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New regulations pull the plug on the 75-watt incandescent light bulb
KTIV ^ | 1/01/13

Posted on 01/01/2013 6:24:21 AM PST by Libloather

UNDATED (NBC) - As we say goodbye to 2012, we're also saying goodbye to a fixture in America's lighting fixtures: The 75-watt incandescent light bulb.

Under federal law, 75-watt bulbs can no longer be produced or imported as of January 1st, though retailers can still clear remaining stock.

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Traditional 60 and 40 watt bulbs will be phased out in 2014.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 100watt; 60watt; 75watt; bulb; bullystate; envirowhackos; incandescent; light; lightbulb; lightbulbs; regulations
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Some good news - 30 round magazines may now be legal in DC.
1 posted on 01/01/2013 6:24:31 AM PST by Libloather
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When they get to the 40 watt we may have on issue! The easy bake oven is now gender neutral and may be in jeopardy!!!!!
People are not only stupid but enjoy being told they are. We need these idiots in charge to tell us whats right and wrong. A community organizer and a bartender handed over to court jester joe and shell shocked Mcconnel behind closed doors making descisions on how much money they will be taking from us to support the give me crowd. Im dizzy


2 posted on 01/01/2013 6:35:16 AM PST by ronnie raygun (Being Breitbart)
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To: Libloather
Green idiocy allowing the federal government to control more and more means of production. Wake up America.
3 posted on 01/01/2013 6:40:02 AM PST by Fzob (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Jefferson)
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To: Libloather

Idiotic. Thinking the Earth will cool depending on what light bulb you use.


4 posted on 01/01/2013 6:40:02 AM PST by popdonnelly
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To: Libloather

Only for effeminate journalists who support President Obama.


5 posted on 01/01/2013 6:41:55 AM PST by popdonnelly
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To: Libloather

Hmmmm ... I sense a market for screw-in adapters that will hold two 60;s or 40’s, converting a standard lamp base to a 120- or 80-watt lamp. Might require a new lamp shade, though.


6 posted on 01/01/2013 6:43:52 AM PST by NonValueAdded (If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you've likely misread the situation.)
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! ! ! !
I thought this crap got reversed.
7 posted on 01/01/2013 6:46:23 AM PST by grobdriver
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Here you cannot buy 60 watt.

Of course, I have stocks to last out my life.


8 posted on 01/01/2013 6:46:33 AM PST by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Vendetta))
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We, too, have hundreds of light bulbs in the basement!


9 posted on 01/01/2013 6:48:47 AM PST by NEMDF
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To: NonValueAdded

Just start buying up all the 60’S and 40’s you can find.i am running out of space


10 posted on 01/01/2013 6:49:53 AM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: Libloather

Come to Canada. 100’s and 75’s still available, for now. Full flush toilets too!


11 posted on 01/01/2013 6:51:27 AM PST by Former Proud Canadian (Obamanomics-We don't need your stinking tar sands oil, we'll just grow algae.)
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Next is cutting down on electrical devices, like kitchen appliances and computers.
In Norway, you can’t buy countertop icecube-makers, for example. Because they’re “wasteful”. That is likely to be a test case, more things will follow. The libs may be aiming at a license to buy computers according to need, which would neatly decapitate any wildflowering internet activity.


12 posted on 01/01/2013 6:52:43 AM PST by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Vendetta))
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I use a 75 watt over the kitchen sink and in the light in the overhead in the living room using a rheostat(spl). I have not changed the one in the living room in over ten years and the one over the kitchen sink is going on 5 years.I only run them at about 30 % continualy and they seem to last forever.


13 posted on 01/01/2013 6:56:27 AM PST by eastforker (Don't be ornery for Romney, instead Root for Newt!)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

You could make a killing with a black market light bulb operation. I know I’d buy.


14 posted on 01/01/2013 6:56:40 AM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: Libloather
My incandescent bulbs are 100% efficient. Five percent of the energy goes towards lighting the room while the other 95% goes towards heating it. It is Winter, after all.
15 posted on 01/01/2013 7:00:47 AM PST by Hoodat ("As for God, His way is perfect" - Psalm 18:30)
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To: grobdriver

“I thought this crap got reversed.”

I did too.

Our local Walmart has been selling 100w all year long. Since we prepped for this and stocked up, we’ll probably never have to buy another 100w bulb for the rest of our lives.


16 posted on 01/01/2013 7:17:19 AM PST by panaxanax
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To: Libloather

Supposedly, “rough service” incandescent bulbs are available in all ratings.


17 posted on 01/01/2013 7:23:37 AM PST by CPOSharky (zero slogan: Expect less, pay more. (apologies to Target))
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To: Libloather

..light has been going out of the world for some time now—Happy New Year...


18 posted on 01/01/2013 7:36:20 AM PST by WalterSkinner ( In Memory of My Father--WWII Vet and Patriot 1926-2007)
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To: Hardraade
In Norway, you can’t buy countertop icecube-makers, for example. Because they’re “wasteful”.

Well, they do have a point insofar as a filled ice cube tray, left outdoors, would freeze. (This is Norway we're talking about here.) But, then again, to the extent that heat there is electric, any watt of heat that doesn't come out of a lightbulb or an appliance, comes out of the radiator instead, for the net result in zero savings of energy.

19 posted on 01/01/2013 8:44:04 AM PST by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: Libloather

This shows there is nothing, absolutely nothing, too small for the Fed to stick its nose in and regulate. They can’t balance a budget within a trillion dollars of the mark, but they sure love to micromanage.


20 posted on 01/01/2013 9:03:50 AM PST by Flick Lives (We're going to be just like the old Soviet Union, but with free cell phones!)
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