Posted on 01/13/2011 5:16:29 PM PST by Innovative
In 2007, Congress passed new bulb standards requiring at least a 25% increase in efficiency for 100-watt bulbs by 2012 and smaller-wattage bulbs by 2014, leading to the replacement of incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent (CFL) and halogen bulbs. Barton's bill, the Better Use of Light Bulbs (BULB) act, was introduced in September. He wants to nullify the standards, which he claims cost U.S. jobs and are a safety hazard.
The BULB act was not taken seriously until it became a key part of the struggle between Barton and Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), a sponsor of the standards, to run the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Upton won, but he had to agree to revisit his own law. "We have heard the grass roots loud and clear," he says. Though the bill is likely to die in session, Limbaugh wants Congress to pass it as its first act in January.
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I hope they do take up Barton's bill to reverse the idiotic regulations.
I would prefer to let the market replace incandescent bulbs with LED bulbs.
They are mercury fired lightbulbs. They should be declared hazmat if you apply other federal agency rules. Just trucking them from the factory is a crime. Disposal of them is even worse.
This will work about as well as those water saver toilets. I have one of those and they don’t save water.
I want my incadescents.
We are already cooked. Your response?
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Mercury Vapors Are Hazardous
CPSC Document #5057
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/5057.html
“CPSC recommends that consumers avoid breathing mercury vapors. Most uses of mercury that expose consumers to fumes are banned.”
What happens when a CFL bulb breaks, you get mercury vapors...
In breaking two household fever thermometers as a child I released more mercury into the house than I would have by breaking 60+ CFLs.
And I am still fine
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“We are already cooked. Your response?”
I am afraid you are right. But it can and will continue to get worse...
I’m betting enterprising tinkers could manufacture their own Edison bulbs. Yeah they’re inefficient, but they’ll outlast you.
Is "incadescent" a variety of toilet? Is it more efficient (in one way or another) than others?
Thermostats have liquid mercury, not mercury vapors, CFLs are filled with mercury vapors, also see my previous posts about the Consumer Product Safety Commission declaring mercury vapors hazardous.
If the market has a say, incandescents will be with us for a long, long time (I hope!).
fatnotlazy: “I want my incandescents.”
It amazes me that a Republican administration signed off on this crap. It only proves many Republicans are only slightly less interested in statism than the Democrats / Marxists. They tell us what kinds of shower heads, toilets, and light bulbs to use. Whatever happened to liberty? More importantly, where does this stop?
It isn’t the question of efficiency, it’s the quality of the lighting. Why shouldn’t I be able to use bulbs of whatever efficiency that I want, why should the government regulate how efficient lightbulbs, cars, toilet, etc should be, that I use?
“This will work about as well as those water saver toilets. I have one of those and they don’t save water.”
Another one of my pet peeves — why is the government in my bathroom? And you are right, they not only don’t save water, but waste water.
I used to do tin plating to a specification required by the military inspectors. Failure to do it could result in felony charges if it was not done to that specification.
Then another federal agency declared that it was illegal to do that type of tin plating. To do so could result in civil and criminal charges.
So what do you do?
We sent the military contract work to China.
Incandescant light bulbs?
Oh. You mean heat lamps.
Silly Americans.
It's like saying don't fall too much or you'll use up all the gravity.
“Can anyone explain to me how you waste water?”
The “water saving” toilets waste water — if you have a regular toilet, 5 gallons washes down a lot of stuff, down the pipes. If you just pour small amounts of water, it just trickles and doesn’t have the force to really wash things down, it has a much smaller pressure, so you ultimately have to flush many more time, ending up using more than one “old fashioned” flush.
They clear pipes with high pressure water — i.e. pressure matters.
I suppose for people who pay a water bill, having to double-flush the algore toilet qualifies as wasting water. In actuality, it’s wasting money, but I get the point.
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