There are a few states with bills to ban sales of incandescent light bulbs being considered. What to you think of this?
There are a couple of issues here, one being whether government should be legislating laws about what we can buy when the item is not harmful at all, but only considered 'inferior' to another similar item. Is this too much government? Will they be legislating what kind of appliances you can buy? Will we be fined for using banned items?
The second issue is whether or not energy saving fluorescent bulbs really are superior in all ways to incandescents, including full spectrum light bulbs.
Another issue is,, if it is good to legislate such things for our own good, why pick light bulbs as the top priority, while cigarette sales are not banned, nor are gas guzzling vehicles,,, and, on the other hand, more efficient energy savers, like solar and wind sources are not being rewarded.
2007-02-02
11:06:02
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mary_n_the_lamb
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