Congress bans incandescent bulbs

WorldNetDaily ^ | December 19, 2007` | WorldNetDaily

[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.

[gracesdad]

I do have one of the newer toilets, about $100.

[Hardastarboard]

And just what will be used for incubators and brooders??

Her Heinous has already spoken on this. She can't be responsible for every under-capitalized small business man.

[Calpernia]

Has she spoken on fish tanks?

[YoungHickey]

This is where it's heading. If you haven't read it... get on it. It's only a 100 pages.

[YoungHickey]

Thomas Edison is spinning at 10,000 rpm in his grave.

And in the school books children will learn how Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb but how the Party deemed them inefficient and made them better.

I really hate this crap.

[longtermmemmory]

MAIL ORDER LIGHTBULBS FROM OVERSEAS!!!!!!

[longtermmemmory]

This is the refrigerant freon fiasco all over again.

only this time we have the internet.

I wonder how the artsy fartsy crowd is going to deal with their candelabra lights.

[longtermmemmory]

mail order.

[Afronaut]

Everyone should take two of these ugly bulbs to their Congress critters office and drop them on the lobby floor. Leave and call the local newspaper and let them know that there is a hazardous chemical spill at the Reps. office.

[weaponeer]

I question the constitutionality of that clause, outlawing incandescent light bulbs. That stretches the Commerce Clause past its breaking point IMHO.

They've outlawed certain guns, knives, drugs, DDT, Cuban Cigars, tiolets, showerheads, CFCs, and zillions of other things. Do light bulbs have some Constitutional protection I am unaware of?

[rb22982]

That link does nothing to state that professional services are needed. Your dishonesty with this is disheartening with that of a FREEPER. That link means I’d have to spend maybe $3 for some rubber gloves and a glass container (50 cents)

[rb22982]

LEDs are less than 5 watts usually. They are far more efficent than CFLs.

[traviskicks]

Libertarian ping! To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here.

[murphE]

This is another article to go under the heading of “I can’t understand why anyone would support Ron Paul./sarcam”

[traviskicks]

yea, socialism and fascism, whatever you want to call it, is alive and well, even in the freests country on earth. I’d like someone who will get rid of it.

[bamahead]

Expect a tax break or subsidy for the poor to follow shortly... After all, the fluorescent replacement bulbs only cost about 5 times the amount of their incandescent cousins.

I’m sure achievers will be the ones getting the bill...

[woollyone]

...can you just imagine a Boston tea party type revolt regarding these bulbs?

I mean if the public began shattering these at the entranceway to public locations at night...say the library on Monday, the public works buildings and Al Gore toilet manufacturing shops on Tuesdays, the fire departments and Toyota dealerships on Wednesdays, City hall on Thursday and Sundays, public schools on Friday and Saturday? The cleanup of the hazardous materials would shut down the government for crying out loud!

I mean I’m not suggesting anyone should go do that in protest or anything...but could you just imagine the horror!?!

Why government would come to a standstill!
The trains would stop running on time!
Toyota Priuses wouldn’t get sold at dealerships!
Low-flush toilet sales would be int he crapper!

Oh the Huge Manatee of it all!

But I digress.
Anyway...
Who is John Galt?

[rb22982]

LOL

[maine-iac7]

One of most frightening things, to me, about this is that the blatantly false rationale for this, besides it being totally against our rights - and the sheeple, including a lot here, just accept it as something they'll have to deal with, instead of rising up en masse and saying "This encroachment on our Rights stops here!"

the mandated use of a toxic, designated "hazard waste' when broken or disposed of - and all the energy it will take to so dispose of; the negligible savings in energy as compared to just about any other product/appliance we use, etc.

For example: I lived in California for 10 years (about 9 1/2 years to long)and the only wash I ever saw on the line was mine. Indeed, in many 'managed communities' across the country, hanging out 'unsightly' wash is forbidden. (At least, back in Maine, the first spring day above freezing will see washes blowing in the fresh air. Just the electricity it takes to dry one load of wash would run a light bulb for months.) Then there's the mega-houses of today that have more light bulbs in the kitchen alone than I have in my whole house. How about cutting down on the NUMBER of bulbs in your house. (I see folk saying their electric bill has gone down by $30-50 in a month. That sounds like a heckava lot of bulbs are being used! For ex: calculation on lighting for a 6 room house = $4.52 month per:

http://www.cpi.coop/home_energy/billestimator.php

Now a hot tub = $45.03. Hoe many of the high mucky-mucks will be keeping their hot tubs?) I think the very most gov't should be able to do is to 'recommend' certain ways to conserve - and there are SO many other ways to conserve energy use - but those ways would NOT put any money or power into anyone else's hands other than the individual.

Hey, Comrades, just mail everyone this link to the usage chart and assume we the little people have the capacity to chart our own savings,,,

[maine-iac7]

I wonder how the artsy fartsy crowd is going to deal with their candelabra lights.

and how many will turn off their hot tubs that take tens of time more energy - Oh, I forgot. They'll buy C-Credits,,,

Me bad