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2013-07-12 Economy

House blocks enforcement of incandescent light bulb ban, again

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Posted by Fred 2013-07-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Skip mercury CFLs and goto LEDs the light's much better and they also last (unlike CFLs).

The move to CFLs is naked rent-seeking by manufacturers to bilk consumers.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-07-12 07:32|| 2013-07-12 07:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Bought a new ceiling fan / light fixture recently - used to be available with conventional screw-in bulb sockets, as long as they were shipped with CFLs to go in them, but the new ones have the plug-in sockets that only fit (different) CFLs. If they can't regulate the bulbs they'll regulate the sockets.

Posted by Glenmore 2013-07-12 07:50|| 2013-07-12 07:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Sock ets to me!

Posted by Hupusotle Lumumba6613 2013-07-12 08:53|| 2013-07-12 08:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Sounds like some of the more radical women's groups Glenmore.

Posted by CrazyFool 2013-07-12 10:01|| 2013-07-12 10:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Have one of those Glenmore. Replaced a bulb which went out, and had I not made a gold glove catch when the damnable thing didn't stay in I would have had mercury dust all over my toddler's bedroom wood floor.

Posted by swksvolFF 2013-07-12 10:37|| 2013-07-12 10:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Delayed enforcement is bad thing. More of the same, just drag it out longer. Repeal is the only rational course.

Posted by Iblis 2013-07-12 10:49|| 2013-07-12 10:49|| Front Page Top

#7 National Socialists
First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.

National Socialists

First they came for the lightbulbs.

Then they came for my coal.

Next they came for my cigarettes.

Then they came for my softdrinks.

Next they came for my amunition.

Then they came for my guns.

Next they came for my email.

Then they came for many more of my freedoms.

Posted by Omavimble Stalin3583 2013-07-12 13:57|| 2013-07-12 13:57|| Front Page Top

#8 mercury dust all over my toddler's bedroom wood floor.

I don't get why the usual suspects are not railing against the presence of mercury in CFLs. I'm all for better ways to make light than boiling electrons, but enviros have been railing against mercury in all forms since the 60s. And rightfully so. But now a broken light bulb turns our living room into a hazmat site. WTF, greenies?

Posted by SteveS 2013-07-12 15:16|| 2013-07-12 15:16|| Front Page Top

#9 SteveS - you are under the delusion that the Environmentalists give a rats arse about the environment.

That hasn't been the case for the past couple of decades or so.

Posted by CrazyFool 2013-07-12 15:19|| 2013-07-12 15:19|| Front Page Top

#10 "WTF, greenies?"

To find the answer to that, Steve, you'd need to look at whose bank account was getting filled.

Posted by Barbara 2013-07-12 15:19|| 2013-07-12 15:19|| Front Page Top

#11 ...and they can't do this with Bammercare?

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