Hooray! We can still use regular "Edison" light bulbs
Dec 16, 2011 13:13:49 #
Remember how some politicians wanted to ban the use of most regular light bulbs?
Well, the new rules have been set aside for now. I'm glad. I don't need to stock up on 100 watt bulbs any more. At least I hope the factories will still make them.
"Congressional Republicans dropped almost all of the policy restrictions they tried to attach to the bill, but won inclusion of the light bulb provision, which prevents the Obama administration from carrying through a 2007 law that would have set energy efficiency standards that effectively made the traditional light bulb obsolete."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/16/congress-overturns-incandescent-light-bulb-ban/
I do have some of the new curly light bulbs. Our power company, Duke Energy, gave out coupons for free bulbs, so I got some. We use them in our ceiling fans and other high lights, where brightness doesn't matter.
Well, the new rules have been set aside for now. I'm glad. I don't need to stock up on 100 watt bulbs any more. At least I hope the factories will still make them.
"Congressional Republicans dropped almost all of the policy restrictions they tried to attach to the bill, but won inclusion of the light bulb provision, which prevents the Obama administration from carrying through a 2007 law that would have set energy efficiency standards that effectively made the traditional light bulb obsolete."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/16/congress-overturns-incandescent-light-bulb-ban/
I do have some of the new curly light bulbs. Our power company, Duke Energy, gave out coupons for free bulbs, so I got some. We use them in our ceiling fans and other high lights, where brightness doesn't matter.
Dec 16, 2011 19:22:04 #
We have some of the new ones in our house and it drives me crazy that when you flip the switch it takes it a little longer to kick in than the traditional bulbs. Maybe it is just me that notices this, but I am glad we won't have to stock up either. (My dad has been driving us crazy around our house about stocking up on 100 watts and I don't think we even use any 100 watts anywhere in the house.)
Dec 16, 2011 19:37:06 #
unfortunately ge closed the last american factory making traditional bulbs.guess where we will have to buy them from? You guessed right Communist China.
Dec 16, 2011 22:06:55 #
Actually we started using the great value brand in my house because they are American made. I heard GE switched to having everything made in China a year or two ago. I hadn't realized it until I recieved an email about it a few months ago. There are all kinds of name brands that make things coming from China while the store brands are made in USA and cheaper. I have started checking the packaging on things before I purchase because I would love to get a bargain and support bringing back American production of goods and jobs.
Dec 16, 2011 22:22:02 #
I had gotten some of those to replace the 65 watt indoor floods in my kitchen. Of 6 bulbs, I had a 50% failure rate in the first 6 months & only one of the six was still working 12 months later.... GE sent me coupons for free bulbs & used them to get new incandescent bulbs (& yes, the bulbs that failed were made in China)
Dec 16, 2011 22:25:49 #
Those curly ones have been linked to cancer, and if you are a survivor then your chances of the cancer coming back in a lot higher with those bulbs then the normal ones..... Just an FYI.
Dec 16, 2011 22:30:01 #
JoysOfPhotography wrote:
Those curly ones have been linked to cancer, and if you are a survivor then your chances of the cancer coming back in a lot higher with those bulbs then the normal ones..... Just an FYI.
Wow I have never heard that. I will have to definitely change out the one that is in our lamp in the living room. My mom and I both spend a lot of time under it reading.
Dec 16, 2011 23:05:36 #
Dec 16, 2011 23:09:31 #
rayford2
Loc: New Bethlehem, PA
Screamin Scott wrote:
I had gotten some of those to replace the 65 watt indoor floods in my kitchen. Of 6 bulbs, I had a 50% failure rate in the first 6 months & only one of the six was still working 12 months later.... GE sent me coupons for free bulbs & used them to get new incandescent bulbs (& yes, the bulbs that failed were made in China)
You're not the only one to have issues with these so-called long-life, energy efficient flourescent corkscrews. I put a pencil to what it costs to run the incandescents and their replacements and did the same for the flourescents. After figuring in 10 years using both at current prices you'll spend far more in replacement charges for flourescents than you will for the 4-pack incandescents. The figures that I came up with shows NO monetary saving using floros and the energy savings go out the door.
The cheap corkscrews you buy now are a carrot on a stick. Once the demand for incandescents decrease the replacement cost for them will increase. Once the floros become the king watch the subsidies and coupons disappear and the price of them skyrocket.
Also, if everyone halved their electrical usage the electric companies will increase their prices to make up for this usage decrease.
Flourescent bulbs all contain a small amount of mercury for them to ionize. The package says throw them away as ordinary garbage. When everyone is brainwashed into using floros guess what new law the EPA is going to force us into? That's right folks, they'll have to be taken to an authorized disposal facility that will charge you a disposal fee...like batteries and motor oil, among other things.
Killing that portion of an Obamanized bill is one of the very few things congress has gotten right in the past 65 years. Too bad they don't do the same with that idiot health bill and the other stupidities they've enacted.
Incidentally, there are NO screw-in floros made in the USA.
Dec 17, 2011 07:54:01 #
effrant
Loc: New Hampshire
JoysOfPhotography wrote:
Those curly ones have been linked to cancer, and if you are a survivor then your chances of the cancer coming back in a lot higher with those bulbs then the normal ones..... Just an FYI.
Ahem......
Dec 17, 2011 08:35:15 #
Hard to discuss any cancer connection without a link to the medical evidence. Anybody got one?
I like the long tube fluorescent bulbs, in an office environment; but don't like the small ones in my house. I've never heard of a connection with the long tubes and cancer. Has anyone? After all these years it seems like it would be highly evident if there were any danger.
I like the long tube fluorescent bulbs, in an office environment; but don't like the small ones in my house. I've never heard of a connection with the long tubes and cancer. Has anyone? After all these years it seems like it would be highly evident if there were any danger.
Dec 17, 2011 09:49:14 #
rayford2
Loc: New Bethlehem, PA
MisterWilson wrote:
Hard to discuss any cancer connection without a link to the medical evidence. Anybody got one?
I like the long tube fluorescent bulbs, in an office environment; but don't like the small ones in my house. I've never heard of a connection with the long tubes and cancer. Has anyone? After all these years it seems like it would be highly evident if there were any danger.
I like the long tube fluorescent bulbs, in an office environment; but don't like the small ones in my house. I've never heard of a connection with the long tubes and cancer. Has anyone? After all these years it seems like it would be highly evident if there were any danger.
According to the government EVERYTHING causes cancer.
Dec 17, 2011 09:55:36 #
Im just so sick of the government telling us what is good for us all the time!
Dec 17, 2011 12:23:36 #
Wrong! Your risk is only if you break them open-there's mercury inside. Where do you hear this c**p?
Glenn
Glenn
Dec 17, 2011 12:32:14 #
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