If your lack of concern for conservation affects me and my offspring then I will seek to stop you. Its that simple. You need to do a little research of the harmful health effects of coal fired emissions. As far as your desire to continue to unnecessarily waste gasoline, my son risked his life on multiple occasions in Iraq to make it safe for big oil to exploit. 5,000 US soldiers and tens of thousands of innocent civilians lost their lives in Iraq as part of our energy program, so don't talk to me about your "freedom" to unnecessarily waste energy.
Let's go thru this one step at a time:
1. You say you like tyranny and I agree with you that you do. We have an agreement.
2. You sound a lot like Chicken Little.
3. We have used the "evil" lightbulbs for a century and not one person has died using them.
4. The war in Iraq was not over oil. That is a falsehood.
5. If you even wanted oil, we could get it right here in the United States, but tyrants don't want us to drill and refine for oil or gas.
6. I'm guessing that you support battery powered cars as opposed to using gasoline. Well, which uses more energy from the power plants, my "evil" lightbulbs or the battery powered cars? Don't you see the dichotomy of the left's position?
7. This is not about energy and health. This is about tyranny and control over people's lives. People, like you, want to dictate your tyranny on Americans. It's really no more difficult to understand than that. Now, either you are a dupe or you believe this Chicken Little scenario. So what do you do? You use our tax money to subsidize your pet industries, i.e alterative fuels, which are more expensive than fossil fuels. Next, you attempt, and in many cases succeed, in stopping production of fossil fuels. The result is that fossil fuel (aka gasoline) prices rise due to supply and demand. Next, you tyrannize the auto industry into building cars that only you want and to Hell with other Americans. As you do so, you increase the cost of automobiles by all the extra equipment that has to go on those cars. Next, you want to do away with cars powered by gasoline. So you want battery cars which uses more energy that your "evil" lightbulbs and not only has the price of cars risen, but so has the price of lightbulbs.
What is the theme here? Is it to have a clean environment? Not really. If lightbulbs are so evil, battery powered cars would be evil
x10. No, this is about destroying the American economy so that capitalism, free enterprise, and freedom die and are replaced by socialist-liberals who believe they know better than the rest of us as to how we should live our lives.
You tell us what we can drive, what lightbulb to use, what we can eat, and the list is ever-expanding. It is time to end this liberal madness.
If the mercury lightbulbs are truly better, then they should be marketed as such and Americans should have the choice to purchase them or the "evil" lightbulbs. That is how freedom works. Tyranny dictates that you must purchase the tyrants' lightbulb.
Now, what is the upshot of this tyranny. Did you notice how prices continue spiraling upward and we have not even talked about government spending? What happens to Americans? The poor become poorer. The lower middle class become poor. The middle class loses its standard of living. And Al Gore becomes a multi-millionaire while you enslave many more Americans to the nanny state teat.
So what is your relief? Oh, yes, take more people off of the income tax rolls since they are now poor and soak the rich with higher and higher taxes.
As the closing scene of Braveheart says:
FREEDOM!!