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Fun With Cap and Trade: No more than 60 watts in your Candelabra
by: Bill Dupray posted: 2009-07-01 22:41:00
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And you thought Cap and Trade was just an energy tax. Nope, there are lots of hidden goodies to ensure that you are broke and properly restrained from enjoying your freedom. Clyde went through some of the bill and found some gems, but Pundit and Pundette have a few more via And So It Goes In Shreveport.
And how will this bill affect you? It has regulations on every single aspect of your daily life. There are light bulb restrictions (no more than 60 watts in your candelabra); in fact there's a whole section that deals with lamps. If you decide to build a new home, it must meet new and specific energy requirements. If you decide to sell your existing home, a federal inspector must inspect your home, determine it's energy rating, and if your home is found to be unacceptable then you must retrofit and make changes before you will be able to sell.There's an entire section on planting trees including guidelines on "scientific based measurements outlining the species and minimum distance required between trees planted...in addition to the minimum required distance to be maintained between such trees and building foundations, air conditioning units, driveways and walkways...". Do we really need the federal government telling us where we can plant trees?
There's a section dealing with outdoor lighting in which you are given instructions about landscape lights, lights in your swimming pool, lights on artwork and other architectural lighting. The federal government is going to tell you what wattage that light can be and how many you can have. In some cases the lights must be capable of producing two different light levels (100 and 60 watt).
This is madness. Just for starters, where is the Constitutional Authority for the Federal Government to regulate distances between trees you plant, for telling you the wattage of bulbs illuminating your artwork, and for ordering you to scrap your wood stove if it does not meet some arbitrary emission regulation. It literally sounds like they want us living in the cold and dark.
If this bill is not killed in the Senate, we stand to lose freedom in countless, conspicuous ways. These people are monsters.
prohibiting bright light bulbs, but the water bottles are a felony. Please come
with us.
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Bill,
Good points - there were a lot of arguments about emission trading beofre the bill passed,
- but neither politicians, nor media commented much on all the efficiency rules thrown in as well.
The light bulbs are a good "shining" example of everything else
- and with a big section all to their own in the bill.
Americans choose to buy ordinary light bulbs around 9 times out of 10.
Banning what Americans want gives the supposed savings - no point in banning an impopular product!
All lighting devices have different advantages and give out different types of light.
That's why they exist for people to choose.
The ordinary simple light bulb responds quickly with bright broad spectrum light, is
easy to use with dimmers and other equipment, can come in small sizes, and has safely been used for over 100 years.
For some that is a reason for banning it: Why keep simple old technology?
Because if modern lights were better, people would buy more of them instead.
Consumers don't avoid products only because they are expensive - or no other expensive products would be sold.
Nor do they keep buying cheap but poor products.
There are - for example- well known batteries and washing up liquids that are expensive but sell well because they "last longer"
- as they show in their advertising.
Fluorescent light manufacturers and distributors are very happy to let governments promote their case,
and happy that they ban the lights that people are buying, so the fluorescent (and/or LED) light manufacturers can win market share
- why should they bother making better products and advertise them?
They can clean up the market and charge what they like when those cheap competing rivals keeping down prices are gone.
Is this the New America?
You can buy any car, as long as it is an Obama car?
You can buy any light bulb, as long as it is an Obama light bulb?
Put it this way:
New LED lamps are on the way.
If they are good, people will buy them - no need to ban ordinary light bulbs (little point).
If they are not good, people will not buy tham - no need to ban ordinary light bulbs (no point).
"Look at all the energy we save",
says President Obama.
Since when does America need to save on electricity?
There is no energy shortage, there are plenty of energy sources, and Middle East oil is not used for electricity generation.
Consumers pay for any power stations, just as they do for factories and shops generally.
Certainly it is good to let people know how they can save energy and money - but why force them to do it?
As explained on the website linked below, money/energy savings from a ban are not that great anyway.
"Look at all the emission savings",
says President Obama.
Do his light bulbs give out any gases?
Power stations might not either:
In Washington state practically all electricity is emission-free, around half of it is in states like New York and California.
Why should emission-free households there be denied the use of lighting they obviously want to use?
Such households will increase everywhere, since emissions will be reduced through the planned use of coal/gas processing
technology or energy substitution.
Again, emission savings are not as great as supposed anyway:
Why Light bulb bans are wrong (list of reasons with references)
http://www.ceolas.net/#li1x
About why all efficiency regulation is wrong,
and how they affect performance, construction, appearance, price and savings on buildings, disheashers, cars, light bulbs etc
http://ceolas.net/#cc2x