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>>> They are expensive right now, but will cut your electric bill in half because they do not produce any heat at all. <<<

Fine.

I have a root cellar up here in Alaska, where the temperature can get down to -50 degrees in the winter. It needs a little extra heat to keep the cold at bay. I use one light bulb. It produces just enough excess heat to maintain a constant temperature throughout the winter of 34 degrees, give or take a degree. It is simple, elegant, requires nothing more special than a lamp or a bulb, and uses next to no electricity - which is important when you’re paying 59 cents a kilowatt hour.

Your LED lights put out almost no heat. BUT I WANT THE HEAT. In fact, if I could find a little tiny heater putting just the meager amount of heat that a light bulb puts out, maybe I’d buy it, but a light bulb and a lamp is still cheapest and best.

My point... who the hell is the Congress of the United States to tell me what bulbs I can buy? They cannot possibly legislate finely enough to predict that some guy in rural Alaska will preferentially want a bulb that produces excess heat. However, the market would be able to determine who wants what bulb for what use and allocate resources better than some attorney 4,000 miles away, and I could simply buy my bulb. Or I can go to the Walmart in Alberta next time I drive down the Alaska Highway and buy a case or two... assuming it’s not confiscated by customs.

I wish a conservative presidential candidate would ride this issue to the White House.

Otherwise, I’m with Levin. It’s a posts-Constitutional republic. God help us.

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!! ;)