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You are correct about energy efficiency is the goal and the measurement of the law. The result is that the freedom to purchase the lightbulbs that many Americans want to use is stripped from them by government edict. As for auto emissions and the Clean Air Act, I believe these is a difference. The Clean Air Act certainly caused increases in prices for automobiles, but it did not end the wide-spread end of manufacturing of any automobile make or model. C.A.F.E. standards are more comparable to the lightbulb issue as both have caused the public to not have purchasing options that used to exist. And that is only going to worsen over the next few decades.
What exactly is the difference? I have shown you that incandescent bulbs will still be available, with the same amount of light given off. The only change is that they will use less power and give off less heat, both of which are benefits, not drawbacks. Any person who thinks that they should be allowed to use more power for the same result is stupid.
And, no it isn't different, unless you can prove that these standards will be the end of incandescent bulbs. The Clean Air Act forced automobile companies to change their cars so that they were more energy efficient and produced less pollution, leading to the invention/improvement of the catalytic converter. The same thing is being done with light bulbs. There is no law that anyone cannot buy or even make incandescent bulbs, but those bulbs that being made have to provide those certain lumen levels at more energy efficient power usage levels, which incandescent light bulb companies are now making.