Posted on 11/05/2019 1:58:43 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
I bought three or four cases of 100W incandescents after they regulated ‘em to </= 60W.
Just about every bulb in our house is LED, except for two floodlights I need a ladder to reach.
Maybe the 100W bulbs will be valuable collectors items someday.
That said, we still find incandescent lighting the best to use for reading, although LEDs are getting better. I figure we have enough 60w and 75w incandescent bulbs to last us the rest of our lives for that purpose.
I was doing an inventory of my bulbs last month. I still have over 75 of 100 watt, and 60 of 75 watt, and 25 of 40 watt, so they can bite me!
Well, if we aren’t gonna have electricity anyway...
Read my mind, just move to Caliburnia, no problemo.
Incandescent bulbs are the only type that ACTUALLY WORK in my unheated detached garage in January.
Fortunately I have about 2 lifetime supplies squirreled away in my attic.
I am lit mostly with LED bulbs. My church relamped with LEDs and saved $80K on the electric bill first year. Did not need any government-applied force after seeing that.
this is total poppycock
florescent bulbs were mostly crap, which is why people did not want them, this is why the legislation was created in the first place. (I wont get into the mercury contamination potential that was totally overlooked by many.)
There are decent Led bulbs for reasonable prices now, and for most applications they are pretty good. Because they are good and prominently placed in your local home store that is what most people will buy when their incandescent ones burn out.
Since the extra power used by incandescent bulbs is turned into heat many people would save on heating costs for example, but was this included in the calculation, if not that it has already been invalidated, and it is propaganda not science.
I have a plasma tv, It takes 5-600 watts, I dont use it much but it helps to heat my living room in the winter.
I use incandescent lights to read by, but I use led most everywhere else.
I really like the (expensive) Soraa led bulbs and I may even ditch my few incandescent reading bulbs, but I should have freedom of choice.
Liberals prefer toxic chemicals used in fluorescent and LED bulbs instead.
I agree wholeheartedly. I use LEDs also for the same reason but the choice is mine.
I order incandescent bulbs from overseas since I can’t find them in the stores anymore, at least, not the ones I want.
I went to mostly LED, but I have a free standing living room 3-way lamp that I like. I haven’t seen any 3-way leds yet. (That doesn’t mean they don’t exist, I just haven’t seen them.)
LEDs are a good deal for many (not all) applications. CFLs were never a great idea and forcing them on us before the LEDs were ready for primetime was unfortunate.
Why can’t lefties let people vote with their wallets, as they are moving to LEDs on their own, just as CRTs were abandoned when the flat screens became affordable?
Once a Second Amendment right is established the government can not go back and infringe on it.
Two. Way. Street.
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I have LED bulbs in all my high outdoor fixtures. Saves energy and especially climbing on ladders so often.
I also replaced my kitchen lighting with LED as it is brighter than the incandescent. My home was built in 1931, so I needed to get better light when I was cooking and baking.
I still have a supply of the older incandescent bulbs because I hated the curlycue fluorescent bulbs. One by one all my bulbs will soon be LED.
When used inside an area that is already needing to be heated then Incandescent bulbs are 100% efficient.
By fiat it was birthed, so shall it die.
If they can’t make it mandatory, the want to ban it.
I just put incandescent lights in the bathroom mirrors. Just for the winter. They help warm up the bathroom. The rest of the house we went to led. Will put the leds back in the bathroom in the spring.
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So the government is spending taxpayer money to “validate” its right to tell them how to live their lives. Somebody ought to introduce a bill docking their pay.
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