Trump administration rolls back
Obama-era lightbulb rules
The Hill [DC],
by
Rebecca Beitsch
Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter,
9/4/2019 5:07:05 PM
The regulation eliminates efficiency standards for about half the bulbs on the market. It leaves in place rules for standard pear-shaped bulbs, while removing such requirements for recessed lighting, chandeliers and other shapes of bulbs.
When first proposed, the rule was supported by lightbulb manufacturers, but consumer groups estimate continuing to use less-efficient bulbs will cost the average household more than $100 a year and create more pollution as utilities produce energy that otherwise would not be needed.
“The Energy Department flat out got it wrong today. Instead of moving us forward, this rule will keep more energy-wasting bulbs on store shelves,” Jason Hartke, president of the Alliance to Save Energy,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Plex 9/4/2019 5:09:53 PM (No. 171414)
Darn! They just devalued my stock of 60 and 100 watt incandescent bulbs.. There are places where LEDs do not work.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
chance_232 9/4/2019 5:13:22 PM (No. 171416)
Good.......
Anyone ever see fluorescent light bulbs in a chandelier?
LED and florescent lighting does not have the same aesthetics as halogen or incandescent lamps. I have all LED lighting in my house, but refuse to use LED Christmas lights for the tree or house. The colors are wrong and dont sparkle like incandescent. Same for led lights in crystal chandeliers.
8 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
HPmatt 9/4/2019 5:17:05 PM (No. 171421)
The $0.85 100watt bulbs in the 'energy friendly' version cost $5 now (good job Jeff Imelt at GE lightbulbs), instead of being made in Winchester VA, they are now made somewhere in China - transportation costs not factored into the analysis, nor clean US mfg versus dirty water & air pollution from China factories. Good job Trump - let the market decide. Also in winter the light bulbs give off 'free heat' versus running the natural gas furnace. Since summer is brighter outside longer, we don't need the lights as much. With kilowatt costs in Texas now running $0.08, and natural gas $2.25 mcf, let me decide was is best light bulb for our mid-century home.
Now if they just scrapped upcoming Daylight Savings, the world would be even better.
21 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 9/4/2019 5:20:55 PM (No. 171425)
I have a lifetime supply in a big closet, bought for 59 cents each, back before the crazies took over.
19 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/4/2019 5:36:42 PM (No. 171438)
But not on the “pear-shaped” bulb. Ordinary lightbulbs. Save those hoarded bulbs. It isn’t over yet.
15 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
qr4j 9/4/2019 6:08:57 PM (No. 171472)
I like "white" (the color, not the race -- don't want anyone thinking I wear sheets and a hood!) light. I realize not everyone does. Being in a room with "amber" light that casts shadows drives me nuts. So . . . those pigtail fluorescent bulbs give me a headache. The traditional incandescent bulbs and the newer LEDs are fine by me.
That said . . . make alternatives attractive. Stop forcing everyone to be like . . . Obama or AOC or any other Libtard flavor of the month. I am certainly not going to force my "white" light on anyone else! I can afford the lights I like. But some people -- say, old folks and single moms -- may be on a much tighter budget. Don't force them to spend unnecessarily. They just need lights that work.
7 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
saguni 9/4/2019 6:19:26 PM (No. 171488)
I liked the light bulbs that didn't cause an environmental hazard by breaking.
18 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
snakeoil 9/4/2019 6:35:41 PM (No. 171519)
Yet another reason to prefer President Trump to the left wing dictators who want to shove their bulbs down our throats. I have purchased a number of those curly que bulbs and they are worse than the old ones.
7 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 9/4/2019 7:04:57 PM (No. 171545)
I have lost no love for either Obama or Algore, but I always call these new light bulbs, CFLs, Al Gore bulbs. I got a large charge out of stockpiling boxes of incandescent bulbs. Ha ha, still have a few. Redid kitchen with fluorescent, so everybody can be happy for a while.
4 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/4/2019 7:39:29 PM (No. 171569)
Up yours, Alliance to Save Energy I'm tired of buying ten-dollar special bulbs that die within a year. It costs much more than a hundred bucks a year to replace those Obama bulbs.
9 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
iraengneer 9/4/2019 8:28:17 PM (No. 171594)
I hate to harp on this yet again, but ....
Someone PLEASE point out to this poor fool the specific grant of power in our Constitution that empowers the Federal government to have any authority over this matter, any say whatsoever. Try as I might, it has escaped me. So, this whole thing is in violation of that Constitution.. Illegal in other words. Can someone tell Upton?
10 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 9/4/2019 8:29:00 PM (No. 171596)
Oh, seriously, I wish my parents had lived to see this day! Yippee!!
3 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
southcarolina 9/4/2019 8:40:25 PM (No. 171600)
Wonderful! Now let's have the post card to file income tax!
4 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
LadyVet 9/4/2019 8:53:21 PM (No. 171609)
Now can we get a shower nozzle that works? Not everyone lives in CA.
2 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 9/4/2019 9:09:37 PM (No. 171615)
Liberals are truly psychotic. The free market has voted in favor of LED bulbs of all sorts. The improvements made to the LED over 3 years is incredible and worthwhile for consumers. There is one problem with the reliability of the LED lighting for the home, and that is the power supply necessary to convert the power from AC to DC. The power supply ends up being the weak link in the chain and the first thing to fail. There will never be a more efficient means of producing light than an electric arc, but a hot tungsten filament is pretty good too.
Years ago airports around the country began changing their runway and taxi lights over to "energy efficient" and "reliable" LED lamps. All seemed OK until an aircraft on approach in inclement weather couldn't see the heat signatures from any of the lights using the cockpit Infrared Detection "FLIR" system. Airports now have to change those LED lamps out for ones that also produce a heat signature (like a filament! Doh!).
6 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 9/4/2019 9:38:57 PM (No. 171636)
If the Left ever succeeds in implementing climate change, we won't have any light bulbs.
4 people like this.
We should be free to buy any light bulb we want. To me, the new ones smell when fading and had several break off at the base.
The government should have better things to do.
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