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Incandecent Bulbs Made Illegal

Incandescent Light bulb ban.... do you care?

  • I care! The ban is foolish! I want my incandescent bulbs!

    Votes: 13 23.6%
  • I like the ban! Bring on new lighting technology!

    Votes: 17 30.9%
  • I dont care either way!

    Votes: 10 18.2%
  • I like incandescent bulbs and fluorescent ones. But dont make a law about them!

    Votes: 11 20.0%
  • OTHER / I dont know / Chimichanga

    Votes: 4 7.3%

  • Total voters
    55
Tyranny comes in many levels, some more harsh than others. Standards that make products illegal for sale can pretty effectively be a level of tyranny.
yeah, where is the quality control for the dope we buy on the streets?
 
No, it doesn't. You are sick individual is all. You just believe that government is best when people are controlled. To even claim for a minute as if you even care for term and its abuses is laughable. Its isn't a abuse of freedom if it doesn't stop others freedoms.
a lot of people need control....its why we have prisons..
 
yeah, where is the quality control for the dope we buy on the streets?

There doesn't need to be and there isn't going to be any sort of quality in the product as long as its illegal.
 
Hardly. There is no obligation to subsidize ignorance. If someone is ignorant they should pay for it. Why should I, why should you, why should anyone? Because its wrong they suffer? Why is it wrong they suffer from their ignorance? Its not, in fact its right.
I agree, but yu and I don't have the power to change it. My 2 siblings still live on the govt dole, will till they die...
 
I agree, but yu and I don't have the power to change it. My 2 siblings still live on the govt dole, will till they die...

That is why you vote for Ron Paul!
 
There doesn't need to be and there isn't going to be any sort of quality in the product as long as its illegal.
True, but dangerous, ineffective, but "legal" products can now be sold to the public. We need govt to prosecute the scammers and the crooks...
A few years back some guy was selling light bulbs door to door, for the veterans, so he said. He claimed that these lights were more efficient that other incandescent lights and would save on our electric bill and last longer. All true, they were 130 volt 40watt light bulbs. My wife bought a box of them. They were low wattage crap.. and DIM.
 
Why does something need a benefit to be able to be bought?

I did not state that something needs a benefit in order to be bought. I'm asking you directly what benefits you can identify. Because I can demonstrate the capability of significant damage by them in the wrong hands, if you can not name good reasons for a civilian to possess them then they should not be allowed to. There are clearly positive reasons for the military to have them, and thus only they should be allowed to possess them.
 
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I did not state that something needs a benefit in order to be bought. I'm asking you directly what benefits you can identify. Because I can demonstrate the capability of significant damage by them in the wrong hands, if you can not name good reasons for a civilian to possess them then they should not be allowed to. There are clearly positive reasons for the military to have them, and thus only they should be allowed to possess them.

If we are only speaking in a hypothetical sort of way, hand grenades would be handy for all citizens to own. It might make the government think twice before just breaking down the door to oppress you. I don't recall what the second item was, but perhaps reason given would fit for it. And, then there is the reason given in the Declaration of Independence.

Ah, the other was crack. Well, one could be a liberal and the benefit might be the high. That should seem obvious to any liberal. :roll:
 
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If we are only speaking in a hypothetical sort of way, hand grenades would be handy for all citizens to own. It might make the government think twice before just breaking down the door to oppress you. I don't recall what the second item was, but perhaps reason given would fit for it. And, then there is the reason given in the Declaration of Independence.

Ah, the other was crack. Well, one could be a liberal and the benefit might be the high. That should seem obvious to any liberal. :roll:

Because it's in your picture, LesGovt, I'm curious if you agree that a lion at the zoo needs to be caged and understand why.
 
I did not state that something needs a benefit in order to be bought. I'm asking you directly what benefits you can identify. Because I can demonstrate the capability of significant damage by them in the wrong hands, if you can not name good reasons for a civilian to possess them then they should not be allowed to. There are clearly positive reasons for the military to have them, and thus only they should be allowed to possess them.

You asked me to tell you the benefits of a freedom. I don't need to because freedoms don't need benefits.
 
You asked me to tell you the benefits of a freedom. I don't need to because freedoms don't need benefits.

You clearly abuse the **** out of the word "freedom".
 
You clearly abuse the **** out of the word "freedom".

No, I think I handle it with care. I punish you when you use to harm me, and don't when you don't. It just appears to me that you're mad at the idea because it blocks your controls.
 
No, I think I handle it with care. I punish you when you use to harm me, and don't when you don't. It just appears to me that you're mad at the idea because it blocks your controls.

I can only laugh at you when you call restricting you from buying hand grenades "harming" you.
 
I can only laugh at you when you call restricting you from buying hand grenades "harming" you.

Freedom just blocks your ideas of controls. If it doesn't benefit people you think it should be banned. You can't even figure out why really, you just think it. Your absurdly retarded in your thought processes. Your trust in the government is so complete you have decided them to the judge on these things. I have no idea where you get its a wise idea, but I'm done with you.
 
Freedom just blocks your ideas of controls. If it doesn't benefit people you think it should be banned. You can't even figure out why really, you just think it. Your absurdly retarded in your thought processes. Your trust in the government is so complete you have decided them to the judge on these things. I have no idea where you get its a wise idea, but I'm done with you.

Have you ever thought about why kids can pet the lamb at the zoo, but not the lion? Let me explain it like you would to a child:

The lamb is gentle and is unlikely to bite you. Even if the lamb bites you, it won't hurt too hard. The lion, on the other hand, is very dangerous. He could scratch you and leave a scar forever. He could even eat you.

I use this analogy because people can be animals. Go ahead, pet the lion.
 
Have you ever thought about why kids can pet the lamb at the zoo, but not the lion? Let me explain it like you would to a child:

The lamb is gentle and is unlikely to bite you. Even if the lamb bites you, it won't hurt too hard. The lion, on the other hand, is very dangerous. He could scratch you and leave a scar forever. He could even eat you.

I use this analogy because people can be animals. Go ahead, pet the lion.

Lions don't deserve to a be a cage. If we are going to be put them in a cage they are just pets and treated as such. If you have a child and don't want harm to come to them you keep them away from the lion. Your argument is a bit weak.
 
OK I've heard this claim several times, and I would like to see some verifiable evidence that this 2007 energy bill, as passed by REPUBLICAN George W. Bush, indisputably creates a net deficit of jobs.

Here's just one of many stories.



Should the Feds ban incandescent light bulbs? - The Week

CFLs are unsafe and typically produced in China: "This wicked law cannot be switched off soon enough," says Deroy Murdock in the Boston Herald. Not only are CFL bulbs aesthetically unappealing, they're also a health hazard — each bulb contains enough toxic mercury to pollute hundreds of gallons of water. And, "Washington's war on the Edison bulb" has cost hundreds of Americans their jobs, as bulb makers have shuttered incandescent plants across the country. Sure, "labor-intensive CFL production is thriving," but it's doing so in China.
"Lighten up, feds"
 
Freedom just blocks your ideas of controls. If it doesn't benefit people you think it should be banned. You can't even figure out why really, you just think it. Your absurdly retarded in your thought processes. Your trust in the government is so complete you have decided them to the judge on these things. I have no idea where you get its a wise idea, but I'm done with you.

You like to omit parts of what I said in order to try and discredit. You can can buy a useless lump of crap if you want. Based on the poo you have already flung at me, I am confident I will not be harmed. I just don't trust you with a weapon of destruction.

I am laughing even harder than before. I have never heard someone call mathematical logic and philosophy an absurdly retarded thought process :lamo
 
You like to omit parts of what I said in order to try and discredit. You can can buy a useless lump of crap if you want. Based on the poo you have already flung at me, I am confident I will not be harmed. I just don't trust you with a weapon of destruction.

I am laughing even harder than before. I have never heard someone call mathematical logic and philosophy an absurdly retarded thought process :lamo

I'm not. I'm calling anyone that uses it to restrict freedom absurdly retarded. No harm is done but because of what you gathered you decide everyone doesn't deserve whatever it might be. Your argument is retarded. You can just talk to yourself from here on out. I'm done.
 
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Here's just one of many stories.


More mercury pollution comes from the high power use of incandescent bulbs, than from the mercury used in CFLs, and that is if the CFLs are all not disposed of properly.

Compact fluorescent lamp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Compact Fluorescent Bulbs and Mercury: Reality Check - Popular Mechanics
http://www.energystar.gov/ia/partners/promotions/change_light/downloads/Fact_Sheet_Mercury.pdf

And the people losing their jobs and these countries closing plants down is due to corporate greed and the higher ups in those companies wanting to be able to pay less money for their workers. It isn't about this light bulb law. That is an excuse. Where is the outrage at GE for shipping those jobs to another country? Where is the outrage for them selling out America and American jobs in order to save a buck? No, what we see is people blaming this law, which according to those against this law, would be unnecessary in the near future anyway when the market eventually forced the companies to do the same thing they are doing now.

Do you honestly believe that repeal of the law will bring those jobs back? It is even possible that GE was going to close those plants and move their plants to another country without the law.
 
Because it's in your picture, LesGovt, I'm curious if you agree that a lion at the zoo needs to be caged and understand why.

That lion was not in a cage. I took that picture on the Serengeti. That's where lions belong. The benefit for the lion is he would have freedom.
 
I'm not. I'm calling anyone that uses it to restrict freedom absurdly retarded. No harm is done but because of what you gathered you decide everyone doesn't deserve whatever it might be. Your argument is retarded. You can just talk to yourself from here on out. I'm done.
One thing I have never learned - do not argue with a fool; and I am not the only one.
 
The law of unintended consequences.....or at least one would hope they are unintended.. Now if I was a conspiracy theorist, I might see GE buddying around with Obama and getting a ban on cheap bulbs, and then moving production to China and then see the price of "acceptable" bulbs soar.

BEIJING — In the name of fighting pollution, China has sent the price of compact fluorescent light bulbs soaring in the United States.

By closing or nationalizing dozens of the producers of rare earth metals — which are used in energy-efficient bulbs and many other green-energy products — China is temporarily shutting down most of the industry and crimping the global supply of the vital resources.

China produces nearly 95 percent of the world’s rare earth materials, and it is taking the steps to improve pollution controls in a notoriously toxic mining and processing industry. But the moves also have potential international trade implications and have started yet another round of price increases for rare earths, which are vital for green-energy products including giant wind turbines, hybrid gasoline-electric cars and compact fluorescent bulbs.

General Electric, facing complaints in the United States about rising prices for its compact fluorescent bulbs, recently noted in a statement that if the rate of inflation over the last 12 months on the rare earth element europium oxide had been applied to a $2 cup of coffee, that coffee would now cost $24.55.


China Consolidates Grip on Rare Earths - Yahoo! Finance

"But we will do all we can to keep the prices of a lightbulb below $15.00".
 
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