A Democratic lawmaker has introduced a bill that would ban the sale of traditional incandescent light bulbs – which are less energy-efficient, prompting claims that they contribute to “global warming” – one day after a colleague told a press conference that legislating a ban would be a “last choice.”
As Cybercast News Service reported last week, Rep. Don Manzullo (R-Ill.) and Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) held a news conference Wednesday calling for more efficient lighting options, and Manzullo said “the last thing we want to do is force legislation down people’s throats.”
One day later, Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) introduced legislation that would set target dates for certain types of light bulbs to be prohibited for sale in the United States.
Harman calls the bill “an important first step toward making every household, business and public building in America more energy-efficient.”
The key word in that quote in “Making”. Democrats looove making people do things they aren’t already doing. Sure, the Repubs have their moments, but the Dems actually get off on it.
Do the bulbs last longer? Certainly. Do they use less electricity? You bet. Have I already started replacing my incandescent bulbs with the flourescent ones when the “incans” burn out? Yes, I have.
But if they outlaw “incans” then only outlaws will have “incans”.
And I will purposely buy up a pallet-load just to be an outlaw.
What these envirowhackos don’t say about this plan is that each CFL is a miniature AM radio transmitter, broadcasting wide-spectrum radio jamming. When hundreds of millions of them are in use, AM radio, including most long-range ham and SSB ship-to-shore radio will be impossible.
Radio noise is well-known to the hams, but they haven’t seemed to have gotten the word out to the rest of the world.