A few brave congress persons have introduced a bill to repeal the incandescent light bulb ban. Powerline:
Representatives Joe Barton, Michael Burgess, and Marsha Blackburn have just introduced the Better Use of Light Bulbs Act (or BULB). The legislation would repeal the de facto ban on the incandescent light bulb contained in Subtitle B of Title III of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.
It’s H.R. 6144, for those who care about that sort of thing.
There is some vaguely scientific sounding noise being made in certain quarters about health hazards of compact fluorescent bulbs. For some reason that I don’t understand, most of it sees to be in the form of videos rather than articles. A number of these are assembled for your viewing pleasure at CFL Impact.
I find it offensive that the ban has no justification other than that incandescents are inefficient. That’s a matter of one’s perspective. A CFL is terribly inefficient, in fact downright ineffective, in an Easy-Bake oven. And since when has mere inefficiency been a reason for legislation to outlaw anything? If something is inefficient enough, people will stop buying it. Non-radial tires have just about disappeared, without ever being banned. For instance. Even though radials are more expensive. The better product naturally supplants the worse. Yet bias-ply tires are stillavailable, if you want them.
Now that there have been two failed attempts to repeal the 1099 madness in the health care bill, I do not have much hope for this first attempt to repeal another piece of lunacy. But hope springs eternal, I suppose. Hope for a change in direction. Yes, I’ll have a cup of tea, thanks.
