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Yes so I've heard, but what does that have to do with my point that we consumers should have decided which light bulbs are obsolete?
Well it is the same reason why the consumer can no longer buy leaded gasoline. Sometimes products become obsolete and are no longer manufactured even if there are some consumers out there that can't seem to understand why.
I understand why. My point is consumers should decide which light bulbs are obsolete and you brought up leaded gasoline.
Consumers don't always get to decide when something is obsolete, that is the point of leaded fuel. The consumers didn't make that choice, the fact that it was obsolete is the reason for ending leaded fuel and incandescent light bulbs.
Just because some consumers like obsolete technology doesn't mean we should still be manufacturing it.
Consumers don't always get to decide when something is obsolete, that is the point of leaded fuel. The consumers didn't make that choice, the fact that it was obsolete is the reason for ending leaded fuel and incandescent light bulbs.
Just because some consumers like obsolete technology doesn't mean we should still be manufacturing it.
Actually the reason leased gasoline was phased out was because of obvious health implications not obsolescence. So, you're making the wrong analogy unless you can show incandescent light bulbs also had an obvious health implication.
Consumers don't always get to decide when something is obsolete, that is the point of leaded fuel. The consumers didn't make that choice, the fact that it was obsolete is the reason for ending leaded fuel and incandescent light bulbs.
you're right we don't, but I stated that its my opinion that consumers should decide which light bulb choices they make. We can no longer do that because politicians removed that choice. Leaded fuel has nothing to do with it.
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Originally Posted by urbanlife78
Just because some consumers like obsolete technology doesn't mean we should still be manufacturing it.
Just because some consumers like obsolete technology doesn't mean we should still be manufacturing it.
Who gets to decide when technology is obsolete?
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?
Should the government force me to require that every customer who does business with the company where I am employed be required to have an e-mail address, even when many of them do not, nor do they have any wish to obtain one?
Just the other day, I sent a copy of a receipt through a fax machine, at a customer's request.
So you would choose to pay more. Why. Technology advances all the time and many things become obsolete as we progress. I'm not sure what freedom has to do with this.
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