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Rejoice: Incandescent Light Bulb Ban Suspended
Townhall.com ^ | December 16, 2011 | Kate Hicks

Posted on 12/16/2011 8:29:47 AM PST by CedarDave

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To: dennisw
"I stocked up on GE Reveal full spectrum bulbs but did not go overboard."

I do my damnedest to find any brand other than GE.

21 posted on 12/16/2011 8:40:50 AM PST by DJ Frisat
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To: CedarDave

As good as this news is, the last manufacturing facility of incandescent light bulbs in the U.S. (a GE plant in Winchester, VA) was closed this past year in anticipation of this ban going into effect. About 150 manufacturing jobs went away.


22 posted on 12/16/2011 8:41:28 AM PST by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: DJ Frisat

That’s right. This is no victory. If it were, the RATs never would have let it into the bill. I’m glad I stocked up...big time...enough for family and friends if they want them.


23 posted on 12/16/2011 8:41:28 AM PST by clintonh8r (Living well is no longer the best revenge. Revenge is now the best revenge.)
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To: EternalVigilance
What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

-James Madison
24 posted on 12/16/2011 8:41:38 AM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: CedarDave
My wife has been hoarding incandescent bulbs for the better part of a year now. Oh well, maybe we can sell them to the same chump who I hope will eventually buy all those Y2K freeze-dried foods we got 11 years ago in preparation for the collapse of civilization on the millenium.

I'd kind of hoped to make a killing off those in preparation for the End of the Universe in December 2012, but nobody's buying. Must be one of those "can't eat MREs after the world ends anyway, think I'll buy booze instead" kind of things.

25 posted on 12/16/2011 8:41:47 AM PST by Kenton
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To: Stegall Tx
Of course, they couldn’t be bothered to do this until after the last American manufacturer shut down their production line.

Exactly. Too little, too late (by design).

But since they didn't do a damn thing about the coal plant shut downs, or the Gulf drilling ban, or the XL pipeline suspension there will be no way to power these bulbs.

They all suck! They ALL MUST GO!

26 posted on 12/16/2011 8:42:29 AM PST by Drill Thrawl (The patient is too far gone to save.)
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To: CedarDave
What do you mean, they "suspended" it?

Are they still climing the nonexistent authority to ban or restrict this product, and just CHOOSING not to do so (yet)?

27 posted on 12/16/2011 8:44:10 AM PST by Jim Noble (To live peacefully with credit-based consumption and fiat money, men would have to be angels.)
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To: CedarDave
What do you mean, they "suspended" it?

Are they still climing the nonexistent authority to ban or restrict this product, and just CHOOSING not to do so (yet)?

28 posted on 12/16/2011 8:44:19 AM PST by Jim Noble (To live peacefully with credit-based consumption and fiat money, men would have to be angels.)
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To: cripplecreek

Perfect quote. Thanks.


29 posted on 12/16/2011 8:47:24 AM PST by EternalVigilance (With God Obama can't hurt us. Without God, George Washington couldn't save us.)
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To: Drill Thrawl
They all suck! They ALL MUST GO!

Good luck with that. The Tea party is in full retreat and the GOP intends to capitalize on it.
30 posted on 12/16/2011 8:48:40 AM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: CedarDave

Except of course GE has moved off shore and closed it’s incandescent factory in the US (with the exception of light bulbs that meet the EPA standards set by the 2007 law). You cannot find a 100W incandescent save for the multi wattage version ( which I use proudly). This is one of those that looks pretty but is nothing more than sound and fury signifying nothing.


31 posted on 12/16/2011 8:49:11 AM PST by Nifster
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To: cripplecreek

I’d like to amend your very apt question:

“How did THE REPUBLICAN SOURCE OF THIS FOOLISHNESS Fred Upton vote?”


32 posted on 12/16/2011 8:49:23 AM PST by NVDave
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To: CedarDave
Whoops! Found an earlier FR thread on the same topic:

Congress overturns incandescent light bulb ban

33 posted on 12/16/2011 8:49:37 AM PST by CedarDave
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To: cripplecreek

“The Tea party is in full retreat”....???

What you smokin?


34 posted on 12/16/2011 8:51:16 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: CedarDave

Not to look a Gift Horse in the mouth, but a PERMANENT cancellation of this silly regulation would have been far more reassuring.


35 posted on 12/16/2011 8:51:39 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: CedarDave

yay. The Democrats win the lottery, and the Republicans got the “moral victory” of getting the spare change the Democrats took from us given back. meh.

At almost the same time, the Republicans gave away both the 4th Amendment and Posse Comitatus. So at least we can have incandescent light bulbs in our homes as soldiers break through our doors and keep us in detention without arrest, indictment or trial. At least for what, another year?

I bet they use mercury bulbs in the detention centers, anyway.

Face it, that no matter the intentions of W. Bush, almost all the Patriot Act has been used for is to oppress honest American citizens, not fight terrorists. At this rate, living under Sharia Law will look freer than living in secular America.

And the Republicans are showing no signs of stopping anything the Democrats want to do, because the leadership AGREES with everything the Democrats are doing.


36 posted on 12/16/2011 8:52:39 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: CedarDave

This is irrelevant. The US factories that used to manufacture them have been shut down for years. Only 2nd and 3rd tier overseas manufacturers actually manufacture incandescent bulbs anymore, and quality and reliability have plummeted.


37 posted on 12/16/2011 8:52:49 AM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: CedarDave

Republicans didn’t win anything here.

Republicans were the source of this stupidity. As CrippleCreek points out for those in the know, Fred Upton, R-MI, was the sponsor of the legislation that banned 100W incandescent light bulbs from sale in the US.

Upton, moron that he is, attempted to reverse the ban this year, when it became abundantly clear that voters were furious about this meddling nonsense. He failed.

So now we’re left with the results of a law that people hold in contempt.

This is why the Republicans should be run out of DC at bayonet point... directly following the Democrats.


38 posted on 12/16/2011 8:53:23 AM PST by NVDave
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To: billorites

BUT, I bet you got a huge discount !


39 posted on 12/16/2011 8:54:01 AM PST by Renegade
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To: Paladin2

Keystone XL was approved in the house, still has to be debated in the senate and will be opposed by Obama. He is choosing environmentalists over unions in a gamble that he has the union vote no matter what, but greens would abandon him if he approves the project (which he will do anyway after the election).


40 posted on 12/16/2011 8:55:02 AM PST by Baynative (The penalty for not participating in politics is you will be governed by your inferiors.)
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