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It's the principle RW, look at the big picture.
If government passed a law saying you had to be 50 years old to buy a Snickers bar it wouldn't really affect me, but it would hurt the company/local stores/shipping companies/etc.
Putting these restrictions on products hurts businesses even if it only affects the consumer in an often times negligible way.
Sometimes in life, ya gotta say
"Its no big deal" and suck it up
Conservation works....give it a shot
When one has to flush a low flow john 3 times in order to get the same result from 1 flush what is being conserved?
When one has to run CFLs at 100% out put because they don't work on a dimmer tell me how much is actually being saved?
And you assume ( as usual) that people won't conserve in order to save money unless the government threatens them?
My use of water is much more efficient than most people's even though I have a toilet that uses more per flush. I compost all my organic household waste and even use rain barrels to collect water for my landscaped plants.
I have skylights and Solar tube lights in my house and do not even turn on a light until well after dark. My electric bill is already low so there is no reason I should have to endure the shitty headache inducing light of a CFL if I don't want to.
I want to control what I buy and I do a fine job of economizing and conserving on my own. I don't need the fucking government to tell me what to buy under threat of force.
You need to adjust your toilet. That three flush nonsense went out 15 years ago. New toilets handle your flushing needs just fine
Dim that incandescent all you want. You still aren't going to get that 75 watt bulb down to 9 watts