent lights will aggravate seasonal affective disorder in northern locations—where, by the way, the heat from incandescent bulbs does not go to waste.
So instead of a single 60 watt bulb to heat the pump house or the chicken house I will now need to install heaters.
We started hoarding bulbs a few months ago.... I refuse to change over.
Well that’s fine and dandy, it’s your right. If it suits, you, cool.
What isn’t ok is the government taking away our options, especially when there are clear practical reasons for having it.
Besides, CFL’s have mercury. The jury is still out on whether this is ‘better for the environment.’ and that’s only if you buy into Global Warming nonsense in the first place.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Wake up!
America's runaway population growth--which is 99% from immigrants and their offspring--is costing us our freedom in small steps.
Before you know it, you will be herded into population centers (cities) to live in human anthills (apartment houses) because such living conserves resources.
That will be after they tax single family homes (like they now tax cigarettes) out of existence, that they may use the land for growing food, nature museums, and the like.
At the rate of population growth, this will be the fate of Americans by mid-century, if not sooner.
Unless the government greatly reduces the number of LEGAL immigrants allowed in each year (and the government won't).
Not in my area yet. One of the former owners of my house put in the Kansas Power & Light Co. thermostat that regulates the air and it PI**ES me off. So many mornings I wake up hotter than hell because the thermostat is up way too high.
I think I will fill my storage unit with incandescent bulbs.
Yep same here. Just the 45’s and 60’s though. 75 and 100 my wife says are too bright, and yes my eyesight has suffered.
Psssttt. My cousin, he bring up a load of the light bulbs from Mexico. We sell them cheap, man. Give everyone plenty of watts, man. Tell no one please, we go to get the next shipment soon.
The Boston Tea Party comes to mind.
That is what is needed here...
A whole truckload of them needs to be destroyed on the highway... one by one...
forcing a haz-mat environmental team to clean up all the mercury. Then lets see what the environmentalists have to say about that.
Can it be ripped off the wall and mailed back to KP&L?
It is a crying shame that so many people are being duped by the global warming hoax. The fact that there is no warming doesn't stop them, the fact that they can not get their computer models to demonstrate what has already happened doesn't stop them. The fact that they have no empirical evidence that CO2 is even a cause for the warming that isn't occurring, They can not even explain why they think that the present temperature is the right and best temperature for the earth.
They are insane, and all those who go along with the hoax are self delusional fools. Unfortunately there are many fools in this world.
I think it costs some money to do it. I’m going to check it out again.
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