Bachmann: Americans should have the freedom to choose … light bulbs

Yeah, where are the jobs?????

OMG!!! NOW WHEN THE LANDSLIDE COMES IN 2012 FOR ALL THESE REPUBLICANS THEY WILL SAY ACORN…..DEAD PEOPLE VOTED BLAH BLAH BLAH!! REJECT REPLACE REPEAL ALL REPUBLICANS FOR AMERICA!!

“The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy,” said Bachmann…

But they do have the right to tell you who you can marry, tell women what they can and can’t do with their bodies…..

These sick f***ers are out of control and as un-American as it comes.

“…but if the market share for CLFs were to increase from its current 30 percent to 100 percent, power companies could potentially see a yearly loss of $26 billion.”

That’s $26 billion in savings to the consumer, chuckles.

She’s done all she can for dim bulbs; it was just time to move on.

Lights are on but nobody’s home. This republican crap is getting stoopid.

Thank you Bachmman finally some common sense in Washington, Washington has constitutional authority to force American’s to buy any certain product, Including health Ins, and While you are at it would repeal the Unconstitutional seat belt law? As a matter of fact repeal about 80% of the unconstitutional regulations ( like my toilet size ) that have intruded on our freedom and liberty.

When you remember the TOXIC DUMP SITES AWARDS are held in MINNIE SODA this all starts to make sense in an insane sort of way. Turn BACH the clock MAN when you remember that she has to leave a LIGHT BULB BURNING under the hood of her car so it doesn’t freeze preventing it from starting! Except that Canada wouldn’t accept them It might be time to discuss paying them to take Minnie Soda as a strip mine site and make it an official Super Fund project in perpetuity.

I am more than willing to change a few bulbs to grant a reprieve to another mountain in the Appalachian region. I would say some should let go of their tunnel vision.

Michele needs one piece of legislation in her name. It will be her signature achievement to launch her presidential campaign. “I am the giver of lightbulb choice”

I think Michele Bachmann needs to have a CASE of Whatever kind of light bulb delivered to her to place in her cranium. Catch a clue, Bachmann, your light’s NOT on! What a waste of energy, trees and time writing this bill. Once again, Republicans for big business.

let’s not forget automobile insurance- what is that you say????? Purchasing automobile insurance is not OK? Please inform the states that tow your automobile and fine heavily if a citizen does not purchase this product.

As a woman living with lupus, I have a severe photosensitivity to UV radiation, which ALL fluorescent bulbs emit. I realize that my situation isn’t a NORMAL one, but with lupus at an incidence of about 1 in 1000 people and on the rise over the last couple of decades, it will be increasingly more common.

The ban on incandescent bulbs is going to result in an INCREASE in my budget in one way or another, because I will have two options.

The first is to buy the fluorescent bulbs and see the electric bill drop, but see my out-of-pocket healthcare costs go up due to having to buy more sunblock because I’d have to apply it EVERY day. At $12 a tube for the SPF 85 stuff that doesn’t make my skin break out, PLUS the additional expenses for prescriptions to deal with the increased lupus flareups due to the constant UV exposure, I’m looking at $25/month–not to mention the toll on my body from the repeated flares (which will put me at significantly higher risk for kidney damage, cardiovascular disease, and stroke). That’s a REALLY unhappy option.

My other option is to buy all LED light bulbs, but they put out less light, and even though they’re supposed to last a couple of years in a normal fixture, my experience so far has been that they only last a couple of months. At over $5 PER BULB, with 27 bulbs in my home, that’s $135 minimum every couple of months, about $70 per month…not counting the sales tax!

For those who may be interested, I currently use a mix of lower-wattage incandescents and LED bulbs in the lights that I use frequently to keep energy costs and UV exposure down, though others that my sweetie uses frequently (and I avoid using unless absolutely necessary) use CFLs. The bathrooms are lit with LED lights so that I’m not getting UV exposure on my legs when I use the restroom or my entire body when I bathe. The LED lights in the kitchen and low-wattage incandescents in the dining room allow me to cook and eat without having to wear a hat so that my head doesn’t get sunburned, because the lupus has made my hair thin on top. My sweetie loves CFLs, so the master bedroom has LED lights in the bedside lamps and CFLs in the overhead fixture. He also has them in the overhead fixture in the living room and the lamp near his desk, but I have an LED bulb in the one lamp I use in the living room. The room with my computer has a mix of LED, a halogen desk lamp with a UV filter, and a low-wattage incandescent in a torchiere, plus the two 60-watt bulbs in the (rarely-used) overhead fixture. The switch to flat-panel monitors and TVs was something I resisted for a long while because of their reliance on cold-cathode CFL backlights, but with the availability of LED-backlit models, we’ve finally upgraded since the UV output isn’t an issue now.

That said, Bachmann should stop trying to play the partisan game and join forces with the other bill. There was no need to play the divide-and-lose game, and it’s not the first time Bachmann’s said/written something that made me wonder what kind of drugs she’s been taking, because she doesn’t seem to live in the same universe as the rest of us.

For once the perennial dimwit Bachmann has come up with a bright idea. Screw the fluorescent bulb mandate. I also wonder which Asian superpower will be supplying all those bulbs anyway as not one will be made in America. Score minus one for energy independence trade deficits. Thirty years ago I remember when some pointy-headed geeks suggested that the car manufacturers use only round headlights in their auto designs because all other shapes took too much energy to manufacture. Fortunately, that cockeyed idea died a quiet death. I am hoping the furor caused when mainstream America finally realizes that in nine months it will be illegal to use incandescent light bulbs in their personal homes that this boneheaded law will get overturned. I began stocking up on incandescent bulbs months ago. Let Homeland Security just try to come to my house and put out the lights.

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Yeah, and we should be able to buy leaded house paint. And asbestos insulation. How dare the government try to make life better for millions of people when it may cost us a few cents more per month for safe products.

As a Democrat- let me say – you are wrong, this isn’It isn’t Republicans 3 Big Business- giving all the biz to the fluorescent manufacturers and the so-called “green lobby” is big business. Note earlier commenters on electromagnetic radiation and dermatological issues with fluorescents– actually Bachmann is score 1 for the little guy! Incandescents have not electromagnetic field and no mercury and hence groundwater disposal problem. Fluorescents have both. which light bulb is better for humans and which one for big business, I ask you?????

I hope people do remember just what the GOP really did as soon as they got elected.
I hope their subborness is tempered by their good sense to do what is in their own best interest because the GOP is definately not in the common person’s best interest, clearly.

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It’s even worse…

How manufacturers and vested interests have pushed for the ban on regular light bulbs, and received big CFL program favors, on http://ceolas.net/#li12ax
with documentation and copies of official communications

Also RE it “would result in $7 in energy savings for the consumer”,
that does not hold up….
the so-called power factor of common CFLs alone
means twice the energy is used as your meter says
( http://ceolas.net/#15eux with Sylvania, Department of Energy and other references – and with more on why supposed CFL savings don’t hold up)