Posted on 12/19/2007 5:40:50 PM PST by kc8ukw
In addition to raising auto fuel efficiency standards 40 percent, an energy bill passed by Congress yesterday bans the incandescent light bulb by 2014.
President Bush signed the 822-page measure into law today after it was sent up Pennsylvania Avenue in a Toyota Prius hybrid vehicle. The House passed the bill by a 314-100 vote after approval by the Senate last week.
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The next thing they will do is ban Christmas - not just the bulbs for the tree.
Start stocking up! Get some boxes and packing peanuts and start stocking up. Ebay is calling!
Fine with me. That might cause the sheep to focus on the problem without distractions; but I doubt it.
I hate those things.
I've even seen them spit small particles of the bowl's contents as much as 5 feet across the bathroom.
I'd like to stick the head of the genius who designed it into the damn bowl.
And how about water saving shower heads, which take forever to rinse the soap out of your hair.
Going back to whale oil, are they?
Kind of like those low flow, energy saving toilets. They clean out just fine ... after two or three flushes.
Ding-dong.
Open zee door. Vee are come to inspect your bulbs, comrade!
How much energy will be saved if you have to wash the clothes twice???
GE must have paid good money for this one.
‘Bring the bulb back’ will be a great catch phrase for campaigning.
A liberal.
Twice as much, of course! ;-)
And lo and behold, the vast majority of fluorescent lights come from China. GE partnered with a PLA ‘company’ to build them there, and is shuttering multiple bulb plants in the good old USA:
GE to Ohio: Turn off your light-bulb factories
Environmentalists often tout the theory that investing in forward-looking energy-efficient technologies is a smart way for U.S. companies to create domestic jobs and carve out a competitive niche in the global economy of the future. But it doesn’t necessarily have to work out that way. On Thursday, General Electric, citing the fact that sales of incandescent bulbs are declining by about 10 percent a year, announced that it was closing seven lighting manufacturing facilities in North and South America.
Six of those plants are in Ohio. The vast majority of the compact fluorescent light bulbs that are replacing incandescents are manufactured in China. A union-led campaign launched in March argues that GE should invest in new lighting technologies in the United States, but GE claims that to manufacture CFLs in the U.S. would require adding 50 cents to the price of each bulb.
http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/10/05/cfls_and_ohio/index.html
Guiliani....Bulb police will be sent forth to enforce the ban.
Romney....Already heavily invested in Chinese florescent bulb factories.
Huckabee....Has a program to provide free florescent bulbs to illegal aliens.
Thompson....Let the states ban the bulbs if they want to
Hillary....Wants law to force you to install florescent bulbs in all your neighbor's homes.
Obama....Florescent bulbs limited to 3 watts.
Very good point.
Add to the fact that all these energy saving creations are usually infinitely more complex than the devices they replace.
The more complicated they make these devices, the more frustrating it becomes to fix them when they break--indeed, we are becoming more and more a disposable society: cheaper to buy new gadgets then to fix the old one.
This is especially true when it comes to cars, which are as far as I'm concerned, are already way too darn complicated.
Now they're talking about adding features like turning the engine off at stoplights and turning off some of the cylinders when cruising along at a steady high speed.
Egads. What even bigger mechanical monstrosities cars of the near-future will be.
Hold out the cost of a new light fixture that can take some sort of florescent bulbs without looking crappy from your income taxes (as a deduction for the cost of compliance).
The insanity has gone completely off the scale.
Will the last real American Patriot to leave turn the lights off...
So people have to buy expensive fluorescent bulbs for closets that are opened for 30 minutes a year, where an incandescent bulb will last for 50 years.
There are LED replacement bulbs for the incandescents that work perfectly well and are on the market now. My wife and daughter saw them on sale today.
You had better check your numbers - the bill passed with a BUNCH of Republican support...
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