Incandescent bulbs are still legal and incandescent bulbs that meet the energy efficiency standards are currently available on the market.
There really is no basis for complaint other than posturing.
Don't Republicans have better things to worry about?
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Incandescent bulbs are still legal and incandescent bulbs that meet the energy efficiency standards are currently available on the market.
There really is no basis for complaint other than posturing.
JohnStockalypse
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The basis is they are not allowing certain bulbs that people might want to buy.
Chad Feldheimer
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You mean they aren't on vacation still?
A point of clarification: Is it your position that anything anyone might want to buy should be legal?
JohnStockalypse
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Any safe light bulb.
Gyp Rosetti
Banned
What about LED's? Aren't they the most energy efficient?
Obviously a fundamental right.
The history of industry is that they don't do anything that would cost them a single cent more until they are forced to, after being dragged kicking and screaming. In fact, the federal mandate led to a situation in which "there have been more incandescent innovations in the last three years than in the last two decades.”
The technology has been in place for over two years. Incandescents aren't going away and no one's liberty is being infringed. And it's R&D that would not have happened had the market been left to its own devices.
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/06/business/energy-environment/06bulbs.html
Traditional 100 watt bulbs might be $0.75 apiece. Basic google searching shows you can get the equivalent CF bulb for approximately $2/bulb and it will last longer and be more cost-effective in the long run. If you really want an incandescent bulb, they are available and you have the option to pay more for that as a consumer. This is hardly a great impingement on liberty.
Are you also against laws that mandate other technologies, such as automobiles, become more efficient over time?
JohnStockalypse
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But if I need a light bulb and I only got 75 cents I'm ****ed.
If you've only got $0.75, I suspect you have larger problems in life.
JohnStockalypse
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Not if I'm trying to keep the boogie man away.
Everyone knows your only option against him is a thick blanket.
With your thumb in your mouth.