The circular fluorescent bulbs in my kitchen light fixture need to be replaced, so I picked up a set of replacement bulbs. GE. The only brand available at Wal-Mart.
GE was once a highly-respected company, but they tarnished their reputation by selling machine parts to Iran while Iran was shipping men and weapons to Iraq to kill American soldiers. In any other war, this would have been considered treason.
But I digress. Since GE was the only brand available, I had no choice but to purchase the bulbs.
They’re made in China. And they don’t work. The small one gives off a dim flicker and the larger one won’t light at all. So I’ll have to return the defective bulbs and try another set.
An aside: China can’t seem to make light bulbs that work. They export toys coated with lead-based paint. Yet the government expects me to trust a swine flu vaccine that’s manufactured in China?? I don’t think so!
When I bought the defective fluorescents, I also picked up some incandescent bulbs. You know. . . the kind Congress elected to ban? I wanted 60 watt bulbs, but there were no 60 watt bulbs on the shelf. Instead of the standard 40, 60, 75 and 100 watt bulbs I’ve purchased all my life, there were with wattages of 34, 52, 67 and 90. What’s with that??
Since I wanted the bulbs for lamps by which I intended to read, 52 watt bulbs were out of the question. That left 67 watt bulbs, which apparently are intended to replace 75 watt bulbs, thereby forcing me to reduce my electricity usage.
There are two glaring problems with this approach:
1. The government does NOT have the constitutional authority to legislate to manufacturers what kind of bulbs they must produce.
2. The government does NOT have the constitutional authority to legislate to me what kind of light bulbs I can use nor how much electricity I am permitted to use.
You may be thinking, ‘If you can get the same amount of light from a lower wattage bulb, why not do it?’ and I would totally agree, if only to lower my electric bill. However, these bulbs do NOT produce the same amount of light. The label states, in fine print, that a 67 watt bulb produces 1015 lumens, compared to 1170 lumens produced by a 75 watt bulb. That’s 155 lumens LESS. In other words, they’re dimbulbs, just like the Congressmen who legislated them.
Now to the Rule of Unintended Consequences: Because 60 watt bulbs are no longer available, I will be forced to replace my 60 watt bulbs with 67 watt bulbs — thereby INCREASING my energy usage, rather than reducing it.
If our socialist legislature and communist executive branch have their way, besides telling us what kind of light bulbs we’re allowed to buy, they’ll soon dictate to us how much energy we’re allowed to use, what kind of car we’re allowed to drive, what foods we’re allowed to eat, and what appliances we’re allowed to use. If they have their way, we’ll soon be living like our Amish brethren, who, I’m sure, make a very small “carbon footprint’.
The population of America, the greatest nation in the world, the most innovative nation in the world, the richest nation in the world, will be reduced to a standard of living on a par with Third World countries. That is, after all, the expressed intention of our president.
All this nonsense is supposedly being perpetrated in the name of the hoax known as “global warming”, but is that really the reason, or does our government have an ulterior motive, such as greater control over our lives?
Think about it.
GE was once a highly-respected company, but they tarnished their reputation by selling machine parts to Iran while Iran was shipping men and weapons to Iraq to kill American soldiers. In any other war, this would have been considered treason.
But I digress. Since GE was the only brand available, I had no choice but to purchase the bulbs.
They’re made in China. And they don’t work. The small one gives off a dim flicker and the larger one won’t light at all. So I’ll have to return the defective bulbs and try another set.
An aside: China can’t seem to make light bulbs that work. They export toys coated with lead-based paint. Yet the government expects me to trust a swine flu vaccine that’s manufactured in China?? I don’t think so!
When I bought the defective fluorescents, I also picked up some incandescent bulbs. You know. . . the kind Congress elected to ban? I wanted 60 watt bulbs, but there were no 60 watt bulbs on the shelf. Instead of the standard 40, 60, 75 and 100 watt bulbs I’ve purchased all my life, there were with wattages of 34, 52, 67 and 90. What’s with that??
Since I wanted the bulbs for lamps by which I intended to read, 52 watt bulbs were out of the question. That left 67 watt bulbs, which apparently are intended to replace 75 watt bulbs, thereby forcing me to reduce my electricity usage.
There are two glaring problems with this approach:
1. The government does NOT have the constitutional authority to legislate to manufacturers what kind of bulbs they must produce.
2. The government does NOT have the constitutional authority to legislate to me what kind of light bulbs I can use nor how much electricity I am permitted to use.
You may be thinking, ‘If you can get the same amount of light from a lower wattage bulb, why not do it?’ and I would totally agree, if only to lower my electric bill. However, these bulbs do NOT produce the same amount of light. The label states, in fine print, that a 67 watt bulb produces 1015 lumens, compared to 1170 lumens produced by a 75 watt bulb. That’s 155 lumens LESS. In other words, they’re dimbulbs, just like the Congressmen who legislated them.
Now to the Rule of Unintended Consequences: Because 60 watt bulbs are no longer available, I will be forced to replace my 60 watt bulbs with 67 watt bulbs — thereby INCREASING my energy usage, rather than reducing it.
If our socialist legislature and communist executive branch have their way, besides telling us what kind of light bulbs we’re allowed to buy, they’ll soon dictate to us how much energy we’re allowed to use, what kind of car we’re allowed to drive, what foods we’re allowed to eat, and what appliances we’re allowed to use. If they have their way, we’ll soon be living like our Amish brethren, who, I’m sure, make a very small “carbon footprint’.
The population of America, the greatest nation in the world, the most innovative nation in the world, the richest nation in the world, will be reduced to a standard of living on a par with Third World countries. That is, after all, the expressed intention of our president.
All this nonsense is supposedly being perpetrated in the name of the hoax known as “global warming”, but is that really the reason, or does our government have an ulterior motive, such as greater control over our lives?
Think about it.
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