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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: AngelesCrestHighway

He ain’t smokin’ nothin’.

The man is stone-cold sober, awake and making careful, accurate appraisal of the situation around him.


41 posted on 12/16/2011 8:56:09 AM PST by NVDave
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To: Kenton

How much, and how much you want for it?


42 posted on 12/16/2011 8:56:35 AM PST by ExGeeEye (It will take a revolution to reinstate the constitution. (HT FtP))
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To: EternalVigilance

I must know dozens of people who would happily start small businesses out of their homes but don’t want to run afoul of a dozen different regulatory agencies and IRS.

I looked into “legally” starting a small engine repair business. It would cost me more than I would make and if I were successful and hired a few employees I’d just run into another wall of regulation.


43 posted on 12/16/2011 8:57:21 AM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: CedarDave

Figures. I just stocked up.


44 posted on 12/16/2011 9:00:53 AM PST by null and void (Day 1060 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: DJ Frisat

I suspect GE initiated the ban.


45 posted on 12/16/2011 9:02:32 AM PST by Cold Heart
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To: NVDave
Fred Upton, R-MI, was the sponsor of the legislation that banned 100W incandescent light bulbs from sale in the US.

The poster child for why "Any republican is better than any democrat" is a bull puckey mantra spouted by morons who don't think for themselves.
46 posted on 12/16/2011 9:02:47 AM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: Liberty1970
Now if they would also allow us to buy toilets that work properly and don’t need to be cleaned daily because they hold virtually no water in them. That’s another favorite example of government micromanagement of our lives.

Thank you, Sen Al Gore.

47 posted on 12/16/2011 9:03:45 AM PST by null and void (Day 1060 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: CedarDave
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.

The mechanisms are still in place. They might not enforce it on January 1, but it's coming. Once again the only victories The Stupid Party wins against The Evil Party are short term and meaningless.

48 posted on 12/16/2011 9:04:16 AM PST by Pan_Yan
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I wonder how many light bulb manufacturers went out of business in anticipation of the ban?

All of them. From a September 2010 Washington Post article:

"WINCHESTER, VA. - The last major GE factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs in the United States is closing this month, marking a small, sad exit for a product and company that can trace their roots to Thomas Alva Edison's innovations in the 1870s.

The remaining 200 workers at the plant here will lose their jobs.

<snip>

49 posted on 12/16/2011 9:05:44 AM PST by FoxInSocks (B. Hussein Obama: Central Planning Czar)
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To: DJ Frisat

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

The last GE bulbs I bought were made in Romania or some other Eastern European Country. Immelt is scum!


50 posted on 12/16/2011 9:06:21 AM PST by vette6387 (Enough Already!)
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To: clintonh8r

This is a win/win for the enviro-nazis and the Republican enablers. The nazis get the light bulb banned, and the Republicans get to say they did something about it. Frankly, there is an F word I would normally use in this situation, to address to them all. Anyone seriously supporting Obama, or the Republicans pushed through the political system, that clean the leavings on the Marxists derrieres, deserves what is coming. Did they defund the Obama care yet? Did they even make a cut to spending yet?


51 posted on 12/16/2011 9:08:19 AM PST by runninglips (Republicans = 99 lb weaklings of politics. ProgressiveRepublicansInConservativeCostume)
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To: CedarDave

What about vitamins? Are they not going to be banned after the 1st?


52 posted on 12/16/2011 9:08:20 AM PST by US_MilitaryRules (Unnngh! To many PDS people!)
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To: CedarDave
both sides of the aisle bowed to widespread public pressure

As well they should. Too many times they forget We the People are their bosses.

53 posted on 12/16/2011 9:09:56 AM PST by bgill (The Obama administration is staging a coup. Wake up, America, before it's too late.)
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To: CedarDave
Just curious - should we buy those closed plants, and start marketing a 99 watt bulb?

I don't want the mercury bulbs in my house.

The democrats try to ban mercury in coal fired generating plants, but mandate mercury in light bulbs.

And a single volcano puts more mercury into the environment than all other sources combined. Go figure.

54 posted on 12/16/2011 9:10:33 AM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: cripplecreek

Hell, just start doing it. Damned the regulations. Around my area, if we want to do something, we just do it. Do it on a cash only basis if you can.


55 posted on 12/16/2011 9:11:07 AM PST by Jukeman
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To: FoxInSocks; Locomotive Breath
I'm sure China has plenty of incandescent light bulb manufacturing capacity to fill our needs.

Perhaps that was the plan all along?

56 posted on 12/16/2011 9:12:04 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (FOREIGN AID: A transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries)
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To: Jukeman

Oh I do lots of “favors” and have “favors” done for me in return.


57 posted on 12/16/2011 9:13:21 AM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: Paladin2
Was the 55 mph speed limit suspended?

There are many highways and smaller roads that have gone back to 70. Of course, now the problem is it's more likely you'll get caught in a speed trap not knowing a section is 55 when you've been going 70 for the past 30 miles.

58 posted on 12/16/2011 9:13:49 AM PST by bgill (The Obama administration is staging a coup. Wake up, America, before it's too late.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I wonder how many light bulb manufacturers went out of business in anticipation of the ban?

How many won't continue or re-start manufacturing because they aren't funding enforcement? Those jobs are gone...

59 posted on 12/16/2011 9:15:44 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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HC list ping


60 posted on 12/16/2011 9:16:35 AM PST by raccoonradio
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