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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

Include me among those crazed Americans who can’t walk into Home Depot, Target or my local grocery store right now without wanting to grab a king-sized shopping cart and stuff it to the gunwales with 100-watt incandescent light bulbs.

Maybe it’s the sheer thrill of buying bulbs that in just a month, as of Jan. 1, 2012, will be banned for sale in America. What fun, in this incandescent twilight, to acquire legally what the federal government will soon treat as contraband. Or maybe it’s that gut sense that with the dollar teetering, those beloved old 100-watt bulbs will at least provide a decent store of value, even if all I do is use them to read by for the rest of my life.

First the 100-watt incandescents will vanish from the shelves. Then the 75-watt, the 60-watt and 40-watt...

Presumably, federal authorities will now be spending US tax dollars (excuse me — “creating jobs”) to deploy light-bulb cops.

For decades, America has been the world’s beacon of freedom. Yet here we are, wards of the nanny state, with politicians dictating that even that prime symbol of American ingenuity, Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb, shall be regulated into oblivion. All this has been ably exposed as an act of crony capitalism, designed to enrich manufacturers who prefer to sell pricier light bulbs that a lot of Americans, if free to choose, prefer not to buy.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: envirowhackos; freedom; incandescent; lightbulbs; nannystate; radicalleft
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To: redpoll

My kids need to do a report on someone from the Civil Rights era. I thought maybe on the owner of the Woolworths(?) where they didn’t let the blacks sit in certain sections would be interesting. Then went on a rant on how if some store owner doesn’t want to serve blacks in his store - that should be HIS right. And while probably a stupid business move, and one that I would not do myself - it is his property!

And from there it has gone downhill, with the government telling private property owners that they can’t have smoking in their restaurants, outlawing over-easy eggs (New Jersey - at least when I live there years ago), etc.

If I can manage to get my rant up again I’ll bring up the light bulbs too! And all because of Martin Luther King!! ;)


61 posted on 12/04/2011 12:24:36 AM PST by 21twelve
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To: gleeaikin

I tried the cfl’s. The only light I use all the time is one for reading, and I found, though the light bill went down a couple of dollars with the cfl, it bothered my eyes more and more. It was such a relief to go back to an incandescent — my eyes seemed 10 years younger!


62 posted on 12/04/2011 2:17:53 AM PST by maryz
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To: george76

A 60 and a 40 add up to 100.


63 posted on 12/04/2011 4:26:27 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Utah Binger

The LEDs will replace incandescants with NO ‘help’ from Government: Technology always does.

(Now if I can find my old old water fuel carburator design that I found in an old manual from the army surplus store in Roswell - I’ll see if I can modify it to use LEDs...)


64 posted on 12/04/2011 4:37:51 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: mkleesma

I get all my HOLIDAY lights AFTER the holiday is over. LOTS cheaper that way (If I keep them away from the goats, that is.)


65 posted on 12/04/2011 4:44:38 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Utah Binger
And if some bright American actually started manufacturing the product in America......well that's a topic foe another time.

As long as it's cheaper to SHIP them here than BUILD them here...

Economics ALWAYS prevails in the long run.

66 posted on 12/04/2011 4:46:16 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Peet

I’ve some squigglies in outdoor lights that are hard to get to, replacement wise.

About useless in cold weather until they warm up. May as well have a candle!


67 posted on 12/04/2011 4:49:22 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: gleeaikin
I have clipped a 125 watt heat lamp bulb to my headboard and use if for reading and keeping warm when I set my bedroom thermostat to 60 degrees.

Be VERY careful!


68 posted on 12/04/2011 4:53:39 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: thesearethetimes...
May God guide our course.

Oh, HE is!

But His ear is probably attuned to the more than 1,000,000 yearly that we kill for CONVIENCE that it is to us spineless whiners.

69 posted on 12/04/2011 4:57:02 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: maryz

Dang!

What kind of ‘light’ is coming from my laptop screen right now!

WhatEVER it is; it causes me to lose MANY manhours a year and my BUTT to enlarge!

Who do I sue??


70 posted on 12/04/2011 4:59:09 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Right Wing Assault

Where can I buy one of the LEDs that will put out 1500+ lumens? I’m looking for a good reading light, and these CFLs are just so-so.


71 posted on 12/04/2011 5:19:43 AM PST by kevao
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To: rmlew

They will come down for sure. First ten cost us $75. Then I started googleing and found some for half that much.

They are supposed to last 50,000 hours.


72 posted on 12/04/2011 5:28:50 AM PST by Utah Binger (Southern Utah where INVITED Freepers will meet again next summer. Jim Robinson Too)
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To: Elsie
Damn pipes frozen in the coffee shack this morning. Forgot to turn the temp up on the milk house heater.

WHO do I SUE?

Certainly not Sue. Artist Mark Bangerter was here for two weeks.


73 posted on 12/04/2011 5:48:53 AM PST by Utah Binger (Southern Utah where INVITED Freepers will meet again next summer. Jim Robinson Too)
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To: Elsie

74 posted on 12/04/2011 5:56:00 AM PST by Utah Binger (Southern Utah where INVITED Freepers will meet again next summer. Jim Robinson Too)
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To: maryz
I tried the cfl’s. The only light I use all the time is one for reading, and I found, though the light bill went down a couple of dollars with the cfl, it bothered my eyes more and more. It was such a relief to go back to an incandescent — my eyes seemed 10 years younger!

I don't know if this is true or not, but my mother did not need to wear glasses until she was around 21. At 18, she became a secretary in 1956 and she attributes flourescent lights causing her to get glasses.
75 posted on 12/04/2011 9:16:19 AM PST by Nowhere Man ("People should not fear their government, their government should fear the people." - V for Vendetta)
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To: Elsie
A 60 and a 40 add up to 100.

Not with light bulbs. A 100-watt bulb runs hotter and has more light in the visible spectrum. Although a 60 and a 40 will consume 100 watts of electricity, they will produce less light that a 100-watt bulb alone. That might be useful if you need light in two locations rather than one in the center of the room, or if you don't want the room to go dark when one bulb blows out, but even two 60-watt bulbs are barely brighter than a single 100-watt bulb.

GE Basic bulbs

watts lumens lumens/watt
40 505 12.63
60 865 14.42
75 1190 15.87
100 1710 17.1

76 posted on 12/04/2011 10:59:07 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Herman Cain: possibly the escapee most dangerous to the Democrats since Frederick Douglass.)
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To: Elsie
A 60 and a 40 add up to 100.

Not with light bulbs. A 100-watt bulb runs hotter and has more light in the visible spectrum. Although a 60 and a 40 will consume 100 watts of electricity, they will produce less light that a 100-watt bulb alone. That might be useful if you need light in two locations rather than one in the center of the room, or if you don't want the room to go dark when one bulb blows out, but even two 60-watt bulbs are barely brighter than a single 100-watt bulb.

GE Basic bulbs

watts lumens lumens/watt
40 505 12.63
60 865 14.42
75 1190 15.87
100 1710 17.1

77 posted on 12/04/2011 10:59:37 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Herman Cain: possibly the escapee most dangerous to the Democrats since Frederick Douglass.)
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To: kevao

It appears that Hard Rock casino in Biloxi has LEd spotlights that shine on the side of the building!

The computer controled stage spotlights on DWTS are LED.


78 posted on 12/04/2011 7:21:46 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Utah Binger

I just turned out the critters heat lamps last weekend when it snowed for first time this season.


79 posted on 12/04/2011 7:23:33 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Utah Binger

I see t-bird and deer and contrails and moon and big digger and pickup and birds...


80 posted on 12/04/2011 7:25:43 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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