Sneaky Bastards - Don’t Tread on My Light Bulbs

The 'lawmakers' and regulating bureaucrats just relentlessly and endlessly keep assaulting right to free choice. They are like bush vipers that follow their victims and strike from all sides.
There is a rider to an old bill, watch out! To make it all worse, the EPA is filled with lying zealots! m/r

http://www.centennialbulb.org/cam.htm

Don’t Tread on My Light Bulbs | National Review Online

By Robert Bryce  12-19-13

Thanks to G-men, Edison’s beautiful invention will be off the shelves as of January 1. 

The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 — one of the most pork-filled bits of federal energy legislation ever passed by Congress — continues to haunt us.

That legislation, signed into law by George W. Bush, forced more ethanol into our motor-fuel supply. And come New Year’s Day, it will effectively eliminate a type of light bulb — the standard 40- and 60-watt incandescent — that consumers have been using since the days of Thomas Edison. (TheJanuary 1 ban on 40- and 60-watt bulbs follows the phase-out of the 75- and 100-watt incandescent bulbs that took effect at the beginning of this year.)

To be clear, this is not the end of the republic. But it is yet another maddening example of governmental intervention in the energy marketplace that simply isn’t needed.

The motivation behind the ban on standard incandescent bulbs is greater efficiency. The EPA claims that the light-bulb ban will cut consumers’ electricity bills by about $6 billion by 2015. It also claims that the move will reduce pollution from coal-fired power plants and cut greenhouse-gas emissions.

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