uncletonoose
9th February 2011, 01:30 PM
Here's another thing we can hoard like TP if it doesn't get repealed.
A limited-government group says it's ratcheting up its grass-roots efforts this week to repeal the phaseout of incandescent light bulbs slated to begin next year.
Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, and 20 other GOP House members, including Texan Ron Paul, have already proposed a bill to repeal the phaseout. Other proposals are expected this month by Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., and Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas, according to Freedom Acton, a Web-based group founded in 2009 by political activists at the Center for Competitive Enterprise.
"The light bulb ban is an outrageous government limitation on consumer choice and intrusion into the home of every American," Myron Ebell, the group's director said in a statement. "There is overwhelming public support that spans the political spectrum for repealing the ban on incandescent light bulbs."
Slightly more Americans, 32%, say they approve of the phaseout than those, 29%, who disapprove of it, according to a phone survey of 309 U.S. adults taken in December by KRC Research for Osram Sylvania, a lighting company. Most, 60%, say they plan to switch to more efficient lighting, but 13% say they plan to stockpile 100-watt incandescents so they can keep using them.
A USA TODAY story this week reports that some consumers are starting to hoard incandescents because they're dissatisfied with the light quality of more efficient compact fluorescent lamps or CFLs. Manufacturers will no longer be able to make the 100-watt Thomas Edison bulb after Jan. 1, 2012, followed by the 75-watt version in Jan. 2013 and the the 60- and 40-watt bulbs in Jan. 2014.
Congress mandated the phaseout in a 2007 bill signed into law by President George W. Bush. Chief sponsors were Reps. Jane Harman, D-Calif., and Fred Upton, R-Mich., who now chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Upton has said his panel will hold a hearing on the phaseout.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2011/02/repeal-ban-incandescent-light-bulbs/1
A limited-government group says it's ratcheting up its grass-roots efforts this week to repeal the phaseout of incandescent light bulbs slated to begin next year.
Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, and 20 other GOP House members, including Texan Ron Paul, have already proposed a bill to repeal the phaseout. Other proposals are expected this month by Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., and Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas, according to Freedom Acton, a Web-based group founded in 2009 by political activists at the Center for Competitive Enterprise.
"The light bulb ban is an outrageous government limitation on consumer choice and intrusion into the home of every American," Myron Ebell, the group's director said in a statement. "There is overwhelming public support that spans the political spectrum for repealing the ban on incandescent light bulbs."
Slightly more Americans, 32%, say they approve of the phaseout than those, 29%, who disapprove of it, according to a phone survey of 309 U.S. adults taken in December by KRC Research for Osram Sylvania, a lighting company. Most, 60%, say they plan to switch to more efficient lighting, but 13% say they plan to stockpile 100-watt incandescents so they can keep using them.
A USA TODAY story this week reports that some consumers are starting to hoard incandescents because they're dissatisfied with the light quality of more efficient compact fluorescent lamps or CFLs. Manufacturers will no longer be able to make the 100-watt Thomas Edison bulb after Jan. 1, 2012, followed by the 75-watt version in Jan. 2013 and the the 60- and 40-watt bulbs in Jan. 2014.
Congress mandated the phaseout in a 2007 bill signed into law by President George W. Bush. Chief sponsors were Reps. Jane Harman, D-Calif., and Fred Upton, R-Mich., who now chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Upton has said his panel will hold a hearing on the phaseout.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2011/02/repeal-ban-incandescent-light-bulbs/1