House GOP Set To Repeal Incandescent Bulb Ban...

Vote to repeal ban on incandescent bulbs

  • YES kill the ban- gimme my oldie bulbs!!

    Votes: 24 88.9%
  • NO- CFLs!! today tomorrow forever ( starting in 2012)

    Votes: 3 11.1%

  • Total voters
    27
  • Poll closed .
With all the problems we face, the GOP is focused on light bulbs. Ain't that swell.

Joe "The Free Marketer" Barton shouldn't be using free market arguments, especially after he voted yes for the auto bailout, cash for clunkers, agricultural subsidies, banning internet gambling, among other things. Yet, this goon parades around and uses the free market for incandescent light bulbs.

This is just more GOP dumbass talking points.

I don't know Barton's voting record completely but i'll take your word on that. I can only speak for myself. I don't agree with his votes on those other issues but i do agree with him on this. Government Banning light bulbs and forcing Citizens to buy a particular light bulb just isn't right. It's a ridiculous Government over-reach. Let the People decide for themselves which light bulb they want to use. This should not be a Government issue at all.

What other things "shouldn't" the government restrict your right to buy?

Kiddie porn?
LAWS Rockets?
Thermal Nuclear Devices?
Slaves?

Do tell..

Incandescent bulbs, used for 100 years are like kiddy porn because...?
Incandescent bulbs, used for 100 years are like LAWS rockets because...?
Incandescent bulbs, used for 100 years are like Thermal Nuclear Devices because...?
Incandescent bulbs, used for 100 years are like slaves because...?
 
It's all part of the coming Global Warming Gestapo. These Gestapos already exist in several Socialist Nations around the World. Imagine a day when ordinary Citizens are imprisoned for violating Global Warming Gestapo protocols? Don't laugh or think that's just silly paranoia. That day is a lot closer than most think.
 
waste of time, as usual.... it won't get pass the senate...they know it too...but yet they still spend useless time doing this kind of crap.... (not that i like those florescent bulbs or the light they give off....I just really do NOT like them)

where are the jobs bills?

this congress is turning out to be even more useless than the previous one imho and as facts are showing....

At $275,000 Per Job created,it would be wise to not offer anymore Government "Help" on Job-Creation. We just can't afford anymore of their "Help." Also,banning light bulbs in the first place was useless crap. This is the right thing to do and definitely not useless.
ok, then please tell me, in your own words, why you think this is the RIGHT thing to do? Please explain to me, so i can understand, why being the only country in the world, to be left using the incandescent light bulb, that truly does waste energy, a good thing?

the negatives that i can see with the florescent light bulb:

the light they cast is harsh and not soft enough on the stronger bulbs and they don't cast enough light on the lower watt bulbs.

and

when you break them, they have the poisonous Mercury in them and the clean up is a bitch...I broke one, right on the stove! :eek:

outside of those 2 things, on the positive... they do cut our energy use down as a nation, and are greener...

I am hoping that LED lights will be better....

That's a tall order for anyone.
You want flourescent bulbs? Go buy some. You want incandescent? Go buy some. If the CFCs are really better they will crowd out the conventional bulbs in the market place and makers wil stop producing them.

But as usual, the party that claims to be for poor people instead punishes them by reducing their choices to save money, forcing them to spend more and be even more dependent on the gov't.
 
Banning light bulbs. Only liberals could come up with such goofball idea's.

LOL....on earth day every year, I take my 2000 watt halogen flood light and point it up into the sky just out of principle.
 
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While they are at it....do you think they can bring back the Betamax VCR?
 
waste of time, as usual.... it won't get pass the senate...they know it too...but yet they still spend useless time doing this kind of crap.... (not that i like those florescent bulbs or the light they give off....I just really do NOT like them)

where are the jobs bills?

this congress is turning out to be even more useless than the previous one imho and as facts are showing....

Well just because "they know" the assholes in the Dimcorat senate will block them doesn't mean they shouldn't try to do the right thing for the American people.
 
Pretty fact free thread and fodder for the dupes Daily Caller article- Isn't this a ban on ONLY 100+ bulbs, and aren't LED bulbs a better deal anyway, and won't the country save $12 billion? Jobs, jobs, jobs....

And I want my children to be rich and pay their rightful share, and not be greedy Pub bastids...what a STUPID argument...
 
I like the swirly bulbs because they piss off Conservatives
 
I am hoping that LED lights will be better....

i was told by an Engineer from a lighting company that the Curly Q bulbs will be obsolete as well as the Incandescent as soon as the LED's are perfected for home use......he said within 5 years......so this whole argument may be moot....
 
With all the problems we face, the GOP is focused on light bulbs. Ain't that swell.

Joe "The Free Marketer" Barton shouldn't be using free market arguments, especially after he voted yes for the auto bailout, cash for clunkers, agricultural subsidies, banning internet gambling, among other things. Yet, this goon parades around and uses the free market for incandescent light bulbs.

This is just more GOP dumbass talking points.

I don't know Barton's voting record completely but i'll take your word on that. I can only speak for myself. I don't agree with his votes on those other issues but i do agree with him on this. Government Banning light bulbs and forcing Citizens to buy a particular light bulb just isn't right. It's a ridiculous Government over-reach. Let the People decide for themselves which light bulb they want to use. This should not be a Government issue at all.

What other things "shouldn't" the government restrict your right to buy?

Kiddie porn?
LAWS Rockets?
Thermal Nuclear Devices?
Slaves?

Do tell..

red herring.
 

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