Posted on 11/27/2011 11:06:52 AM PST by jazusamo
Government ban on mercury-free fixtures takes effect Jan. 1
Within four weeks, it will be a crime to manufacture a 100-watt version of Thomas A. Edison’s brilliant invention. Thanks to a Democratic Congress and the signature of President George W. Bush in 2007, anti-industrial zealots at the Energy Department received authority to blot out one of the greatest achievements of the industrial age. They’re coming for our light bulbs.
Know-it-all bureaucrats insist that foisting millions of mercury-laden fluorescent tubes on the public is going to be good for the planet. The public obviously does not agree. Voting with their wallets, people have overwhelming favored warm, nontoxic lighting options over their pale curlicue imitators. Beginning Jan. 1, Obama administration extremists will impose massive financial penalties on any company daring to produce a lighting product that fully satisfies ordinary Americans.
The Republican House hasn’t done enough to stop this. Rep. Michael C. Burgess, Texas Republican, added language to the Energy and Water Appropriations bill to prohibit the ban’s implementation. A Senate committee deleted this sensible amendment in September, and it’s been quite a while since Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has allowed an up-or-down vote on a funding bill.
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At least you bought them, not left cartfuls sitting around like the OWS donkeys did in a stunt the other day.
EMP as in electro magnetic pulse? Has this been developed as a common light source yet?
A nation on LED lighting would be in the dark after an EMP attack, even with backup or hardened generation and distribution capacity. Tungsten filaments are unaffected by EMP.
We recently spent a week at Disney World. While sitting on the bed under a CFL light fixture, I was amazed at the amount of HEAT thrown off by that CFL! Which makes me wonder; since it requires ENERGY to produce HEAT; just how much MORE efficient ARE those CFLs....TRULY? When the COST of the CFL is considered; how much $$$ is REALLY saved by using them...not to even mention the ENVIRONMENTAL dangers they pose! Has it actually been tested, or is this just another scam that the US of A has swallowed, hook-line-and-sinker, without even verifying it first? That’s how we bought the AGW bullcrap story.....if we’re honest enough to admit it!
As usual, unconstitutional legislation is met with lots of whining giving way to abject compliance.
I bought 32 more 100 watts at Kroger on my latest beer run...
According to the U.S. EMP Commission, safeguards can be taken.... but our military doesn’t even bother any more. Thanks for the heads up.
If an led devise is turned off can it still be damaged?
Tungsten filaments are unaffected by EMP.
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Except thay there will be no power - after an effective EMP attack ... for years ...
any links to cheap lightbulbs? Need to be purchased before January 1st!
BUMP for information
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