tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6385669392652428014.post1802005781444737377..comments2023-10-10T20:15:11.438+10:00Comments on The Way I See It....: U.S. Pollies See the Light !Dr. Word-Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14496742689676118590noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6385669392652428014.post-8699055829625876142011-04-15T19:08:38.351+10:002011-04-15T19:08:38.351+10:00(continued)
On a deeper level, it's about cel...(continued)<br /><br />On a deeper level, it's about celebrating Creativity – not Destruction.<br /><br />Celebrating creativity is about recognizing the advantages that<br />different products have.<br />That is why they exist for people to choose.<br />(Some “efficient incandescents” like Halogen replacements will<br />temporarily be allowed, phase-out by 2020, but in a smaller range, with a whiter light and<br />constructional differences, apart from being much more expensive for<br />marginal savings, which is why neither consumers or governments like them)<br /><br />President Obama, State of the Union Address 25 January 2011:<br /><b><i>What we can do – what America does better than anyone – is spark the<br />creativity and imagination of our people.<br />We are the nation that put cars in driveways and computers in offices,<br />the nation of Edison and the Wright brothers…</i></b><br /><br />Yes Mr President, Creative America, the nation of Edison:<br />Would you not have allowed him to create his popular light bulb?<br /><br /><br />And so it came to pass, in the autumn of 1879, after tireless effort<br />working with different materials, Thomas Edison finally arrived at the<br />ingenious invention we still see today, the Edison light bulb, in its<br />basic form the world’s single most popular electrical appliance and<br />the oldest electrical invention in widespread common use:<br />A beautifully simple, safe, cheap, bright light delivering construction.<br /><br />Maybe the time will come when, like its cousin the gleaming radio<br />tube, it gradually fades away, the passing of old technology.<br /><br />But let it be a democratic passing by the will of the people, <br />not a passing by committee dictats and decrees.<br /><br />How many American, European or other officials should it take to<br />change a light bulb?<br />None.<br /><br />How many citizens should be allowed to choose?<br />Everyone.<br /><br />( <a href="http://ceolas.net/" rel="nofollow">http://ceolas.net</a> )<br />.Lighthousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08123172670211101092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6385669392652428014.post-66133675524080520502011-04-15T19:07:43.127+10:002011-04-15T19:07:43.127+10:00Frank
it's clearly wrong to ban a safe simple...Frank<br /><br />it's clearly wrong to ban a safe simple product like the regular light bulb!<br /><br />It's not lead paint!<br /><br />In fact, even more ironically they are being banned in favor of complex and arguably unsafe products, like you say<br />(CFL with mercury and radiation, LED with lead and arsenic concerns)<br /><br /><br />Any Tube amp using guitarists out there like myself?<br /><br />No-one was calling for “a ban on energy guzzling tubes”<br />(similarities with regular incandescents, vacuum tubes originally!)<br />when they were abundant, <br />and newer transistors (similarities with LEDs, diodes!) were arriving on the market.<br /><br />The tubes got used less anyway – but are still appreciated for special<br />uses, without breaking down any power plant, as we know!<br /><br />Hence:<br />If a NEW product is preferred to the old one, why ban the old one?<br />(No point, little savings)<br />If an OLD product is preferred to the new one, why ban the old one?<br />(No point, the old one is better)<br />Think about it.<br /><br />We can welcome the new<br />- it does not mean having to ban the old!<br /><br /><br />This light bulb ban is lunacy at every level:<br />The overall USA energy savings aren't even there <br />-see the below website link -<br />and even if there were savings, people pay for the electricity supply,<br />of which there is no shortage.<br /><br />(continued)Lighthousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08123172670211101092noreply@blogger.com