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First, they came for our 100-watt bulbs
NEW YORK POST ^ | December 1, 2011 | CLAUDIA ROSETT

Posted on 12/02/2011 11:37:19 PM PST by george76

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1 posted on 12/02/2011 11:37:21 PM PST by george76
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To: george76

About 6 months ago I bought three hundred 100W bulbs online for $0.79 each.
I also stocked up on reflector bulbs for my ceilings and 3 ways for my bedside lamps.


2 posted on 12/02/2011 11:41:41 PM PST by MistrX
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To: LucyT; neverdem

If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival.

There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

— Winston Churchill


3 posted on 12/02/2011 11:45:06 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76
I've read quite a few diatribes attempting to mitigate the real danger of heavy metal poisoning. I do indeed hate liars.
4 posted on 12/02/2011 11:51:48 PM PST by allmost (?)
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To: george76

There will be a thriving black market from Mexico and Canada.

What else would one expect?


5 posted on 12/02/2011 11:59:19 PM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (REPEAL WASHINGTON! -- Islam Delenda Est! -- I Want Constantinople Back. -- Rumble thee forth.)
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To: george76

About 10 years ago I went on an energy saving kick, and changed out most of the bulbs in the house to florescents. Now, for every one of the damn things that crap out on us, there’s a mini celebration! What an annoying, off color, awful light comes out of them!


6 posted on 12/03/2011 12:08:31 AM PST by QBFimi (When gunpowder speaks, beasts listen.)
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The cfls are blatantly inferior. Color alone should be enough to tell most people with healthy vision. The ‘warm up’ is an added bonus.
7 posted on 12/03/2011 12:14:15 AM PST by allmost
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To: george76

It probably wasn’t causative but many of us in the Fed or the military blamed the mid-1970s energy consciousness for the decline of our vision as they loosened or removed every other fluorescent tube from our overhead lighting. I began wearing glasses in 1976.


8 posted on 12/03/2011 12:16:50 AM PST by jimfree (In Nov 2012 Herman Cain will have more relevant and quality executive experience than Barack Obama)
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To: george76
Decorative 400 watt space heater

Replacement elements

9 posted on 12/03/2011 12:19:48 AM PST by ApplegateRanch (Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946...and thankful for it!)
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To: george76

Last weekend I was hunting for the 95 watt bulbs that replaced the 100 watters. I looked at Home Depot and Lowes to no avail. They have some new hybrid bulb using halogen inside an incand. looking bulb with thr pitch that 72watts equal 100. It costs several dollars extra.


10 posted on 12/03/2011 12:23:27 AM PST by catbertz (Easter egg...I wants it.)
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To: catbertz

Halogens are generally hot. FYI.


11 posted on 12/03/2011 12:42:30 AM PST by allmost
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To: george76
Yeah, but what really irks is that it was a "well-meaning" albeit MORON, Republican (Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) who co-authored the Bill and pushed for its passage, never mind, our "Compassionate Conservative" DOLT, President Boosh who like so many other stoooopid, pieces of legislation he signed (rather than veto) makes it that much more painful.

AND what has our Republican-Controlled House done to repeal this do date? Why have they not added a rider to a "Must Pass" piece of Legislation to rescind this onerous law?

They are (almost all) afraid of their own shadows, the wusses!

12 posted on 12/03/2011 3:03:31 AM PST by Conservative Vermont Vet (l)
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As for heat and hot water, the energy waste could be cut dramatically by the simple expedient of issuing draconian quotas, taking into account that the need for heating can be greatly reduced by wearing parkas, hats and gloves indoors at all times.

Jimmy Carter's stupid blue cardigan on steroids.

13 posted on 12/03/2011 3:12:13 AM PST by livius
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To: catbertz
looked at Home Depot and Lowes to no avail

I've been stocking up on 100-watt bulbs at Walmart in Salem, NH -- pack of 4 (no name that I can see) for 94 cents. They work fine and seem to last longer than the old GE that seemed to go every other day or so.

Are 150-watt not included in the ban? I prefer them for reading, especially in the winter months. Just in case, I stocked up on them from bulbs.com (I never knew there were so many kinds of light bulbs!).

14 posted on 12/03/2011 3:18:38 AM PST by maryz
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

I don’t see a black market springing up. Even if one did, it won’t last very long because light bulb manufacturers have already stopped making the incandescent bulbs that would be outlawed at the first of the year across North America.


15 posted on 12/03/2011 3:25:55 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (You have entered an invalid birthday)
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To: maryz

Been stocking up too. I stay away from Sylvania bulbs because they don’t have a very long lifespan and pop on a brownout.


16 posted on 12/03/2011 3:27:16 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (You have entered an invalid birthday)
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To: george76

“Yet here we are, wards of the nanny state, with politicians dictating that even that prime symbol of American ingenuity”

The author is a coward and conveniently refrains from mentioning that this light bulb issue was due to the GOP and Dumbo Dubya.


17 posted on 12/03/2011 3:27:16 AM PST by KantianBurke (Where was the Tea Party when Dubya was spending like a drunken sailor?)
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To: george76

I have been studying the different lights... Incandescences are cheap and give good warm and cool lights but 85% of the cost of running them is from the heat they produce. The “squiggly” ones are also going to be phased out; which is fine with me ‘cause I hate them and they contain mercury. There is a light on the horizon coming into production that will be great when it finally gets here...it is the LEDs. They are expensive right now, but will cut your electric bill in half because they do not produce any heat at all. Also, they are suppose to last at least 10 years. Can you imagine not changing a light bulb for 10 years? Companies that have installed them are saying that they are saving from 50 to 85% cost on their lighting bills.

Finally, the LEDs are being produced in cool and warm white, and are also being made in the tube (fluorescent). I expect the cost of these lights will come down in the next couple of years....I am looking forward to that. I actually tested three bulbs...a 60w, a 60W squiggly, and a 20 Lumens LED (the equivalent); within 30 seconds the 60W was too hot to touch, the squiggly was also hot, but the LED was as cool as it was before I screwed it in. This is a wonderful thing, as it won’t rot your lampshades any more!


18 posted on 12/03/2011 3:39:59 AM PST by native texan (Hard work, faith, thrift and one more word..."honesty")
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To: george76
In order to honor the wishes of the greens, I'm going to eliminate all my electric lamps and return to more time-honored methods of lighting my house...


19 posted on 12/03/2011 3:41:08 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: george76

Great quote!


20 posted on 12/03/2011 3:50:28 AM PST by EmilyGeiger
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