Posted on 01/12/2011 5:34:05 AM PST by Libloather
Coble seeks repeal of light bulb standard
By Mark Binker
Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 (Updated 8:06 am)
GREENSBORO — U.S. Rep. Howard Coble is among those urging colleagues in Congress to turn off the lights on a controversial provision of the 2007 energy bill.
The Greensboro Republican is a co-sponsor of a bill to repeal what some refer to — erroneously — as the incandescent bulb ban. Texas Reps. Joe Barton and Michael Burgess and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, all Republicans, were the original sponsors of the repeal measure.
The legislation is a long way from passing, but it is in keeping with Republican pledges to roll back laws they see as interfering with personal freedoms.
“It seems to me the Congress and the government is inserting its oars in waters where it doesn’t need to go,” Coble said Tuesday, adding that people ought to choose which kind of light bulb they want to use for themselves.
“This ought to be a personal decision rather than being an edict from on high.”
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What’s wrong with you?!!!!
Don’t you [libwhine]”CARE ABOUT THE ERF!!!????”[/libwhine]
Looks like he voted for the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. He is not on the cosponsors list.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.00006:
I stocked up enough just for myself, plus a few more to sell at exhorbitant prices to my libinlaws.
Way to go! When it comes to libs charge what the market will bear! That’s what the Gubbermint unions do.
I use a few compact fluorescents for outside night time illumination. None are allowed inside
Thanks for the tip! I never knew about the durable bulbs. I’ve used “severe duty” bulbs in my droplight for years and they are a huge plus when working in dark areas.
Thomas Edison`s Body Disinterred by Federal Bulbous Police
Looking for Clandestine Electrical Candles
10-year bulbs last longer because they run cooler. This means they are dimmer and ‘warmer’ in color. A 100-W one produces about 1030 lumens. A regular 100-W bulb produces about 1750 lumens.
This means that a 100-W 10-year bulb, at 1030 lumens, is giving out less light than a 75-W regular bulb, at about 1100 lumens.
While they’re at it, how about a repeal of the low-flow, multi-flush, water-wasting, makes-the-bowl-filthier-and-hard-to-clean-toilet too.
Thanks for posting that hospitality industry URL. Maybe I’ll stock up on some of those...
Have there been any legal challenges to this idiocy before this? If not, I’m kind of surprised. I did stock up on incandescent bulbs, but I think I’m about half-way through my stock. Must. Get. More. Working under fluorescents gives me a headache.
Article stunk, though, I could have done without the editiorializing from the fool who wrote it.
Me too. They don't eat or drink anything, though. I'll still be able to use them. :-)
Bought one, already, to replace a bulb in a really hard-to-get-at fixture at Mom and Dad's place. Was worth the expense, so that I didn't come over there to find Dad teetering on one foot at the top of a 10-foot-ladder, balanced on a phone book, resting on a chair, etc etc etc to replace the bulb. "I just don't like to bother you.", he said, like falling and breaking his neck wouldn't be a bother, too.
But, I digress. At $40 or so a pop, I'm not buying them anytime soon for every other fixture in the house.
I see your point. We have a ceiling light over our inside staircase, and it's a real pain to get to. I don't have a tall ladder, and I'm scared of heights, so I moved a floor lamp to one corner of the landing.
When we're out of here (hopefully by the end of this year), the landlady can worry about how to replace that bulb.
Yep, that'd be the one that I replaced for Mom and Dad. No idea why builders put it there, it's even a stretch for me with a 16' ladder. Especially when moving the fixture a few feet closer to the top of the stair would make for easier replacement, and not change the lighting at all.
I prefer your solution: "Get a floor lamp. Let the landlady worry about it." :-)
The air conditioner filter is in the ceiling at the top of the stairs... and while it's not over the stairway itself, it's still close enough to give me the willies were I to change the filter myself. My significant other does that chore, and watching him still gives me the willies.
It'd be nicer if builders could put such things where they're easier to get to. I'm taller than my guy, and it's still a stretch for me.
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