Posted on 12/09/2011 6:07:38 PM PST by Evil Slayer
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RUSH: In three weeks and one day the 100-watt incandescent light bulb will be illegal. In three weeks and one day it will be illegal to sell a 100-watt incandescent light bulb. And who did this? The federal government. The federal government, under the auspices of a hoax, mankind global warming. You know, I've been staying in a lot of hotels lately, been doing a little traveling, and hotels are like a lot of other businesses, they just run scared of any regulatory agency. Nobody stands up to regulatory agency, and you can understand it. So you walk in and you turn on the lamp and you know that it's a compact fluorescent. You know because it's inferior light. You know because it's small and tiny. You know because it isn't going to be sufficient. The Democrat led federal government is taking us backwards. The enemy of the Democrat Party is progress. In three weeks and one day, illegal to buy an incandescent light bulb. And you know what that means, when the 100-watt incandescent light bulbs are outlawed only criminals will have them. That means me. I will be a criminal. (interruption) Well, you can have them but you can't sell them, but they're still gonna be gunning for you. At some point it's gonna be illegal to have them. But if you can't sell them -- (interruption) well, if I use one in proximity to a turtle? Yeah, then it could be jail time.
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A mushy Bush and a Rat Congress. Rush was not known for touting George W. Bush as the best thing since sliced bread, although still preferable to the alternative.
It’s weirder than that - I market commercial/industrial lighting. But our new products are waaaay ahead of the curve environmental curve - and they work.
And, they peter out in extreme cold, and most require some warm up to come to maximum brilliance. It helps if you don’t have to wait for your furnace closet bulb before you can see well in there.
I have shelves of them stocked up in our basement. Getting more every store I go to.
perfectly willing to do that, as long as I am allowed to do so based on my own observation of the competetive advantages of either over the other. The price, for example of the CFL's , is a distinct disadvantage as far as I'm concerned until and unless the bulbs are dated and guaranteed.
Your examples refer to improvements.
Perhaps you haven't noticed, as you are so caught up in laughing, but fluorescents are not an improvement over incandescents. So you see, every one of your examples is completely wrong. Perhaps you should wipe the snot from your nose, and reflect on the deeper issue of a socialist scientific fraud being perpetuated across a civilization in order to deny it functional technology and erect a regulatory apparatus designed to completely eradicate small business.
So you see, the issue is rather important, and the 100 watt bulbs are in fact a very decisive abuse point being used byt the government to impact millions of lives is an utterly useless way - except for its humiliation training.
Of course, these are subtleties far beyond your high school level of smiling insults, and brazenly false denials of intentional contempt. But hey, don't be mad, this is only meant in a spirit of pointed rebuttal.
please point out which of these items the government ordered us to replace....shower heads, toilets., yes....neither for a good reason. But your list is a perfect example of letting people decide for themselves to either purchase one item or the other. You can't buy new 8 tracks anymore because people switched to casettes and to discs so the manufacturer stopped making 8 tracks, not because the gov't ordered it, but because he wanted to stay in business.....that's called free enterprise...or even capitalism (horrors), maybe we won't all be equal!!
If you were a Buggy whip maker way back when and saw the writing on the wall.....What would you do???
“That is the ugliest light bulb. I hope I never run out of the incandescents.”
I bought one the other day that looked just like a regular bulb - I thought it was something new. When I held it up the light I could see one of the curly bulbs hiding inside. This stupid thing starts out nice and bright, but after about 30 seconds it dims down to about 3/4 of it’s starting level.
I noticed a lot of incandescents burning out faster 15 years ago. At that time I decided to replace them with CFLs. My monthly electric bills immediately dropped from $28 per month to $17 per month, and that included 2 refrigerators. I figure in 15 years I have saved at least $2,000 on electricity alone, not to mention what I saved on bulbs, especially in the past 6 years since the CFLs at Home Depot have become so cheap—less than $2 each in packages of 4.
So I figure if anyone likes throwing money away that is their business. On the other hand there are some people who really seem to have problems with the subliminal flicker and other properties of the CFLs and I think anyone who desires to buy them should be allowed to.
That sounds as if there may be an electrical problem with surges or something. Anyone know more about this than I do? Do you have access to one of those little electrical testers?
Big sellers like Home Depot and Lowes should be required to take back the burned out ones. Some municipalities have a recycling method for them.
I’m more concerned about the ones we drop and break on the floor. The rest goes in the trash.
Donate to the Democrat party and hire a lobbyist to write a 2000 page bill that mandates all horseless carriages must carry at least three buggy whips and discourage the use of the horseless carriage as an environmental hazard. Also a loan of half a billion dollars with no interest, never to be repaid for research on how to make buggy whips green. After all we need a sustainable buggy whip environment.
I don’t know where you see your CFLs. At Home Depot and other places the ones I see always indicate that a 60 watt equivalent CFL burns 13 watts, a 40 watt eq. burns 9 watts, etc. What really annoys me is that I am not seeing this information on LEDs or on halogen bulbs. I though a nice string of white LED X-Mas bulbs might be an attractive and low cost form of lighting to use in my family room, but could not find the information on the packages. I have not noticed the spiral CFLs making any noise.
Ummmm - Liberty! Limited government and market competition! Oh and liberty!
‘fluorescents are not an improvement over incandescents.”
I beg to differ. See my Comment #70. I think the thousands of dollars I have saved are a big improvement, and I have not found the light itself of CFLs to be much of a problem. They now have several tints of light, and the price is often under $2.
“Donate to the xxx party and hire a lobbyist...mandates...carry...3 buggy whips...” Gee wizz, this kind of sounds like what the oil industry did to kill the electric car, so now we are dependent on our enemies for much of our oil.
In a related development T. Boone Pickens and the Koch brothers are fighting over government involvement in natural gas propelled vehicles. Pickens has a lot of natural gas and wants government help going in that direction. Th Koch brothers had agricultural interests and are afraid the much greater use of natural gas will drive up the price of fertilizer.
See, no gov’t mandate necessary. As the price of CFLs comes down more people will switch. It would be nice to have a choice though. I can remember dad putting a drop cord and light bulb in the pump house to keep the water from freezing up during a rare cold snap. Incadesents also worked pretty good for drying out a distributor cap that had drawn moisture.
I'm thinking insert it in Fred Upton's arse.
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