California to Ban Light Bulbs
A California lawmaker wants to make his state the first to ban incandescent lightbulbs as part of California’s groundbreaking initiatives to reduce energy use and greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
The “How Many Legislators Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb Act” would ban incandescent lightbulbs by 2012 in favor of energy-saving compact fluorescent lightbulbs.
“Incandescent lightbulbs were first developed almost 125 years ago, and since that time they have undergone no major modifications,” California Assemblyman Lloyd Levine said on Tuesday.
“Meanwhile, they remain incredibly inefficient, converting only about 5 percent of the energy they receive into light.”
The story says this politician may introduce a law. Be assured, he will. He’s already introduced a law, that passed that forces grocery stores to recycle plastic bags.
So here’s another example of GW hysteria being used to limit our rights. I’ve been saying it for years, Cigarettes are just the beginning. They are slowly trying to make them illegal by removing people’s ability to smoke just about every where. The excuse is second hand smoke, which no credible study shows it had any effect on someone’s health. Next, they are going after junk food claiming the obesity epidemic. Watch more and more hysteria there and the limiting of your choices.
GW will be used to make a lot of things illegal. And they always start out with some mild argument like this one claiming fluorescents are better. Then they wil just start shving laws down your throat.
I have florescent bulbs in my house, but I also have the other kind. Fluorescents last longer but they give off inferior light.
Personally, I am really sick of government stooges telling me what I can and cannot do. These people are going too far. No, strike that, they have gone too far years ago and it’s getting much worse. And it’s all from the position that they are saving us from something, which is generally a lie. And I’ll throw in airport security. Most of that is complete nonsense.
Not only do they give off inferior light, they dump RF noise into your electrical system and the cheaper ones even broadcast it to the point it can interfere with computers and radios.
I had to put in a dedicated and isolated electrical circuit in my house to keep that crap from riding the wires into my stereo system.
Wait until the enviros start finding a houseful of cheap fluorescents causes their wireless system to crash and ruins their NPR reception, as well as giving them migraine headaches and making their copy of National Geographic look like it was printed in someone’s basement. Suddenly it’ll be “Let’s make businesses change, but not us!”
And of course there is the patent foolishness of making any chage at all based on “reducing greenhouse gases.” Since the IPCC themselves admit that even in the case of complete cessation of all CO2 emissions by the Kyoto countries, their models predict the temperature will continue to rise regardless for at least 50 years, and complete adherence to Kyoto would have resulted in a predicted reduction in the rate of rise of less than their margin of error over 100 years...WHAT’S THE FREAKIN’ POINT?!?
Environmentalism and “Nanny State"-ism are the new religions.
Muslim: “But why do I have to wash my feet before praying? What difference does it make?”
Imam: “Because you’ll go to hell if you don’t.”
Kid: “Why do I have to do my homework under this crappy light? What difference does it make?”
Enviro: “Because you’ll go to hell if you don’t.”Posted by on 01/31 at 01:22 PMIt’s scum like this that will either hold history back, or turn it back to the 19th Century. They must be stopped.
*scoff* They’re banning lightbulbs in California!? Tom Edison must be spinning in his grave . . .
Posted by John Cassidy on 01/31 at 05:07 PM
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