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All I know is that LED'S has saved us lots of money and last way longer than incandescent. What does it matter what age I am. I just want to save money which I have with LED'S.
Great. I fully support your choice. Why do you want to deny others the choice of what light bulb to use?
Honestly, I don't care so much about businesses as much as I care about me and my family. It saves us a lot of money. Incandescents are money eaters.
It's an abuse of government power and really, you should care about that. Trying to explain, it's bigger picture than just light bulbs. But this was one of the most egregious examples that they didn't even try to disguise.
"Are you going to force someone to use a word processing capable computer rather than a typewriter just because you consider the typewriter to be obsolete?"
Even though I like my 10 year old Toshiba Tecra, I wouldn't mind at all seeing it go. However, I challenge anybody to pry my sturdy old Smith Corona-Marchant Electra 10 from my cold dead fingers!
It's an abuse of government power and really, you should care about that. Trying to explain, it's bigger picture than just light bulbs. But this was one of the most egregious examples that they didn't even try to disguise.
And what makes all of this worse is that it had bipartisan support.
This is just another in a long line of boneheaded, knee jerk reactionary measures that are supposed to benefit the environment but were never thought through.
Let's make an “environmentally-friendly” green light bulb out of MERCURY – one of the most toxic environmental poisons in the world. It will require a special hazardous cleanup procedure if broken, it will
need to be disposed of at special hazardous waste facilities if you don't want the landfills to become contaminated with mercury.
Let's use Ethanol and LITERALLY BURN FOOD AS FUEL while there are food shortages and people are starving!
Let's switch to plastic bags to save the trees and generate 4 times the solid waste that can last up 1,000 years.
Let's ban DDT based on the alarmist book, Silent Spring and watch Malaria spread needlessly.
We can watch termites eat our houses as well because DDT was the only real insecticide which worked against the evil bastids.
Well there is already a law that has decided that incandescent bulbs are obsolete, so I don't have to explain to you how they are obsolete or who gets to make that judgement because it has already been explained and decided back in 2007. Were you not paying attention back then when both parties were in favor of this?
You are owning the hell out of this thread. Well done.
Well there is already a law that has decided that incandescent bulbs are obsolete, so I don't have to explain to you how they are obsolete or who gets to make that judgement because it has already been explained and decided back in 2007. Were you not paying attention back then when both parties were in favor of this?
No, the law did not make them obsolete, the law favored one type of light bulb manufacturer at the expense of another type of manufacturer, as southbel has already explained.
If you think that this was done because incandescent bulbs are obsolete, then it is your responsibility to explain why they are so.
The fact is that being obsolete was not the reason for the law. The only entity that can judge something as obsolete is the market, just like they did with 24Kb modems.
The only reason why incandescent bulbs were banned is because politicians picked CFL manufacturers as winners for political and profit reasons.
I support this law because it limits the freedom of those who have some weird love for incandescent bulbs as if they somehow remind them of their youth or something.
Why do you want limit the freedom of non-threatening citizens?
You are owning the hell out of this thread. Well done.
Nah. That honor belongs to southbel for this post:
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Originally Posted by southbel
Don't know how old you are so not sure if you remember how this went down. GE, primarily, had created the 'newer', 'better' light bulb, the CFL. They pumped tons of money, marketing, and energy into this light bulb that cost a lot more (yes, they used to be much more expensive) and thus would garner them greater profits. However, all of that marketing didn't work. People tried them and didn't like the 10 second delay for them to turn on or the harsh florescent light they cast and not to mention the cost. So, people weren't buying them. Along comes this bill. The bill, as we know, made the manufacturing of incandescent light bulbs illegal. GE, being one of the early adopters and biggest proponent of this bill stood to make a fortune because it would, effectively, make the biggest competitor in the light bulb industry - the incandescent - a non-issue. GE would be able to corner the market and all with the help of the US government. You should care this happened. You should care that businesses can do this. It's a bad law and should be repealed.
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