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White House announces new lighting standards
State-Run Associated Press ^ | 6/29/09 | LIZ SIDOTI

Posted on 06/29/2009 4:49:42 PM PDT by Crazieman

WASHINGTON -- Aiming to keep the focus on climate change legislation, President Barack Obama put a plug in for administration efforts to make lamps and lighting equipment use less energy.

"I know light bulbs may not seem sexy, but this simple action holds enormous promise because 7 percent of all the energy consumed in America is used to light our homes and businesses," the president said, standing alongside Energy Secretary Steven Chu at the White House.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


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To: Crazieman

maybe this is what Obama wants.

21 posted on 06/29/2009 5:07:52 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Never on my watch
Do that and he effects your actions. I simply continue to do as I do, ignoring him.

I wish everyone in government could do that - simply ignore him.

Too bad our press won't.

22 posted on 06/29/2009 5:07:55 PM PDT by the anti-liberal
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To: Crazieman

Fox news just noted that Bush had mandated these same changes over a year ago.


23 posted on 06/29/2009 5:09:07 PM PDT by Jeff Gordon (Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Crazieman

Obama sounds eerily like Mao. Mao “instructed” the Chinese population on everything from childrearing to sex to making clothes to every tiny facet of life.

Zero is Mao-lite and never shuts up!


24 posted on 06/29/2009 5:10:31 PM PDT by OpusatFR (Those embryos are little humans in progress. Using them for profit is slavery.)
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To: just me

25 posted on 06/29/2009 5:11:13 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: Crazieman

I know, I know... we should all use wick and tallow.


26 posted on 06/29/2009 5:11:25 PM PDT by Peanut Gallery (The essence of freedom is the proper limitation of government.)
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To: Crazieman
Every time I go to the grocery store I pick up a pack of 60 watt incandescent light bulbs. I think the compact fluorescent bulbs suck and when they die, long before their advertised life span is up, I throw them in the trash.

I will not deal with the mess that has been inflicted on us.

27 posted on 06/29/2009 5:11:29 PM PDT by muir_redwoods ( How come when I press "1 for English" I still can't understand what's being said?)
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To: plain talk

{sarcasm on} It is a start.

Just think how wonderful it will be when all the lights are out. You will be able to see the Milky Way again. You will be able to go down to your neighbors house and rob him blind. It will be so much fun.{sarcasm off}

I drove through New Orleans, at night, after Katrina. BOY WAS IT DARK.

Even the car headlights didn’t seem to help much.

It is very weird when you are the ONLY car on the road and the only person around for miles.


28 posted on 06/29/2009 5:12:29 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
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To: TheMightyQuinn

I did better than that:

Every 1,208 miles, I have to stop the car and drain some gas out of the tank.


29 posted on 06/29/2009 5:13:09 PM PDT by Peter W. Kessler (Dirt is for racing... asphalt is for getting there.)
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To: muir_redwoods

Use incandescent in the winter. (They give off a lot of heat)

Use fluorescent, LED, etc. in the summer.

Since you only use them part of the year, they should last longer as well.


30 posted on 06/29/2009 5:14:09 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: Crazieman

Guess I better buy some more incandescents to add to my stockpile. OR will I have to worry that there will be a brownshirt coming to my door to see if I am using contraband light bulbs??


31 posted on 06/29/2009 5:14:42 PM PDT by Polyxene (America held hostage for the next 4 years by a RAT thug from Chicago - www.obamaclock.org)
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To: Crazieman
Let the truth be known.
32 posted on 06/29/2009 5:15:47 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die.)
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To: Polyxene

If there is a brownshirt brigade to inspect light bulbs, I trust you know what your patriotic duty is, correct?


33 posted on 06/29/2009 5:15:54 PM PDT by MichiganConservative (Just say "No" to socialism.)
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To: Pikachu_Dad
"It is very weird when you are the ONLY car on the road and the only person around for miles."

That is perfectly normal where I live.

34 posted on 06/29/2009 5:16:48 PM PDT by Dust in the Wind (Lord protect us from our overseers)
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To: Crazieman; Little Bill; IrishCatholic; Normandy; According2RecentPollsAirIsGood; ...
Thanx !

 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

35 posted on 06/29/2009 5:16:48 PM PDT by steelyourfaith ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money" - Lady Thatcher)
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To: Ranald S. MacKenzie

Any country that tells you what lightbulb to use is not a free country.


36 posted on 06/29/2009 5:17:14 PM PDT by alarm rider (My tagline is on vacation.)
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To: Polyxene

There is a loophole for three way bulbs


37 posted on 06/29/2009 5:17:22 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . The boy's war in Detriot has already cost more then the war in Iraq.)
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To: MichiganConservative

Lock and Load??


38 posted on 06/29/2009 5:18:47 PM PDT by Polyxene (America held hostage for the next 4 years by a RAT thug from Chicago - www.obamaclock.org)
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To: La Lydia
Apparently they are also going to require us all to install Shower Monitors, that shut your water off after a certain, short period of time.

LOL...

Hacking is not just for computers...

39 posted on 06/29/2009 5:19:29 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Crazieman
NOT sexy?


40 posted on 06/29/2009 5:19:49 PM PDT by COUNTrecount (http://obamaclock.org/)
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