Circa 1970's-80's
Liberals Lunatics:

STOP using paper bags they are bad for the environment, you are killing trees. HERE use these nifty petroleum based plastic bags instead.

Circa 2010:
Lunatic Liberals:
STOP using plastic bags they are bad for the environment, they do not degrade!!! HERE use these neat paper bags, they use renewable resources like trees...

This is the cycle of the DUMBASS liberals that we allow to run our lives by electing DUMBASS liberals to run our lives, which ironically is not liberal at all but more like controlling dictators...

The essence of the liberal mindset is that intentions are more important than reality. The intent of the new light bulbs were to "save the earth", even though the earth is no danger. The fact that the solution created something with far greater ecological impact than generating the electricity is beside the point -- it's intentions that count.

Similarly in the great AGW battle, while efforts are proposed to solve the 'problem' with government control and taxation (somehow taxes are always the solution), none of the proposed efforts would have significant affect on the outcome -- even if their theories were correct. The are just "a step in the right direction". Intentions over reality, of course.

They pride Germany on photo-voltaic electricity even though that actually results in more coal burning to keep an even flow of power than the nuclear they replaced. Once again causing greater damage to the environment but with good intentions.

And everyone knows what paves the road to hell.

I do like LED light bulbs, though.

I heard about the ban a few years before it went into effect, so I started stocking up. I am now 56, with an inventory of around 60 or so incandescent light bulbs, of varying power from 60-100 watts. At the rate I have to replace burned out bulbs (maybe 1 or 2 per year), I am set for life - just like my supply of ammo. Maybe the "peppers" weren't so paranoid after all? :-)

nice find. He did miss the fact that GE lobbied heavily for this ban-as a mature industry-they needed you to pay for those fluorescents. and we didn't make a peep

This pisses me off beyond belief. I am also royally pissed off by the fact that I can't buy a high flow toilet. Government by idiots

If you have not bought a gas can in the last few years, you will find another government ban waiting for you.

The new style government approved cans, are just about the dumbest thing I have ever seen. They take forever to fill with, are prone to break, and spill more gas than would ever be released by the fumes.

But of course, the feds know what is best for you!

BTW: Aftermarket kits are available to adapt these new cans to old style spout, but don't waste your time looking for a sensible gas can, You'll just be told "they don't make them anymore!" Couldn't help but think of Rand as I searched for one last week.

Yet another in a long history of failed attempts to legislate behavior.

LED lamps would, in a free market, eventually make incandescent lamps almost obsolete anyway. They have most of the benefits, and few drawbacks. The greatest drawback is the high relative cost, but that higher cost is actually maintained by LEDs no longer having to freely compete with the cheap incandescent technology.

Several years ago, angered at the light bulb mandates, I bought several boxes of incandescent bulbs. My thought was I'll have them and use them until I die, or maybe sell them on the black market as a retirement plan.
Now I have mostly LEDs, so I have several boxes of light bulbs and a failed plan.
"Life is what happens while you're planning." -- John Lennon

CFL's suck -- of course they do, they are mandated by the elites. LED's (created by people finding better right answers) are pretty good and save energy. Private sector once again out performs the bureaucrats.
In cost per mile over the life of the vehicles, including all cost, a Hummer is cheaper than a Prius -- that is, it conserves more resources.
Funny how liberals always say the opposite of what they mean. Their goals are REGRESSIVE. the wish to regress society back to kings, and knights and (other) war lords. We should always make the point to call them the proper thing (regressives, illiberals, anti-socialist, etc.)

years ago, the warm glow of incandescent bulbs
and the warmth of 25 ASA kodachrome slide film
made some very fine photos for me. . like the one
of the first intimate woman in my life. . the precious
incandescent will forever live in my life, and I am
hoarding a few. -- j

freedomforall, thank you.

remarkable what you will find when you read or reread what Ayn Rand wrote 50 or 60 years ago.

The whole ban is a diversion to keep everyone from looking directly at the truth. It is all an illusion. "They" learned from Hitler and he learned from those before him. Both the Republican party and the Democratic party are the same--a diversion from the truth. Fight among us as they go along with "their" plan.

I think I might be losing it. I used to think that Libs just didn't think things through. Or, they had a Bill Ayers type agenda. I even thought that the catch-phrase "Liberalism is a mental disorder" was just a convenient way of showing their stupidity. But Liberalism can now be seen as a destructive spiral down into oblivion. It is so hard for me to believe that the Libs are That crazy, and I'm beginning to think that maybe it's me who is nuts. I'll need to have my wife throw some cold water in my face.

I don't care about paper or plastic; LED, real bulbs, or the gross counterfeit bulbs. The problem is the government has no business in telling consumers what to buy. Then the market of ideas will rule.

Well, what I try to do is to get light bulbs to use
that are not made in a totalitarian state. And that
has become increasingly difficult. I did find some
made in Hungary, but was dubious about that, Hun
gary having been previously a member of the
Soviet block. But I went to a neighbor's house
and he let me use the computer to look up the
latest information on it. It seemed to be accept-
able (who knows whether I'll find out that that
was wrong?), so I went to the store and bought
a slew of those packages. So that will last me
for a while.

Equality "I" Prometheus

One should also note that there is a loophole to this rule. All you have to do is get a different grade: http://www.aamsco.com/light-bulbs/americ...

(Note that I have no financial ties, this just happened to be from a quick Google search.)