Posted on 01/23/2011 10:17:15 AM PST by TaxPayer2000
Last one out of California can turn it off.
Consumers will save money....especially when they all plug in their electric cars and they have to pay for the electric AND for the expansion of the Grid AND for new stringent criteria by the EPA.
The headlong drive to the stone age continues unabated.
Hmm. Think about that a while ~ electric lighting is totally man-made ~ it's no more natural than that pre-cooked artificial bacon and bacon byproduct stuff sold in boxes at room temperature!
Then there's "Wheat and Polenta Bread" used to make French Toast. Sure, that'll work ~ but why?
“energy-sucking”
Heh.
It has NOTHING to do with saving consumers money;it is ,like the government mandated digital TV and radio,simply a way to FORCE the consumer to spend more,thus keeping the factories in business.(Chinese factories,at that.)
“”These standards will help cut our nation’s electric bill by over $10 billion a year and will save the equivalent electricity as 30 large power plants,” said Noah Horowitz a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council. “That translates into a whole lot less global warming pollution being emitted.”
The left is telling a fairy tale about lighting technology. Consumers are rational for the large part. They will choose the lighting technology that best satisfies their needs. Consumers consider purchase price, longetivity, lighting quality, energy consumption and other features. Consumers would choose CFL, LED, and other new technologies appropriately. For prolonged lighting situations, these new technologies often are good alternatives. For non prolonged lighting situations, incandescants are often better.
There is no net benefit from restricting consumer choices. Consumers would already choose new technologies when appropriate. The left is forcing inappropriate choices, costing consumers large amounts. For a bathroom fixture that is operated for only short periods, new lighting technologies deliver little if any energy gains but cost consumers much higher amounts. In addition, some consumers value the light quality of incandescants. These consumers are willing to incur more energy energy usage for better light quality.
The incandescant ban is just another energy boondoggle alongside a growing list including ethanol, biofuels, wind power, solar power, ...
Good point. How many of these people pushing the mercury-laden (man-made) bulbs are also devotees of fake, soy-based “meat” products?
“The headlong drive to the stone age continues unabated.”
THAT is the real objective, turn CA and the USA into a third world stone age nation, by destroying our economy with insane government regulations.
The worst is that people are just sitting tight and putting up with it, and we’ll all be like frogs, getting slowly cooked to death, because this infringement on our freedoms is incremental — why should people get upset if the government tells you how much water you can use in your toilet, shower, what lightbulbs to use in your own house, these are just “small” things, and next thing we know we won’t have ANY freedoms left.
“federal standards the rest of the country will enact next year.”
And nobody is fighting this...
So will CA set up border stations to check people coming in for the old bulbs??
“No freedoms left” is exactly right, and furthermore, elections will be so rigged we won’t have a Congress to overturn anything.
“No freedoms left” is exactly right, and furthermore, elections will be so rigged we won’t have a Congress to overturn anything.
Rush Limbaugh had this video of a fireplace with a log burning ~ now that's "natural" ~ the rest is totally fake!
There's even fake bacon, and fake beef ~ they make "fake beef flavor" to put in the Heinz "pure nachurl" ketchup packets at McDonalds ~ but that beef flavor is made out of WHEAT and 3.54% of us can't eat wheat!
I have to take my own ketchup to McDonalds!
And you might ask why McDonald's put artificial beef flavor in ketchup? It was to make up for the fact they took the tallow out of the pure, vegetarian oil they fried their pure vegetarian potatoes in ~ and you know what tallow comes from, right? TRIGLYCERIDE FACTORIES (of course)!
NO IT DOESN'T. Tallow comes from cows! MOOOOOOOOOO! Cows make tallow. McDonald's melted it down and put it in oil. That flavored the french fries. Then, they took the tallow out of the french fry oil, so to "flavor" the fries they added it to the ketchup.
Fake. Fake. Fake and people are kvetching about their lightbulbs? They've even forgotten ALL LIGHTBULBS are fake.
Give me a firebrand anytime!
“These standards will help cut our nation’s electric bill by over $10 billion a year and will save the equivalent electricity as 30 large power plants,”
And they’ll spend all that and more by buying double lights and cleaning the toxic metals out of landfills.
Oh, and people will have less to pay for it as the new bulbs are only made in countries like China. The American incandescent bulb plants are all closing.
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