Why make and sell cheap incandescents for a buck when you can sell mercury-poisoned fluorescent for $4.50?
I would not be surprised if GE was BEHIND this in the first place. Everyone was making the cheap bulbs. Very few (like GE) can make the new ones.
It's kind of like Freon (CFC’s)
You make the single best coolant in the world, and the patent is about to expire, so everyone can start making it. This would cost you BILLIONS in profits... so you spend a few millions on ‘green’ environment wacko causes to get your own product banned- and oh look! we make a substitute.
Never mind that the substitute is much more caustic, far more damaging to the ‘environment’, and far less efficient (remember when you used to be able to make ice cubes in your car's air conditioning? - not any more)
Yep and both fomented by liberal, unscientific lies.
They were definitely behind it. I also vaguely remember Jeff Immelt promising that GE would have incandescent bulbs that meet the new efficiency standard by the time the law took effect. I guess he forgot about that part...