Here is a TED talk by an efficiency expert who discusses why humans like simple choices...and why 'plastic' is better than 'paper' for bags.

http://www.ted.com/talks/leyla_acaroglu_...

Jan

And they would have been developed earlier without government decrees and interference suppressing the economy, and lining the pockets of government and corporate looters.

It isn't idiots. It is an insidious conspiracy of intelligent and irrational sociopaths.
We have to find a productive use for our anger.

And the looters want to jam through the TPP agreement without any review to make that automatic. If the government resists the international tribunal will impose billions in damages (and lilkely fines to pay the "impartial" judges a fortune.

lol. I like LEDs as well.

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? :-)

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

All domestic production ceased. Yet another every-day item we must get from abroad.

But don't you want our more than equal elite betters to protect their earth goddess from we the collective parasites?

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=eart...

OMMMMMMMMMMMMMM . . . . .

Old dino been mad a long time ago. Now I'm just sarcastic.

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...

to the best of my knowledge the ge factory in the upper Midwest was close so they could make these new bulbs in china.

freedomforall, thank you.

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

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

I like LED's too, and if the testing continues to progress (and assuming rationality in the electric generation industry), soon the pollution of coal electric generation will be cut in half by a new invention.

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.

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