Posted on 12/16/2011 5:30:52 AM PST by markomalley
Congressional negotiators struck a deal Thursday that overturns the new rules that were to have banned sales of traditional incandescent light bulbs beginning next year.
That agreement is tucked inside the massive 1,200-page spending bill that funds the government through the rest of this fiscal year, and which both houses of Congress will vote on Friday. Mr. Obama is expected to sign the bill, which heads off a looming government shutdown.
Congressional Republicans dropped almost all of the policy restrictions they tried to attach to the bill, but won inclusion of the light bulb provision, which prevents the Obama administration from carrying through a 2007 law that would have set energy efficiency standards that effectively made the traditional light bulb obsolete.
The bill doesn’t actually amend the 2007 law, but does prohibit the administration from spending any money to carry out the light bulb standards — which amounts to at least a temporary reprieve.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
I rather enjoyed it when the gals at the cash registers would say "Did you know we can't sell these after the first of the year?"
I'd just smile and say "Thank Nancy Pelosi. That's the kind of dumb sh!t that happens when you elect Democrats ".
We have a small table lamp in our foyer that I put an LED light in over 5 years ago. The lamp has only been off when the power has gone off. LED is definitely the long term solution to lighting. Hopefully the prices start coming down.
the electrician when I got my new kitchen insisted that Halogen bulbs were the way to go for the high hats.
what a load of crap....they bring the temperature of the kitchen up to about 90°F in the dead of winter(forget about the summer) and when the lights were on I couldn’t read the numbers on the electric meter as the darn thing spins too fast....
I replaced them with compact florescent spot lights...
Mexico always makes them that’s where they come from. Obozo will just have the them banned by regulation.
Thank you for that bit of cheering-up. I was beginning to feel like a real dupe (or dope?) for buying those damn bulbs. At least they will go to use - unlike most of my “forever” stamps!
I have to look at this positively. I now won’t have to buy 100-watt bulbs for the rest of my life.
Mr. Muckle should have been in Congress!
Oh no! I guess this means my investment in 200 100W light bulbs will not give me a good ROE!
“I’m waiting until the ink is on the thing before I say thanks.”
1,200 pages. Then you have to read it to find out what’s in it.
Until the U.S.P.S. goes out of business and Fedex won't accept your stamps.
eBay will be your friend, friend
LED is the way to go...
The LED bulbs are very expensive, and will be the next push by the Left. I really wonder how long those will last. I've had LED Christmas light fail also.
YEAH!
The DUMBEST f’ing idea that has come out of congress in a century.
And it only cost 50-65,000 US manufacturing jobs.
Thank You Jesus. Finally, a glint of sanity.
“Who knows when G.E. stopped making them?”
The last US GE light bulb factory in Winchester, Virginia shut down about a year ago.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/07/AR2010090706933.html
200 American jobs lost. No doubt if stores start carrying the bulbs again they will be imported from Mexico or China. Thanks Congress.
I just bought a boat trailer it was a year old...of the 15-20 or so little leds that make up each unit, at least 4-6 lights are out on each.
I do have under-counter light bulbs that are led and they have worked now for 2+ years.
Those 100 watt bulbs would look great as string of Christmas lights on the outside of a house. ;-)
If they are still illegal to sell, then where are you going to buy them? No retailer is going to sell them even if the law is not enforced and no manufacturer is going to make them if they are technically illegal.
This provision does NOTHING!
Piss on these wimps in Congress. REPEAL the law!!
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