Are You Ready For $50 Dollar FEDERALLY-MANDATED Lightbulbs?

FIFTY DOLLARS for ONE light bulb.

No, I'm sorry, this is not a joke. And I suspect you've not heard of this until now. Because the DEM/MSM has been doing its best to carry the water for Obama and his Religious Leftists.

From YahooNews:

NEW YORK – Two leading makers of lighting products are showcasing LED bulbs that are bright enough to replace energy-guzzling 100-watt light bulbs set to disappear from stores in January.

Their demonstrations at the LightFair trade show in Philadelphia this week mean that brighter LED bulbs will likely go on sale next year, but after a government ban takes effect.

The new bulbs will also be expensive — about $50 each — so the development may not prevent consumers from hoarding traditional bulbs.

The technology in traditional "incandescent" bulbs is more than a century old. Such bulbs waste most of the electricity that feeds them, turning it into heat. The 100-watt bulb, in particular, produces so much heat that it's used in Hasbro's Easy-Bake Oven.

To encourage energy efficiency, Congress passed a law in 2007 mandating that bulbs producing 100 watts worth of light meet certain efficiency goals, starting in 2012. Conventional light bulbs don't meet those goals, so the law will prohibit making or importing them. The same rule will start apply to remaining bulbs 40 watts and above in 2014. Since January, California has already banned stores from restocking 100-watt incandescent bulbs.

Which is why I went to Nevada recently to create my MASSIVE stock of regular light bulbs from the Reno Home Depot, which should keep me in stock, cheaply, for years. And who takes responsibility for MY electric bills?

Why yes, that would be ME. I PAY my own electric bills.

Screw your mercury-laden CFL bulbs, federal government.

Not like I didn't write about CFLs here and here and here and here.

And screw your FIFTY-DOLLAR light bulbs. I OWN my electricity and I choose to utilize it as I wish. Because I paid for it.

Of course, naturally, the "poor" will have THEIR light bulbs SUBSIDIZED. All they have to do is proffer one mere tear.

YOU want to pay $50 for ONE light bulb?

You go right ahead. Be my trembling toady guest.

BZ

P.S.
And ask yourself: how many light bulbs are in your home? Perhaps you should multiply that number times $50. Plus: what about obscure, boutique bulbs? What about the bulb in your oven? Could that be a CFL and withstand the temperature? Perhaps some mercury lovingly-splashed, when broken, over your roast or your chicken or your casserole?

Ah yes, your loving Religious Leftists at work.