Bright idea? Biden to ban traditional
incandescent lightbulbs by 2023 in favor
of LED alternatives that are $3 more expensive
- after restarting green program halted
by Trump
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Natasha Anderson
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
4/27/2022 9:24:17 AM
President Joe Biden is banning traditional incandescent lightbulbs in a push to be more energy efficient, but critics claim the switch to LED alternatives will prove costly for poorer Americans.
The Department of Energy (DOE) adopted two new rules Tuesday that strengthen energy efficiency standards for lightbulbs and will effectively phase out the sale of traditional bulbs by next year.
However, consumer analysts allege that not only are LED bulbs more expensive, costing nearly $4 each as opposed to $1 for an incandescent bulb, but are often not stocked in stores in lower-income communities. Around 30 percent of the two billion bulbs sold in the US every year are incandescent.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
sanspeur 4/27/2022 9:33:57 AM (No. 1139562)
and once again no heed to the dangers when disposing these lil enviro hazards ..like putting electric cars onto a decrepit energy network .This will not end well ..but hey we can wear the worthless face burka masks as we dump the broken glass
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
PatriotGal2257 4/27/2022 9:34:32 AM (No. 1139564)
Weren’t they already banned or restricted somehow back in 2009? I have a whole closet full of incandescents that I bought back then for just that purpose. Dim Bulb Ioey is already late to the parade.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
PatriotGal2257 4/27/2022 9:35:25 AM (No. 1139565)
*that’s Dim Bulb JOEY*
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
skacmar 4/27/2022 9:49:48 AM (No. 1139580)
Do Democrats wake up each morning thinking, "what aspect of people's lives can I start to mico-manage today"! Lighbulbs? Really? Why the obsession with controlling things that will have little to no effect on anyone's day to day lives except to cost them more money? This is just another misguided attempt to control the actions of the people through social engineering. if people really want LED bulbs they will buy them.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Axeman 4/27/2022 10:16:30 AM (No. 1139596)
Who uses incandescent bulbs anyway? I have boxes of them but once I put in an LED bulb or replace a whole fixture I never touch it again. Now those stupid, insane, curly fluorescent mercury firebombs should be permanently banned, for good.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
GustoGrabber 4/27/2022 10:22:44 AM (No. 1139603)
Thank you GE, thank you Rockefellers,
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 4/27/2022 10:23:09 AM (No. 1139604)
Gosh nothing better than mandating products manufactured in CHINA!!!!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
RedWhiteBlue 4/27/2022 10:25:44 AM (No. 1139607)
I LOVE incandescent bulbs!!! The light they produce are much better than the even so-called improved LED ones. They tend to flicker and it irritates my eyesight. Especially those curly ugly curly ones. Let JoeBidet use them in all his houses.. I plan on using my incandescent bulbs and I'm not afraid to use them!. LOL
AMERICA DOESN'T HAVE A PRESIDENT!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Roscoelewis 4/27/2022 10:25:50 AM (No. 1139608)
#7 +5
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 4/27/2022 10:29:27 AM (No. 1139613)
This proves Obama is running the show....Zero did this during his reign of terror. We know. We bought light bulbs on the black market in CA.
8 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 4/27/2022 10:31:30 AM (No. 1139614)
Where does this evil demented stooge get the right to ban anything?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
mc squared 4/27/2022 10:35:51 AM (No. 1139618)
People who called my closetful of 60, 75, and 100 watt bulbs a folly aren't laughing now. Ban common items and the price skyrockets. Let's Go Brandon!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Ribicon 4/27/2022 10:37:38 AM (No. 1139619)
#10, it was none other than Green Dubya Bush working with Fred Upham (R-MI) who banned incandescent bulbs because GE wasn't making enough money and China wanted more things to manufacture. Obamaphones were also introduced under Dubya, another fun fact, because his great friend Carlos Slim, wealthiest man in Mexico and owner of Tracfone at the time, stood to make a fortune on the program.
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I like the LED bulbs. They are much brighter than incandescents, and that gets more important as my eyes age along with the rest of me. I especially like them in lamps that limit you to 60 watt bulbs. 60 watts is fine for just basic light, but too dim for reading.
That said, the govt has no authority to ban incandescents and dictate what bulbs we should use. Just like those stupid cfl's that dubya et al wanted us to use. Those things were expensive and dangerous, prone to causing fires. I stocked up on incandesants and have enough to last me for years.
I will use LED bulbs when I choose to use them, not when some demented half-wit fraudulent pResident tells me to.
Let's go Brandon!!!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/27/2022 10:41:11 AM (No. 1139626)
Notice that every issue that Biden sticks his nose into somehow adversely affects low income Americans in the long run. It’s odd that while doing that Biden believes that low income Americans are a major portion of the leftist, progressive, and socialist Democrat voter base that ignorantly keeps leftist corrupt Democrats like him in office.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
smokincol 4/27/2022 10:44:53 AM (No. 1139629)
another hosingyou obama redux - it didn't work with hosingyou and won't work with diapers - if this is all this clown has to deal with in the present day, he is really the most compromised and corrupted humanoid to sit in the WH - words are not representative of the baseness of diapers character and competence to lead our nation
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Marzon 4/27/2022 10:47:19 AM (No. 1139636)
Article claims LED bulbs last "50 times longer than incandescent bulbs". That has not been my experience at all. And it is next to impossible to find replacements for wattages above 60. I use LEDs where I can but I will be stocking up on 100 watt incandescents. So much for Freedom of Choice....
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 4/27/2022 11:02:38 AM (No. 1139648)
We have a lifetime supply of incandescent bulbs in various wattages. I suppose specialty bulbs for chandeliers, breakfronts and so on are going to be phased out too, but not before we stockpile. Government is not going to tell me what kind of light bulbs to use.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
TLCary 4/27/2022 11:14:23 AM (No. 1139656)
Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, only changed in form, (1st Law of Thermodynamics). My point: incandescent bulbs are 100% efficient at producing heat and light from electricity, and are most often used in America at night when the ambient temperate is below 72 degrees (when additional heat is required for comfort). Oh, peasants in "tiny houses" are supposed to shiver in the cold while thinking happy thoughts about saving the planet, just like the Socialists in their Mansions told them to.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Right Time 4/27/2022 11:21:17 AM (No. 1139663)
Somebody tell this stupid POS that there are specialty bulbs for specific appliances and uses that are ONLY AVAILABLE as incandescent. Refrigerator light bulbs? Clothes dryer and oven light bulbs? Candelabra bulbs? Christmas lights? Night light bulbs? Specialty candle flame bulbs? Colored (red, blue) light bulbs?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DVC 4/27/2022 11:37:32 AM (No. 1139678)
Leave us alone. Let us make our own choices you damned, evil, totalitarian, criminal thugs.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
hershey 4/27/2022 11:51:06 AM (No. 1139700)
Good thing I stocked up on them before the last go around with this greenie crapola....
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
MMC 4/27/2022 12:00:42 PM (No. 1139716)
Follow money- Ukraine makes 50% of neon needed in those LED lights-
Between chip shortages- which also need neon to work- and layers of government EO-
Better buy food and bulbs while still available-
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
DVC 4/27/2022 12:10:16 PM (No. 1139729)
LEDs, all made in China. Joe is doing what his ChiCom bosses tell him to do.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
jimboscott 4/27/2022 12:25:04 PM (No. 1139747)
Those 'ugly curly LED bulbs' do not exist. They are the equivalent of a turbocharged, fuel-injected mule.
Compact fluorescent bulbs are old tech and are horrible in every sense of the word. They produce terrible light quality with huge negative spikes in certain wavelengths (as do 95% of fluorescent bulbs), they take time to warm up, contain mercury and they're just plain ugly.
LED lights are wonderful. I am a photographer and shoot a lot of interiors. The light quality of a good LED bulb is very nice. There is some flicker but not as much as other bulbs. But most importantly, this article misleads on the economic impact of these bulbs. Follow the money...
A 100 watt incandescent bulb will cost about 96 dollars to leave on for a full year at .11/KwH. It will also likely need to be replaced at least once in that year.
Replace it with a bulb that costs 3 dollars more and you will save about 87 dollars if allowed to remain on all year long. Plus, in the summer months they produce a small fraction of the heat as the inefficiency incandescent lighting is due to the heat the filament produces. An LED bulb produces the same light output at roughly 10% of the energy of a typical incandescent.
Not saying that legislation is the answer, but math is math and the 50 or so bulbs in my house are ALL LED's.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
DVC 4/27/2022 12:27:37 PM (No. 1139750)
I will not buy things made in China. Stop with the "Required to buy Chinese goods" diktats.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
DVC 4/27/2022 12:31:52 PM (No. 1139755)
Baloney, #23. There is NO "neon" in an LED, Ukrainian or otherwise, and 99% of LEDs are made in China. An LED is a solid state chip.
If you're going to make up silly conspiracy stories, get your tech right, at least.
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I hate being told what light bulbs to use. I hate being told what bags to use at the grocery store. I hate goobermint-regulated dishwashers that do not clean dishes. I hate goobermint-regulated dishwasher soap that does not clean dishes. It goes on and on.....
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
stablemoney 4/27/2022 1:28:39 PM (No. 1139807)
I will buy enough incandescent light bulbs to last until Biden is gone, and Trump reverses this.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Birddog 4/27/2022 1:29:52 PM (No. 1139808)
What country will be producing all of these bulbs?
If it is NOT the USA, he needs to have one installed in his backside to illuminate his outlook.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
udanja99 4/27/2022 3:24:59 PM (No. 1139909)
Back when 0bama was about to do this, we bought enough incandescent bulbs to last us the rest of our lives. #8 is right.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
joew9 4/27/2022 3:36:57 PM (No. 1139913)
This article is seriously out of date.
You can find LED 60W bulbs soft white at Home Depot or Lowes for less than $2. Often approaching $1. And their life span is about 10 times longer than an incandescent bulb.
Also, for those rare instances where I need an incandescent bulb I have a devil of a time finding one to buy.
And the best deals I find are usually more expensive than the LED bulbs.
So there is no need for this law at all. Consumers are already making the choices. Manufacturers are already supplying the products. This is just a BS law to make the uninformed enviro activist think the Biden admin did something for them. It accomplishes nothing accept to make a campaign press release.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
downnout 4/27/2022 4:21:41 PM (No. 1139948)
Not in my house! I hate those LEDs.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
chance_232 4/27/2022 8:52:52 PM (No. 1140162)
Let the MARKET decide!
I switched to LED lighting in my home after they came out with the "warm" led lights. Sure, they are more expensive, but I haven't had to replace but one led light bulb in 6 years.
Christmas lights on the other hand................. I despise the led Christmas lights. The colors are wrong. They aren't nearly as bright and they don't have the "sparkle" that the incandescent do. I'm a traditionalist and prefer the C9 lamps on the house. I have 4 strings of 25 lights that I bought for 10-15$ per string. The best LED equivalent are the FlexFillament or OptiCore LED's. A string of 25 FlexFillament lights will set you back $74.00. 5-7 times the cost. And they are not as bright.
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I wish I had kept the article I recently read about the different kinds of light that LEDs and incandescent bulbs give off. Basically, apparently it seems to make a difference to your body. If you use all LEDs you need to have an additional light source (like more Sunshine) than incandescents. Fire also gives off the same kind of light as incandescents. Has anyone seen a study on this? Will we be creating another medical problem?
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I like incandescent bulbs but CANNOT FIND THEM anymore in my Cincinnati, Ohio, area... for several years now. If anyone knows of a source, please post--
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
KTWO 4/28/2022 3:11:01 PM (No. 1140960)
An incandescent might still save a few cents for lighting areas seldom used. e.g. some basements, attics, etc. But as the article notes, few stores still sell them anyway.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Faithfully 4/28/2022 9:34:12 PM (No. 1141238)
Had them here for a short time. They are poisonous if broken. Look into it.
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