Okay, whose *bright idea was it to ban incandecent light bulbs in California?

Question

Guess what people Dimmer switches do not work with flourecent light bulbs.

How many of you acutally have a dimmer in your home, restaurants & dance bars use them too. Even sports arenas have dimmers for their lights.

A lot of us have to work under flourecent light, all the time. We went to school under flourecent light. Now were gonna be forced to have bland oppressive flourecent lighting in our homes.

What happened to our right of choice.

How are we gonna have romantic lighting to welcome our significant others "home", -burn candles and risk burning down our homes?

Doing the nasty under flourecent light is gross.

Knocking over a candle while you're in the moment of having a good time with your lovey loved one, is a risk I'd like to avoid.

Better write that California Assemblyman and give him a piece of your mind.

Interior designers depend of Dimmer Switches to for lots of things, being forced to use flourecent lighting will affect their business!!!

Lightbulbs will hardly make a difference, when there are other contributors of pollution that make lightbulbs insignificant.
Among them there is Heavy industry and there is also the fact that Americans with their frivolent excessive wastefulness generate more garbage and pollution than anyone else in the world.

NASCAR enthusiasts alone condone, wasteful burning of petrochemicals for entertainment. How many NASCAR fans drive gas guzzlling muscle cars & trucks?

Americans and their greed for oil, are to blame for much of the environments woes.

Not just the light bulb.

Answer 1

Sorry, can't answer your question but I would like to mention that California is not alone in this effort.

Australia is also considering this measure at the present time. Therefore, it is NOT the idiots (referred to above) that wish to give social security to illegal aliens, etc, etc.

It is an issue that is being considered at this time by intelligent folk wishing to conserve energy in a practical and doable manner.

I'm sure that our technology experts will soon find some way to accommodate the "dimmer" needs and preferences that you have correctly identified. Keep the faith!

Answer 2

I agree that the ban on incandescent light bulbs is extreme. However, this is not unprecedented. Leaded gas was banned due to the effects to public health and the environment. Although incandescents do not have an effect on public health, it wastes a lot of energy compared to a compact fluorescent light bulb.
From the energy star website:
"ENERGY STAR qualified CFLs:
Use at least 2/3 less energy than standard incandescent bulbs to provide the same amount of light, and last up to 10 times longer.
Save $30 or more in energy costs over each bulb’s lifetime
Generate 70 percent less heat, so they’re safer to operate and can cut energy costs associated with home cooling.
In addition to other quality requirements, must turn on instantly, produce no sound, and fall within a warm color range or be otherwise labeled as providing cooler color tones.
Are available in different sizes and shapes to fit in almost any fixture, for indoors and outdoors"

I'm sure that if your business requires the old bulbs, I would contact the assemblyman, Lloyd Levine of Van Nuys, to write an exemption into the law for your business.
By the way also some CFL's are made to be used in dimmer outlets.

By the way this is what one light bulb can do according the the Los Angeles Times story:
"Converting a single 60-watt incandescent bulb to a comparable 13-watt compact fluorescent can save a homeowner $30 by the time the bulb burns out, says 18seconds.org, a new website backed by a coalition of government agencies, businesses, environmentalists and celebrities. The group takes its name from the 18 seconds it says it takes to change a light bulb.

And that's just the savings for the individual shopper. The payoff for society and the planet is much more dramatic. Using one compact fluorescent bulb could eliminate the need to burn 110 pounds of coal to generate electricity.

It also prevents 450 pounds of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from reaching the atmosphere and contributing to climate change, 18seconds.org says"

Answer 3

u know I have no idea, but I think that that is freakin ridiculous, that's way too much control, the next thing u know they'll be delegating the type of tissue we use...closer and closer to communism or socialism if u ask me.! Humph! look up the deal with the trilateral unification that this country in trynna do with U.S., Mexico, and Canada, no surprise to me though. the value of the Amer. dollar is all ready dropping, in Europe they don't even use or accept the american dollar, so imagine if we unify with mexico (whose peso is pretty much dead) and Canadian currency (whose isn't hot either)...Humph!

Answer 4

The same idiots that want to extend social security benefits to illegal aliens. The same idiots that want to legislate that you can't spank your own children for misbehaving. The same idiots that want to outlaw smoking on beaches and parks. The same totalitarianistic idiots that think, since their smarter than all of us, that we should just follow their lead because they know what's best for everyone.

Answer 5

It will also affect the survivability of the planet.

Frankly, I find that more important than any of your gripes about it.