Incandescent Light Bulb Ban Starts On August 1; Gas Stove Ban Coming Next - Upgoat

Incandescent Light Bulb Ban Starts On August 1; Gas Stove Ban Coming Next
submitted by dosvydanya_freedomz to Technocracy 9 monthsAug 2, 2023 14:46:44 ago (+20/-2) (www.informationliberation.com)
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=63884

It's lights out for the incandescent bulbs that people have known, changed and singed their hands on for 140 years.

The modern descendant of Thomas Edison's most famous legacy is set to formally meet its demise in the U.S. at the end of this month, despite years of efforts by Republicans to extend its lifespan. As of Aug. 1, the Energy Department will fully enforce new efficiency regulations that the old bulbs can't meet, effectively prohibiting their retail sale.

[...] The endgame for old light bulbs came quietly — by early this year, lawmakers had mostly moved on to squabbling over gas stoves and other newer targets of the Energy Department's efficiency efforts.

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[ - ] Idiocratic 4 points 9 monthsAug 2, 2023 17:21:02 ago (+4/-0)

When warm safe lightbulbs are outlawed only outlaws will have warm safe lightbulbs.

LED bulbs are damaging to your retinas and affects your psychology in a negative manner.

This is the throwing down of the gauntlet on humanity. They hate us so much they are willing to make the night into a painful disruptive eternal hell.... you can't even look up and see stars because A)skyglow from light pollution B)glare from LED sources in every direction hitting you in the face and C)obsenely overlit makes your pupils constrict, ruining your nightvision.

Fuck this planet.

[ + ] deleted

[ - ] deleted 0 points 9 monthsAug 2, 2023 19:59:03 ago (+1/-1)

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[ + ] Prairie

[ - ] Prairie 1 point 9 monthsAug 3, 2023 00:01:40 ago (+1/-0)

A fun fact is that a good number of LED bulbs have less flicker than incandescent.

[ + ] Clubberlang

[ - ] Clubberlang 0 points 9 monthsAug 2, 2023 21:22:01 ago (+0/-0)

I've been out in Sedona Arizona and there's no light pollution out there.

[ - ] uvulectomy 3 points 9 monthsAug 2, 2023 18:02:39 ago (+3/-0)

I can't use an LED bulb in my oven. Or do we not get to have oven lights anymore either.

[ + ] Centaurus

[ - ] Centaurus 2 points 9 monthsAug 2, 2023 18:19:17 ago (+2/-0)

No ovens, either.

[ + ] Clubberlang

[ - ] Clubberlang 1 point 9 monthsAug 2, 2023 21:20:23 ago (+1/-0)

I like bbq better anyway.

[ + ] Prairie

[ - ] Prairie 0 points 9 monthsAug 3, 2023 00:00:52 ago (+0/-0)

If they still make them, there will be multi-bulb fixtures to take a bunch of appliance bulbs. Which I think are less efficient. Suck that Department of Energy.

[ - ] Trope 3 points 9 monthsAug 2, 2023 16:38:16 ago (+3/-0)

Pretty sure the bulk of us have LED bulbs and CFL in the fixtures that haven't been replaced yet. Incandescent seems to risen in popularity for the aesthetic if the glowing filament.

Im a fan of the old orange halogen bulbs that lit the roadways at night.

[ + ] observation1

[ - ] observation1 3 points 9 monthsAug 2, 2023 17:09:53 ago (+3/-0)

They make fake led glowing filaments now that appear clear edison style but are not. Looking closely it is a small array of orange leds.

[ - ] Anus_Expander 1 point 9 monthsAug 2, 2023 18:27:28 ago (+1/-0)

I just went on Amazon, plenty of incandescent bulbs for sale

[ - ] Niggly_Puff 1 point 9 monthsAug 2, 2023 17:21:21 ago (+1/-0)

Plastic straws, light bulbs.. what's next?

[ + ] Centaurus

[ - ] Centaurus 7 points 9 monthsAug 2, 2023 18:22:18 ago (+7/-0)

White people.

[ - ] xmasskull 1 point 9 monthsAug 2, 2023 15:29:18 ago (+1/-0)

T.A.Edison is rolling in his grave.

[ + ] Centaurus

[ - ] Centaurus 4 points 9 monthsAug 2, 2023 18:20:42 ago (+4/-0)

He should have bought pre-rolled.

[ + ] Clubberlang

[ - ] Clubberlang 1 point 9 monthsAug 2, 2023 21:22:40 ago (+1/-0)

👍

[ + ] The_Reunto

[ - ] The_Reunto 0 points 9 monthsAug 2, 2023 19:24:55 ago (+0/-0)

Edison was a patent troll, I'm sure he would have approved of this maneuver

[ - ] Prairie 0 points 9 monthsAug 2, 2023 23:59:58 ago (+0/-0)

only for former President Donald Trump — who once proclaimed energy-efficient bulbs made him "look orange" — to halt the move.

Best line from the article.

[ - ] RobertJHarsh 0 points 9 monthsAug 2, 2023 19:10:19 ago (+0/-0)

Biden's Department of Energy plans to mete out "the maximum civil penalty" against manufacturers that "knowingly distribute" illicit light bulbs which violate their new efficiency standards.

Because the illegal light bulb trade is a real problem. Move over drugs and human traffiking. Light bulbs are the real shit.

[ + ] Clubberlang

[ - ] Clubberlang 0 points 9 monthsAug 2, 2023 21:23:24 ago (+0/-0)

Now ask him when we expect a cure for cancer.

[ + ] RobertJHarsh

[ - ] RobertJHarsh 0 points 9 monthsAug 2, 2023 22:31:48 ago (+0/-0)

Probably right after I become the Pablo Escobar of the incandescent light bulb trade. If those fucks had a cure for cancer, they wouldn't it give it to the rank and file slobs like us.

[ + ] Prairie

[ - ] Prairie 0 points 9 monthsAug 3, 2023 00:03:02 ago (+0/-0)

Shit I had to check that it wasn't April 1 reading that line. "manufacturers that "knowingly distribute" illicit" drugs? No, light bulbs!

[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 0 points 9 monthsAug 2, 2023 19:03:02 ago (+0/-0)

They’re not going to ban gas stoves and all of my lights are LED by choice because they’re better.

[ + ] Idiocratic

[ - ] Idiocratic 0 points 9 monthsAug 2, 2023 19:35:59 ago (+0/-0)*

... they're better

That's what the jews have been pushing. The ONLY way they are 'better' is in electrical efficiency. They are bad for your eyes medically, they are ugly, it takes more energy and pollution to manufacture them, they fuck up circadian rythms of humans and animals, plantlife suffers from constant exposure, they are hazardous to safety at night, the list goes on.

But sure, hold on to that ONE good attribute and scream it to the heavens.

[ + ] Prairie

[ - ] Prairie 0 points 9 monthsAug 3, 2023 00:03:43 ago (+0/-0)

They are bad for your eyes medically,

Even warm white with an even spectrum that don't flicker?

[ + ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey

[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 0 points 9 monthsAug 3, 2023 23:17:40 ago (+0/-0)

I’m in a building all day with LED and it doesn’t bother me one bit. The kelvin rating is way higher and they don’t burn down or fizzle out like a flourecent and those used to give me headaches before we changed over. I have LED in my house as well. I don’t care about cost to run them and they don’t burn out all the time like incandescent.

[ - ] bosunmoon 0 points 9 monthsAug 2, 2023 16:38:19 ago (+0/-0)

I thought those were banned years ago.

[ - ] MaryXmas 0 points 9 monthsAug 2, 2023 16:13:31 ago (+0/-0)

I got 100 of in the closet. I feel bad for you led bros.

[ + ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey

[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 1 point 9 monthsAug 2, 2023 19:05:18 ago (+1/-0)

Yeah, because you can’t smoke meth out of a plastic lightbulb.

[ + ] MaryXmas

[ - ] MaryXmas 1 point 9 monthsAug 2, 2023 19:31:17 ago (+1/-0)

Correct.

[ + ] Clubberlang

[ - ] Clubberlang 1 point 9 monthsAug 2, 2023 21:25:58 ago (+1/-0)