“It looks like lights out for old-fashioned incandescent bulbs.
The Republican-controlled House voted 233-193 on Tuesday for the Better Use of Light Bulbs Act, which would have repealed higher energy-efficiency standards for bulbs. But the measure needed a two-thirds majority to pass.
House Republicans can still try to adopt the measure under different procedures requiring only a simple majority, but it’s unlikely it would get through the Democratic-controlled Senate.”
“The last major GE factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs in the United States is closing this month…
The remaining 200 workers at the plant here will lose their jobs…
What made the plant here vulnerable is, in part, a 2007 energy conservation measure passed by Congress that set standards essentially banning ordinary incandescents by 2014….
Rather than setting off a boom in the U.S. manufacture of replacement lights, the leading replacement lights are compact fluorescents, or CFLs, which are made almost entirely overseas, mostly in China…
none of the major brands make CFLs in the United States.”
Are you freaking morons TRYING to kill USA jobs?
2 comments:
SBVOR,
Know anything about this group?
http://www.sepp.org/index.cfm
I "discovered" them from this post...
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/07/why-global-warming-alarmism-isnt-science.php
It appears Fred Singer from this organization is speaking at CSU tomorrow night and I'm trying to determine if I want to head up there or not.
Chris,
I am not familiar with SEPP. I have some knowledge of Fred Singer. The alarmists hate him. What better recommendation could be offered?
The PowerLine entry is excellent and very much in line with most everything I've ever said.
If you can spare the time, I would suggest you attend. The question is, will the local nut jobs even allow him to speak? Please let me know. Bring your video camera!
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