Incandescent Light Bulb Ban Started On August 1; Gas Stove Ban Coming Next?
Posted by freedomforall 8 months, 4 weeks ago to Politics
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"Biden's Department of Energy plans to mete out "the maximum civil penalty" against manufacturers that "knowingly distribute" illicit light bulbs which violate their new efficiency standards.
From Politico, "While everyone was yelling about gas stoves, the incandescent light bulb went away":
It's lights out for the incandescent bulbs that people have known, changed and singed their hands on for 140 years.
The modern descendant of Thomas Edison's most famous legacy is set to formally meet its demise in the U.S. at the end of this month, despite years of efforts by Republicans to extend its lifespan. As of Aug. 1, the Energy Department will fully enforce new efficiency regulations that the old bulbs can't meet, effectively prohibiting their retail sale.
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DOE completed the action last April, but full enforcement of the rule is set to begin Aug. 1. The transition away from the inefficient bulbs has been underway for more than a year, as the department provided flexibility for manufacturers and retailers to comply with the new standard.
That fight may be settled, but the larger fight over energy efficiency standards is still looming. Republican lawmakers in recent months have continually derided the Biden administration's efficiency actions on everything from more efficient stoves to laundry machines and dishwashers.
For example, the Energy Department is proposing new efficiency standards covering gas stoves as well as electric stoves and ovens. "
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Unconstitutional actions.
D.C. NIFO.
"Biden's Department of Energy plans to mete out "the maximum civil penalty" against manufacturers that "knowingly distribute" illicit light bulbs which violate their new efficiency standards.
From Politico, "While everyone was yelling about gas stoves, the incandescent light bulb went away":
It's lights out for the incandescent bulbs that people have known, changed and singed their hands on for 140 years.
The modern descendant of Thomas Edison's most famous legacy is set to formally meet its demise in the U.S. at the end of this month, despite years of efforts by Republicans to extend its lifespan. As of Aug. 1, the Energy Department will fully enforce new efficiency regulations that the old bulbs can't meet, effectively prohibiting their retail sale.
...
DOE completed the action last April, but full enforcement of the rule is set to begin Aug. 1. The transition away from the inefficient bulbs has been underway for more than a year, as the department provided flexibility for manufacturers and retailers to comply with the new standard.
That fight may be settled, but the larger fight over energy efficiency standards is still looming. Republican lawmakers in recent months have continually derided the Biden administration's efficiency actions on everything from more efficient stoves to laundry machines and dishwashers.
For example, the Energy Department is proposing new efficiency standards covering gas stoves as well as electric stoves and ovens. "
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Unconstitutional actions.
D.C. NIFO.
SOURCE URL: https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=63884
“Do you think they are taking you back to dark ages? They are taking you back to darker ages than any your history has known. Their goal is not the era of pre-science, but the era of pre-language. Their purpose is to deprive you of the concept on which man’s mind, his life and his culture depend: the concept of an objective reality. Identify the development of a human consciousness—and you will know the purpose of their creed. A savage is a being who has not grasped that A is A and that reality is real. "
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“Primitive, according the Oxford English dictionary, means; “Of or belonging to the first age, period or stage; pertaining to early times…” With respect to human development, primitivism is a pre-rational stage. It is a stage in which man lives in fearful awe of a universe he cannot understand. The primitive man does not grasp the laws of causality. He does not comprehend the fact that the world is governed by natural laws and that nature can be ruled by any man who discovers those laws. To a primitive, there is only a mysterious supernatural. Sunshine, darkness, rainfall, drought, the clap of thunder…- are all inexplicable, portentous, and sacrosanct to him. To this non-conceptual mentality, man is metaphysically subordinate to nature, which is never to be commanded, only meekly obeyed.
This is the state of mind to which the environmentalists us to revert.”
Next:
One planet – One government Two classes – the Elite and the mud dwellers.
“Ask not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.” John Donne
A glowing tungsten filament produces a really nice warm glow that is perfect for reading black ink on a white paper page, in a dark room at night. I find them comforting. CFL's, fluorescents, LEDs, don't have the same wavelength spectrum, and there is a psychological difference. The other bulbs are more agitating.
I'm going to have to buy another gross.
Now, where politics enters is with the 200 watt bulbs and the 3 way bulbs. (GE bulbs doncha know) The appliance bulbs satisfy the new rules currently, somehow, the same goes for those BIG globe like lights.
Dumb
Idiotic
Elitists
Anyone here have an idea of which tech would survive a strong CME from the sun?
I'm thinking both would be toast.
In Rand's Anthem the person numbered Equality 7-2521 re-invents the light bulb.
Manufacturing light bulbs was possible with 19th-century technology. Mostly you needed to be able to do glass blowing and to be able to effect a glass-to-metal seal. What are the costs, including legal penalties, for building blow-your-own lamps?
Oh, if you're worried that we'll be forced into the 19th, 18th or 17th century, you can also get non-electric lamps from Lehman's Hardware, including the incredibly bright and comforting Aladdin, now owned by Lehman's.
Me: BASED!!!
Mostly because I’m old enough to remember a world without A/C. And I also know what political group benefits the most from A/C in their workplace.
and require super-insulation in all future structures starting construction after 9/1/23.
(Hat tip to Ayn, starting September 2.;^)
Instead of giving money to rich morons to buy EV's, encourage PRIVATE development of
more energy efficient, weather resistant, and lower maintenance housing designs.
Sticks and bricks are none of those, but are perpetuated by antiquated housing codes.
CO2 is irrelevant and that has been proven repeatedly.
If you are so stupid that you believe that GW rubbish, you should be employed
digging in a mine in the Aleutians.
People in Las Vegas and parts of Los Angeles won't be happy then, either.
In addition, that light bulb can be used as a "dummy load" power sink for testing shortwave radios (If it's glowing at normal brightness you're pumping 60W RF into it) and probably most important in a SHTF situation, it can keep a chicken brooder warm. I tucked away a couple of hundred of them a dozen years ago, at 20 cents apiece. Sire beats a $15.00 LED unit when times get bad.
I have to give the Biden administration a pass, on this one.
LOVE the power that such laws gave given them and they act to get even more.
No, they don't get a pass. They get my utter disgust and they do NOT get my consent for ANYTHING they do.
D.C. is the source of tyranny and the destruction of America. NIFO.
It sounds like sensible kind of thing President Trump would have done.
, two tiered justice (Master/Slave) , where Unelected “experts” dictate Quota’s and mandates.
I have posted this form of One World Government Technocracy for years , as Q said “Sometimes you can't TELL the public the truth.
YOU MUST SHOW THEM.” “difficult truths”
and it's just a warm up for . . .DIGITAL CURRENCY and NO CASH; knowing full well that the lights will go out and your wealth will also go out the door.
Internet of things ,smart meters all to monitor and control the Quota of energy the villagers are allowed. FuQ them ,many will die on their feet before living on their knees. WWlll ,we are in it and our leader threatens them like no one ever has.
The ones that can still be produced and sold fall in two categories: 1) no led replacement exists yet and 2) Political favors . . .
I think that book was more prescient than even Wells knew.