The curly bulbs contain mercury, this is something environmentalist,(not to be confused with the enviro-nut cult) refer to as pollution. It causes retardation, liver,kidney,and brain damage. It never leave your body,ever. it can be passed from a pregnant woman to her baby. it can not be removed from soil or water. In the past two years I have watched 3 people (all of whom were programed to cry if they see someone mixing paper and plastic) throw away a cell phone.
And the coal burned to create electricity contains Mercury and other toxins. Hence the desire for more energy efficient light bulbs. Less coal equals less pollution.
@dudev incorrect. the mandate was the effort to create yet another government monopoly. That is always the goal of the fed/state bureaucracy government, subsidies and tax credits and regulations are to create fed/state monopolies, and eliminate markets.
It was part of a larger bill on energy efficiency which covered everything from fuel efficiency, green building materials, government waste, and bio-fuels. There's no monopoly because the government isn't in the business of making CFL bulbs, and the bulbs are made by many different manufacturers. So where's the monopoly?
@dudev the bulbs are subsidized by the government and the government made it a crime to purchase competing products, it doesn't get much more monopolized than that does it?Only obamacare could be worse.
No. And the federal energy bill promoting CFL's was signed by George W. Bush in 2007. The California law was signed by Arnold Schwarzenegger, also a republican. Why mention Obama? You haven't properly explained how it's a monopoly. Which competing products? Many companies make CFL's. My own city was handing out free CFL's, but that's not a monopoly to promote one brand over another. Walk into a store and see all the different brands.
@dudev They had a name for people like you in the fifties, " parliamentary pirates" You will drone on and on about nonsense, up to and including lying through your stinking teeth to keep people away from serious debate about ending socialist subversion. it isn't going to work this time. there are way too many Americans that have figured out what you are and what you want. We fought a civil war on the issue of slavery once. that's enough.
What did I say that's a lie? Why don't you argue with evidence and facts instead of your big mouth? You're the salve to anti-intellectualism. You're a child, comparing a fight over choice of light bulbs to a civil war and slavery. You don't even know what a monopoly is. Grow up.
@dudev They had a name for people like you in the fifties, " parliamentary pirates" You will drone on and on about nonsense, up to and including lying through your stinking teeth to keep people away from serious debate about ending socialist subversion. it isn't going to work this time. there are way too many Americans that have figured out what you are and what you want. We fought a civil war on the issue of slavery once. that's enough.
Congress did not ban incandescents, merely set new energy standards for all lightbulbs (incandescent or otherwise). At the time they passed the bill, no incandescent bulbs met the new standards. Manufacturers have figured out how to create incandescent bulbs that align with the new energy standards for bulbs- they are already on the market.
Gabby Gifford's shooter was actually a registered independent who was 1) Atheist and 2)Obsessed with lucid dreaming. Neither of which fit the stereotype of a tea party members. Judging on how paranoid this guy was, I'm sure he already assumed the Tea Party was hijacked before it even began.
Not that I particularly like the Tea Party, but when I google 'Tea Party attack' I saw more results for union members beating up black tea party members. I guess they're just better with SEO.
If you think my toilet paper inventory is ridiculous you should see the shelves of light bulbs I have!! F^ck-'em those new bulbs make me physically ill!! Seriously nauseous!
Congress has *NO* authority to declare what kind of bulbs people can buy or manufacturers can make or stores can sell. This is an overstepping of the federal government and we should fight it no matter what it is.
Congress has the power to regulate commerce. It's set in the Constitution. So it has every authority. Don't Americans know their own laws? I guess not.
Congress has the authority to regulate INTERSTATE commerce. Congress can only regulate commerce that crosses over state lines.
This power was ONLY intended to alleviate the burden of all states needing to create separate governmental contracts, and to help facilitate trade between states. This was NEVER intended to be abused so as to regulate what can and cannot be shipped across state lines.
Besides, intrastate commerce would be completely exempt from this authority.
@dudev Next time you want to pull that cocky-ass attitude on YouTube, make sure you know what you're talking about. Sucks to sound like a dumbass doesn't it? Be glad it was only on YouTube where you're faceless and nameless.
God, just remembered mcdonalds rap so looked this up. This is dumb, videos suck, and you look like a dumber fuck then when you started. Boo!! Get a life, you music is lame. You should be working at mcdonalds, not making money off idiots who watch stupid youtube shit continuously. Not even good writing, just thrown together.
"Why should government be allowed to tell me what I can and cannot do?" Well if government can say who can and cannot serve in the military, and who can and cannot marry, and who can and cannot drive, and what you can and cannot do with your own body, why shouldn't they be allowed to say what you can and cannot put in your lamps.
Ah right, lets honor a bulb made by a person who stumbled onto it not by skill, but instead by luck. Let's Honor a bulb made by someone who tried squashing any competitors with with fear and fallacy. Lets honor a bulb that doesn't last so long relatively compared to the new bulb. Lets honor a crappy bulb that should have been phased out when tesla discovered something worlds better. But what would Tesla know about power or lighting.
@Metool2 If OWS was sponsored by a political party, then why were more than 1500 protesters jailed in the first 30 days of its run? Compared to the TeaParty that has seen less than 50 of its so called members jailed. Why is it during a TeaParty rally, no journalist carrying the proper credentials is jailed much less shows up. Compared to OWS, where several dozen journalists carrying the proper, law enforcement issued credentials, have been jailed.
@Metool2 Also, if you were correct, then why is the criticism for OWS a largely bipartisan effort? Whereas the criticism towards the TeaParty is from only a few democrats.
@SteinerGaming Simple answer to both. OWS is violent, destructive, a nuisance. Tea Party never was, even though they were called dangerous and terrorists, they never broke the law, they never attacked police, they never destroyed property or denied others their freedoms. And you're mentioning criticism NOW, after OWS has proven to be 99% of the worse of America, whereas before Democrats were lining up to support them, now with the reality out they are wary.
@Metool2 Wow, using talking points and skirting the issues addresses. You like living in the realm of intellectual dishonesty. Come on, address my arguments instead of trying to shift topics. If you're talking about people trying to destroy property(being members of the blackbloc), where booted from every protest they showed up to. And if you want to talk about what is worse for America, explain why the majority of tea party members are hs dropouts and unemployed
@Metool2 Where as OWS majority are not only employed but also have at least a college education. I've brought up more than criticism, I brought up facts. Facts such as the tea party hates the government telling people what they can and cannot do, and yet is so against abortion. OWS actually stands for some, the Tea Party is a bunch of uneducated, unemployed, racist hypocrites. I've brought reason whereas you madame have only brought fallacy and lies.
@SteinerGaming "You can tell what a liberal is doing by seeing what he accuses others of doing", in this case your hilarious reference to 'talking points' which is all you can troll up. Your ignorance is on display by reciting the played out lies about the tea party that has never been verified, but has been repeated ad nauseum, while OWS has proven to be violent, destructive, and only united by an overarching greed and 'Gimme' mentality,and was beloved till it couldn't be hidden.
@Metool2 Since you're going to resort to name calling and making excuses for your lack of content in this discussion aside from what you keep rehashing. I can tell you must have your head up Glenn Beck's arse. Since you wanna talk about violence, let's talk about the white Tea Party members who were arrested for beating up a black member of a local union while calling him the n-word. And as far as a "gimmie" mentality...even Reagan Taxed the wealthy more than Bush AND Obama combined.
@SteinerGaming Yeah, i'm gonna believe that just like Im gonna believe a tea party member tried to blow up times square, shoot gabby giffords, etc...etc.. In the lefts head the Tea Party is guilty until proven innocent, then they're still guilty till they can find something that can stick.
@Metool2 No one said anything about the tea-party trying to blow up time's square, or shoot gabby giffords, both of which have nothing to the proven klansmen attidue of tea-partiers who beat up black people and drop the n word while doing so. You own words admit defeat. Keep trying to strawman, you only show that you want something for yourself.
@Metool2 The tea Party has the gimmie mentality, gimmie more money for the wealthy so they can horde it all to themselves unjustly. As I said, Reagan taxed the wealthy more than 10%, is it a gimmie mentality to want every to pay their fair share? Is it a gimmie mentality to want to have your education mean something? Is it a gimmie mentality to not want to work until you're old and senile and hope you have enough scrapped together to have a cardbox box to wait for death to take you?
@SteinerGaming Then why aren't they arguing for a flat tax? Why aren't they arguing for fair pay? Because they don't want fair. "Fair" is a buzz word for "I want higher taxes on everyone BUT me." You want your education to mean something, get an education that means something, stop wasting time and money on liberal arts and philosophy classes.
@Metool2 Yeah because theology is so much more valuable. And Rick Warren wants pays so much in taxes...oh wait. Rick Warren doesn't but yet he and others like him hoard their wealth into tax shelters while the economy spirals out of control. Again, if a flat tax was grand, why did Reagan call it bunk? Face it madame, you have not a leg to stand on in the intellectual arena.
@SteinerGaming Yes yes, we all know how well you like to play your little violen and whine about your cookie cutter stereotypes of 'poor unfortunate masses'. Ignoring that in this country, we're supposed to look after our own welfare, work hard and save for our future. Instead we're told to give over our money and are promised the government will come back and pay us back... Later. Never being told they will bankrupt themselves, and use you as a hostage for more power.
@Metool2 Ah, yet, that's exactly the situation we're in because of Bush and Obama. Both of who thought it was better to reward massive failures. You've been contradicting yourself too much madame. Perhaps you should just stop and leave the debate to those with enough braincells to go around. Because you clearly have "Cannot Understand Normal Thinking" engraved on your forehead.
@Metool2 You're problem madame is that you're upset because you don't listen to anyone but foxnews, a network that has secure not only the right to lie(since '04), but also the right to invade our privacy.
If we don't have the freedom to choose our light bulbs, we are not really free. If they haven't controlled or banned something, it's only because they haven't yet gotten around to it.
Fox Admits Defeat In Phony War On "Light Bulb Ban" (But Doesn't Know It). Regular Fox News viewers know that the network has spent months hyping a nonexistent "light bulb ban" going into effect on Jan. 1, 2012, that they claim would outlaw incandescent light bulbs. The law in question -- signed by former President George W. Bush -- does not outlaw incandescent bulbs, only inefficient ones.
@aj22one Oh but you can buy shitty bulbs byatch. There is this thing called the internet, you might have heard of it. You can buy things on it. Including your bulbs. Legally.
One of those creepy bulbs burst at a Pizza Hut where we were dining; stuff from that thing blew everywhere and the clean up was a major feat. Needless to say, everyone sitting anywhere around it had to have all of their food replaced, at Pizza Hut's expense, plus there were shards of glass in patrons clothing. It was just fortunate none of it went into any one's eyes. It was an awful experience. These things are really dangerous.
@JILL0704USA1 "dangerous" - yeah, unlike normal shards of broken glass which are quite safe when projected into one's body at a high speed. An uncovered bulb bursting? Why wasn't in encased in anything like a normal light fixture? Where was this? It sounds quite dubious.
Wonder what will happen when the first of the new CFL bulbs gets shattered in the Capitol building? Mebbe our Nannies in Congress will think again after having to flee the premises. Or, watch them exempt themselves and use incandescents. =>[.]<=
@Raycheetah "flee the premises"? How much mercury do you think is in these things? The average cfl contains five milligrams of mercury, hardly a dangerous amount. Even if the all the mercury in the bulb were to evaporate immediately I would feel fairly safe breathing air in a building with as much volume as the Capitol Building.
@Ferus11 Our Congresscritters are ignorant folks. D'ya think they'd risk ANY harm to themselves to linger in a building with "contaminants"? Remember, our gub'mint thinks CO2 is a pollutant, part of the reason they prefer these stupid, new bulbs to be all we Americans can buy for our own use. Where the mercury content becomes a real issue is in the complex (yet completely unenforceable) rules surrounding their disposal, when taken on a nationwide level. ='[.]'=
@GunOwnerDan F Yeah You Can - earlier this year in my state they outlawed four-loko it was an alcoholic energy drink - so the week before businesses were supposed to stop selling it some went and bought what was left and then sold them out of their trunks
How the hell can the Government just outlaw one of the greatest inventions ever introduced into our modern world and created by one of the greatest minds in American and world history? Damn every Progressive who signed this bill, and damn Bush for signing it. I hope there's a special light bulb in hell burning your ass.
LED bulbs are the future. They're coming down in price quickly and if you consider the lifespan cost of each bulb, LEDs already win. For all you whiners who don't think you need to reduce your electricity use, there are new LED bulbs being produced that look just like an incandescent. Time to think quit being selfish.
There is always a way around this ban. 2 Geramns have come up with a legal way of importing and distributing 75 and 100 watt light bulbs – by producing them in China, importing them as “small heating devices” and selling them as “heatballs” … On their website, the two engineers describe the heatballs as “action art” and as “resistance against legislation which is implemented without recourse to democratic and parliamentary processes.”
you can still get incadescents online i think. SOme stores sell old stock. I hate flurescent light period. I find it is really horrible on the eyes and causes eye strain
Just go to Canada or Mexico and buy the incandescent bulbs. They're not going to be illegal in Mexico, Canada or anyplace else in the world. If the incandescent lamp was to be obsolete, why did GE move all their incandescent business to Canada and Monterrey Mexico and spending billions to eliminate all the US workers?
@psbkev Yeah, because I can afford to just hop in my car and drive to Canada to get lightbulbs. Canada is over a day's drive away. Mexico is even further. There's a reason that the shipping industry exists. And now, I wonder how many semi-trucks will be transporting bootleg lightbulbs.
If these bulbs were so amazing why wouldn't everyone just buy them? GOOD POINT
Fortunately there are capitalists hard at work on a more dependable, efficient and inexpensive bulb with all the beautiful light we get from the incandescent....all in the name of PROFIT
@AtibbsSPARTAN Except then they got Congress to ban the incandescent, and now they don't have to make a better bulb. They banned their competition instead of beating them. That's not capitalism - that's corporatism (or crony capitalism). That's everything that is wrong with our current system. (Well, except those politicians on both sides that think we need more "regulation" to make sure that there is less competition.)
The general reason people don't buy even LED bulbs is that people don't do the math and realize it is cheaper for LED bulbs (even at $10 a bulb on Amazon). People will pick the $1 standard bulb over the $10 LED bulb simply do to sticker shock. People think "$10 for a light bulb, that's outrageous" without realizing that standard bulbs cost $11.28 a year total (including 1 replacement), with 4hr/day and the average US energy costs. LED will cost $11.08 the first year, and $1.08 4 the 39yrs.
I agree about he light bulbs, but I have trouble with the mercury argument. The busybodies also got rid of the mercury thermometer, and even though mine often broke and spilled, it wasn't a big deal to clean up. And even in all of those years that we didn't know to protect our hands, we survived.
Bring back incadescent light bulbs AND mercury thermometers!
"For instance, they'll present mass immigration as fine 'n' dandy, while ignoring all or almost all the negative impacts (especially those which develop over time)."
Oh yeah, like how the immigrants take all our jobs while all going on welfare?
Just another example of liberals trying to rob of us of our freedoms and move us towards a socialist country - I made a shirt just for this it's based on the Gonzales flag - If someone made a better light bulb people would buy it.
Libertarians - especially the pseudo libertarians at Reason - have a habit of ignoring *all* the impacts of the policies they support. For instance, they'll present mass immigration as fine 'n' dandy, while ignoring all or almost all the negative impacts (especially those which develop over time).
Likewise with lighting. Reason wants their liberty, they just don't want to pay *all* the costs of it.
P.S. Reason is funded in part by the billionaire Koch brothers, who are in the energy field.
@NoMoreBlatherDotCom You make some good points, especially in reference to the open borders policy, but you are also guilty of selective "reasoning". Citing the Koch brothers has become one of the biggest poison the well fallacies going and vaugue references to nefarious "all" costs. Whats that supposed to mean? Climate change? Secret lightbulb cabal? Ofuscation is a tactic of poor argument. Be more concise.
@jellytoast12 Yup. Interesting Phillips and GE have been the biggest backers of the ban on IC bulbs too. I'm sure it's just a coincidence though. I mean seven dollars for a single CFL lightbulb when a pack of four IC bulbs only cost 2.50. Why in the world would GE and the gang wan to support such a thing?
/watch?v=ELDHaeEsNF0 <-- Sen. Rand Paul on Consumer Choice in Energy Committee Hearing. There's at least two politicians on your side (his father, Ron Paul, being the other).
Grr, this makes me angry. How can the government just come in and tell us what we can and can't buy?! Free market, HELLO?! If I want to buy a so called "inefficient" bulb, I should be able to do so.
@iLuvSmartCars You sound like an asshole. God dammit, it's my right to waste energy! Fuck everybody else, fuck the environmental consequences. I want to use inferior, wasteful technology!
@reign1701a The amount of energy used by lightbulbs is insignificant. Seriously. It's like under 100 watts per hour for the really bright ones. The electric energy used is mostly from a few appliances - water heater, fridge, HVAC, and electric stoves. Minor contributors include TVs, computers, and game consoles. Finally, you have the incandescent bulb, with virtually no statistically significant contribution to the average 920 kwH per month. That's 13 100 watt bulbs on ALL MONTH, 24 h/day.
(Remy during the rise of the automobile) An automobile? Really? What's wrong with my horse and buggy? Gets around just fine. These new fangled "automobiles" are expensive, dangerous, too many problems to list! Horses are so much safer and cheaper--this is madness! /// Oh wait, Remy's just in the pocket of "big coal" and they don't want people lowering their electric bills. Duh.
The big difference is that, during the transition to automobiles, there was no government mandate to force people to switch over from horses. True, many states began to build more paved roads, and there was lobbying by the automobile manufacturers for more such automobile-accessible routes, but horse-drawn vehicles were largely voluntarily given up the public in a free market move. ...And, if you're going to accuse Remy of having a secret agenda, let's see some proof.
@marie2137 No one ever banned the horse and buggy. The better product won out. If someone can make something more efficient and competitively priced, more power to them. Have you ever read the warning with a CFL? It says leave the house for 30 minutes if one shatters, and dispose of them at a chemical waste dump. I do like LEDs better than anything, but they are too expensive right now. Corporations lobby for CFLs because they can dispose of mercury by-products into CFLs.
I also like LED's much better than CFL "mercury bombs" (as my wife and I now call them), but the average LED lightbulb still costs around $15 to $25, even more expensive than my reproduction Edison tungsten bulbs I use. I can hope that growing scale of production & greater manufacturing efficiencies may eventually reduce costs for the LED bulbs.
Ha, ha, just to give the middle finger to the government and CFL boosters, I am now lighting some of the rooms of my house with reproduction 60W Edison base "squirrel cage" tungsten filament bulbs, which are about circa 1910s technology. They're sort of inefficient in electrical use, but I can afford it and I enjoy the warm orange glow. I don't think these limited production items are impacted by the new energy standards, but I am stocking up just in case.
This is already reality here in Sweden. It is pitch black everywhere. You can't read a book anywhere, ever. Everyone walks around with dirty clothes because they can't see the stains on them. Imagine winter when the sun rises at 9 am and sets at 2 pm, without real lightbulbs. And the government indoctrinated masses don't even remember that there ever was such a thing as an affordable lightbulb that worked.
@thepeff While Tesla was truly brilliant, more so the Edison, it was are talking about the Incandescent Light Bulb, we should give credit where credit is do. The first Incandescent Light Bulb was in 1802 from Sir Humphry Davy, which is nearly 80 years before Edison work.
No, it's not about Tesla, man. Tesla invented the mercury-filled bulb in an electrodeless version. And already early in the twentieth century, about 1910, he published something where he bragged about the inefficiency of incandescents and that it' s not good that train's are coal-powered "because coal consumes itself" and wanted "renewable" energy.
It was great Edison who put together the inventions of others and managed the economic challenge to give New York electric illumination.
@StolenMonkey86 You think George W. "The Constitution is a goddamn piece of paper" Bush is a conservative? Republican /= conservative. Democrat /= liberal. Welcome to the real world. Now you know kung fu. Your eyes only hurt because you've never used them. Here's your complementary trench coat and cool sunglasses.
Conservative and Liberal are words with meanings, and the American political system does not respect that. Lowering taxes is liberal in the truest sense of the word, just as keeping abortion legal is conservative in the truest sense of the word.
I love that all the criticism of CFL are thing that where only true in the 90's or from government gone crazy. The light from a CFL is very close to the light from a standard incandescent and the all turn on near instantly. While there is some mercury in a CFL, if you eat fish you are likely eat the amount of mercury in a CFL every year... Eating mercury is ok, but it there is some on your floor it will kill you. Either way, we should move to LEDs already.
Almost as stupid as putting people in jail for smoking a lil weed.
Oh wait, they already do that...
Gotta love government. Keep on protecting my rights, right? RIGHT!?
corsht 1 day ago 2
Damn you Puff Daddy. Now I'm crying over light bulbs AND Biggie.
JJabulous 3 days ago
Big brother is watching you Remy
bondagebreaker7 1 week ago
No one for 2012!
Because there's no government quite like no government.
PanzerDivisionBOM 1 week ago
That baby is just......awsome.
JOKBO1 3 weeks ago
Buy a halogen then morons!
manimal2878 3 weeks ago
Unibrow.
SeanEsh 3 weeks ago
The curly bulbs contain mercury, this is something environmentalist,(not to be confused with the enviro-nut cult) refer to as pollution. It causes retardation, liver,kidney,and brain damage. It never leave your body,ever. it can be passed from a pregnant woman to her baby. it can not be removed from soil or water. In the past two years I have watched 3 people (all of whom were programed to cry if they see someone mixing paper and plastic) throw away a cell phone.
halloranedward 3 weeks ago
@halloranedward
"The curly bulbs contain mercury"
And the coal burned to create electricity contains Mercury and other toxins. Hence the desire for more energy efficient light bulbs. Less coal equals less pollution.
dudev 1 week ago
@dudev incorrect. the mandate was the effort to create yet another government monopoly. That is always the goal of the fed/state bureaucracy government, subsidies and tax credits and regulations are to create fed/state monopolies, and eliminate markets.
halloranedward 1 week ago
@halloranedward
It was part of a larger bill on energy efficiency which covered everything from fuel efficiency, green building materials, government waste, and bio-fuels. There's no monopoly because the government isn't in the business of making CFL bulbs, and the bulbs are made by many different manufacturers. So where's the monopoly?
dudev 1 week ago
@dudev the bulbs are subsidized by the government and the government made it a crime to purchase competing products, it doesn't get much more monopolized than that does it?Only obamacare could be worse.
halloranedward 1 week ago
@halloranedward
No. And the federal energy bill promoting CFL's was signed by George W. Bush in 2007. The California law was signed by Arnold Schwarzenegger, also a republican. Why mention Obama? You haven't properly explained how it's a monopoly. Which competing products? Many companies make CFL's. My own city was handing out free CFL's, but that's not a monopoly to promote one brand over another. Walk into a store and see all the different brands.
dudev 1 week ago
@dudev They had a name for people like you in the fifties, " parliamentary pirates" You will drone on and on about nonsense, up to and including lying through your stinking teeth to keep people away from serious debate about ending socialist subversion. it isn't going to work this time. there are way too many Americans that have figured out what you are and what you want. We fought a civil war on the issue of slavery once. that's enough.
halloranedward 6 days ago
@halloranedward
What did I say that's a lie? Why don't you argue with evidence and facts instead of your big mouth? You're the salve to anti-intellectualism. You're a child, comparing a fight over choice of light bulbs to a civil war and slavery. You don't even know what a monopoly is. Grow up.
dudev 6 days ago
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@dudev They had a name for people like you in the fifties, " parliamentary pirates" You will drone on and on about nonsense, up to and including lying through your stinking teeth to keep people away from serious debate about ending socialist subversion. it isn't going to work this time. there are way too many Americans that have figured out what you are and what you want. We fought a civil war on the issue of slavery once. that's enough.
halloranedward 6 days ago
This is so true! I bought a new lightbulb for my desk and it took forever to light up, and even then it was dim!
gfltawns 1 month ago
thumbs up for the baby in the background :)
noelsebz90 1 month ago
lol i listen this song for 2 weeks and only now i get that he misses light buld and not girl LOL im stupid
MrGoodGuy2100 1 month ago
soon they will be telling us what kind of food we can eat and what kind of clothes we can wear
556todd 1 month ago
This is a very "discreet" video. =p
aelreynol24 1 month ago
Your vid is a favorite on Ethiopia
tiamarquez0 2 months ago
Congress did not ban incandescents, merely set new energy standards for all lightbulbs (incandescent or otherwise). At the time they passed the bill, no incandescent bulbs met the new standards. Manufacturers have figured out how to create incandescent bulbs that align with the new energy standards for bulbs- they are already on the market.
Your incandescent bulbs are not going away.
julianbatiste 2 months ago
put song on your channel again PLZ!!
MrGoodGuy2100 2 months ago
Bush was a closet Democrat.
constitutionfst 2 months ago
@constitutionfst
Idiot.
dudev 1 week ago
"Salmonella from my easy bake" haha. Best line.
tstrahle 2 months ago
@ssjh13 dumb? This coming from an apparent sheep. People like you are the problem. Brainwashed minions. Toodaloo!
MissScarlett27 2 months ago
who do they think they are to ban incandescent bulbs
64TbirdLandau 2 months ago
fucking kongres!!
MrGoodGuy2100 2 months ago 3
this was deep
QualityKush 2 months ago
such a cute little girl
MrGoodGuy2100 2 months ago
Gabby Gifford's shooter was actually a registered independent who was 1) Atheist and 2)Obsessed with lucid dreaming. Neither of which fit the stereotype of a tea party members. Judging on how paranoid this guy was, I'm sure he already assumed the Tea Party was hijacked before it even began.
Not that I particularly like the Tea Party, but when I google 'Tea Party attack' I saw more results for union members beating up black tea party members. I guess they're just better with SEO.
merkabaradio 2 months ago in playlist Remy's Reason.tv Videos
That awkward moment when you can't read the words in your book and you're about to blame the light bulb until you realize you're wearing sunglasses.
1:35
Mak8907 2 months ago
The random baby in the video is the best
thearabplayer 2 months ago
If you think my toilet paper inventory is ridiculous you should see the shelves of light bulbs I have!! F^ck-'em those new bulbs make me physically ill!! Seriously nauseous!
aries37 2 months ago
Congress has *NO* authority to declare what kind of bulbs people can buy or manufacturers can make or stores can sell. This is an overstepping of the federal government and we should fight it no matter what it is.
FoxeoVideos 2 months ago 23
@FoxeoVideos
Congress has the power to regulate commerce. It's set in the Constitution. So it has every authority. Don't Americans know their own laws? I guess not.
dudev 1 week ago
@dudev Wrong.
Congress has the authority to regulate INTERSTATE commerce. Congress can only regulate commerce that crosses over state lines.
This power was ONLY intended to alleviate the burden of all states needing to create separate governmental contracts, and to help facilitate trade between states. This was NEVER intended to be abused so as to regulate what can and cannot be shipped across state lines.
Besides, intrastate commerce would be completely exempt from this authority.
FoxeoVideos 1 week ago
@dudev Next time you want to pull that cocky-ass attitude on YouTube, make sure you know what you're talking about. Sucks to sound like a dumbass doesn't it? Be glad it was only on YouTube where you're faceless and nameless.
FoxeoVideos 1 week ago
A government that governs best governs least. Great song.
Metool2 2 months ago
God, just remembered mcdonalds rap so looked this up. This is dumb, videos suck, and you look like a dumber fuck then when you started. Boo!! Get a life, you music is lame. You should be working at mcdonalds, not making money off idiots who watch stupid youtube shit continuously. Not even good writing, just thrown together.
chips24811 2 months ago
@chips24811 sounds like your one of the members in congress
thearabplayer 2 months ago
"Why should government be allowed to tell me what I can and cannot do?" Well if government can say who can and cannot serve in the military, and who can and cannot marry, and who can and cannot drive, and what you can and cannot do with your own body, why shouldn't they be allowed to say what you can and cannot put in your lamps.
Stupid noob.
SteinerGaming 2 months ago
Ah right, lets honor a bulb made by a person who stumbled onto it not by skill, but instead by luck. Let's Honor a bulb made by someone who tried squashing any competitors with with fear and fallacy. Lets honor a bulb that doesn't last so long relatively compared to the new bulb. Lets honor a crappy bulb that should have been phased out when tesla discovered something worlds better. But what would Tesla know about power or lighting.
SteinerGaming 2 months ago
One answer... vote Ron Paul!
Limit Government! Bring back the US Constitution.
ConsentoftheGoverned 2 months ago in playlist new 12
@ConsentoftheGoverned You are fooling yourself. The government owns you. Now shut the fuck up and obey like everyone knows you are going to.
Huboons 1 week ago
Join the Tea Party and work to get this insane ban repealed.
caraclaudel 2 months ago
@caraclaudel Isn't the tea party sponsored by wealthy politicians with industrial complexes?
SteinerGaming 2 months ago
@SteinerGaming nope, your thinking of the coffee party.. or OWS.
Metool2 2 months ago
@Metool2 If OWS was sponsored by a political party, then why were more than 1500 protesters jailed in the first 30 days of its run? Compared to the TeaParty that has seen less than 50 of its so called members jailed. Why is it during a TeaParty rally, no journalist carrying the proper credentials is jailed much less shows up. Compared to OWS, where several dozen journalists carrying the proper, law enforcement issued credentials, have been jailed.
SteinerGaming 2 months ago
@Metool2 Also, if you were correct, then why is the criticism for OWS a largely bipartisan effort? Whereas the criticism towards the TeaParty is from only a few democrats.
SteinerGaming 2 months ago
@SteinerGaming Simple answer to both. OWS is violent, destructive, a nuisance. Tea Party never was, even though they were called dangerous and terrorists, they never broke the law, they never attacked police, they never destroyed property or denied others their freedoms. And you're mentioning criticism NOW, after OWS has proven to be 99% of the worse of America, whereas before Democrats were lining up to support them, now with the reality out they are wary.
Metool2 2 months ago
@Metool2 Wow, using talking points and skirting the issues addresses. You like living in the realm of intellectual dishonesty. Come on, address my arguments instead of trying to shift topics. If you're talking about people trying to destroy property(being members of the blackbloc), where booted from every protest they showed up to. And if you want to talk about what is worse for America, explain why the majority of tea party members are hs dropouts and unemployed
SteinerGaming 2 months ago
@Metool2 Where as OWS majority are not only employed but also have at least a college education. I've brought up more than criticism, I brought up facts. Facts such as the tea party hates the government telling people what they can and cannot do, and yet is so against abortion. OWS actually stands for some, the Tea Party is a bunch of uneducated, unemployed, racist hypocrites. I've brought reason whereas you madame have only brought fallacy and lies.
SteinerGaming 2 months ago
@SteinerGaming "You can tell what a liberal is doing by seeing what he accuses others of doing", in this case your hilarious reference to 'talking points' which is all you can troll up. Your ignorance is on display by reciting the played out lies about the tea party that has never been verified, but has been repeated ad nauseum, while OWS has proven to be violent, destructive, and only united by an overarching greed and 'Gimme' mentality,and was beloved till it couldn't be hidden.
Metool2 2 months ago
@Metool2 Since you're going to resort to name calling and making excuses for your lack of content in this discussion aside from what you keep rehashing. I can tell you must have your head up Glenn Beck's arse. Since you wanna talk about violence, let's talk about the white Tea Party members who were arrested for beating up a black member of a local union while calling him the n-word. And as far as a "gimmie" mentality...even Reagan Taxed the wealthy more than Bush AND Obama combined.
SteinerGaming 2 months ago
@SteinerGaming Yeah, i'm gonna believe that just like Im gonna believe a tea party member tried to blow up times square, shoot gabby giffords, etc...etc.. In the lefts head the Tea Party is guilty until proven innocent, then they're still guilty till they can find something that can stick.
Metool2 2 months ago
@Metool2 No one said anything about the tea-party trying to blow up time's square, or shoot gabby giffords, both of which have nothing to the proven klansmen attidue of tea-partiers who beat up black people and drop the n word while doing so. You own words admit defeat. Keep trying to strawman, you only show that you want something for yourself.
SteinerGaming 2 months ago
@Metool2 The tea Party has the gimmie mentality, gimmie more money for the wealthy so they can horde it all to themselves unjustly. As I said, Reagan taxed the wealthy more than 10%, is it a gimmie mentality to want every to pay their fair share? Is it a gimmie mentality to want to have your education mean something? Is it a gimmie mentality to not want to work until you're old and senile and hope you have enough scrapped together to have a cardbox box to wait for death to take you?
SteinerGaming 2 months ago
@SteinerGaming Then why aren't they arguing for a flat tax? Why aren't they arguing for fair pay? Because they don't want fair. "Fair" is a buzz word for "I want higher taxes on everyone BUT me." You want your education to mean something, get an education that means something, stop wasting time and money on liberal arts and philosophy classes.
Metool2 2 months ago
@Metool2 Yeah because theology is so much more valuable. And Rick Warren wants pays so much in taxes...oh wait. Rick Warren doesn't but yet he and others like him hoard their wealth into tax shelters while the economy spirals out of control. Again, if a flat tax was grand, why did Reagan call it bunk? Face it madame, you have not a leg to stand on in the intellectual arena.
SteinerGaming 2 months ago
@SteinerGaming Yes yes, we all know how well you like to play your little violen and whine about your cookie cutter stereotypes of 'poor unfortunate masses'. Ignoring that in this country, we're supposed to look after our own welfare, work hard and save for our future. Instead we're told to give over our money and are promised the government will come back and pay us back... Later. Never being told they will bankrupt themselves, and use you as a hostage for more power.
Metool2 2 months ago
@Metool2 Ah, yet, that's exactly the situation we're in because of Bush and Obama. Both of who thought it was better to reward massive failures. You've been contradicting yourself too much madame. Perhaps you should just stop and leave the debate to those with enough braincells to go around. Because you clearly have "Cannot Understand Normal Thinking" engraved on your forehead.
SteinerGaming 2 months ago
@Metool2 You're problem madame is that you're upset because you don't listen to anyone but foxnews, a network that has secure not only the right to lie(since '04), but also the right to invade our privacy.
SteinerGaming 2 months ago
whats the real song
chrisbenitezs 2 months ago
@chrisbenitezs the real song is a cover of a bad pop song
SteinerGaming 2 months ago
If we don't have the freedom to choose our light bulbs, we are not really free. If they haven't controlled or banned something, it's only because they haven't yet gotten around to it.
ihearttubing 2 months ago
Fox Admits Defeat In Phony War On "Light Bulb Ban" (But Doesn't Know It). Regular Fox News viewers know that the network has spent months hyping a nonexistent "light bulb ban" going into effect on Jan. 1, 2012, that they claim would outlaw incandescent light bulbs. The law in question -- signed by former President George W. Bush -- does not outlaw incandescent bulbs, only inefficient ones.
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marie2137 3 months ago
@marie2137 Ok, but this is Reason TV not Fox....
And, I should be able to buy "inefficient bulbs" if I want to.
aj22one 3 months ago
@aj22one Oh but you can buy shitty bulbs byatch. There is this thing called the internet, you might have heard of it. You can buy things on it. Including your bulbs. Legally.
SteinerGaming 2 months ago
How can government tell me what to put in my Lite Brite?
reneen1018 3 months ago 2
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elkjaw 3 months ago
sick
saqibahmedxbox 3 months ago
One of those creepy bulbs burst at a Pizza Hut where we were dining; stuff from that thing blew everywhere and the clean up was a major feat. Needless to say, everyone sitting anywhere around it had to have all of their food replaced, at Pizza Hut's expense, plus there were shards of glass in patrons clothing. It was just fortunate none of it went into any one's eyes. It was an awful experience. These things are really dangerous.
JILL0704USA1 3 months ago 3
@JILL0704USA1 "dangerous" - yeah, unlike normal shards of broken glass which are quite safe when projected into one's body at a high speed. An uncovered bulb bursting? Why wasn't in encased in anything like a normal light fixture? Where was this? It sounds quite dubious.
marie2137 3 months ago
Time to start stocking up...
JILL0704USA1 3 months ago
It was one of those new 'swirling' designed bulbs, no casings are put around them.
JILL0704USA1 3 months ago
Socialism marches on.
robscott919 3 months ago
@robscott919 the act was signed by George Dubya Bush and incandescents will still be sold, just only efficient ones
marie2137 3 months ago
Wonder what will happen when the first of the new CFL bulbs gets shattered in the Capitol building? Mebbe our Nannies in Congress will think again after having to flee the premises. Or, watch them exempt themselves and use incandescents. =>[.]<=
Raycheetah 3 months ago 3
@Raycheetah "flee the premises"? How much mercury do you think is in these things? The average cfl contains five milligrams of mercury, hardly a dangerous amount. Even if the all the mercury in the bulb were to evaporate immediately I would feel fairly safe breathing air in a building with as much volume as the Capitol Building.
Ferus11 3 months ago
@Ferus11 Our Congresscritters are ignorant folks. D'ya think they'd risk ANY harm to themselves to linger in a building with "contaminants"? Remember, our gub'mint thinks CO2 is a pollutant, part of the reason they prefer these stupid, new bulbs to be all we Americans can buy for our own use. Where the mercury content becomes a real issue is in the complex (yet completely unenforceable) rules surrounding their disposal, when taken on a nationwide level. ='[.]'=
Raycheetah 3 months ago
Damn it now I can't afford even light bulbs... stupid government...
manonjerome1975 3 months ago
I cried!
AtheistRightWing 3 months ago
In less than a month, no more 100 watt bulbs.
STOCK UP NOW!
I wonder if I can sell them next year for profit......
GunOwnerDan 3 months ago 3
@GunOwnerDan F Yeah You Can - earlier this year in my state they outlawed four-loko it was an alcoholic energy drink - so the week before businesses were supposed to stop selling it some went and bought what was left and then sold them out of their trunks
MsSarahJ56 3 months ago
@GunOwnerDan haha, that's what I'm thinkin'!
iLuvSmartCars 3 months ago
People should look up what goes on at the place the new light bulbs are made
its in china and the suicide rate at the factory is so high that they have nets at the second floor to catch people that jump from the windows.
MsSarahJ56 3 months ago
I like Remy.
Choblik 3 months ago
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remember. most people are good and smart than few people.
i8hy6e3 3 months ago
How the hell can the Government just outlaw one of the greatest inventions ever introduced into our modern world and created by one of the greatest minds in American and world history? Damn every Progressive who signed this bill, and damn Bush for signing it. I hope there's a special light bulb in hell burning your ass.
isaias1776 3 months ago
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LED bulbs are the future. They're coming down in price quickly and if you consider the lifespan cost of each bulb, LEDs already win. For all you whiners who don't think you need to reduce your electricity use, there are new LED bulbs being produced that look just like an incandescent. Time to think quit being selfish.
joshuajsward 3 months ago
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joshuajsward 3 months ago
There is always a way around this ban. 2 Geramns have come up with a legal way of importing and distributing 75 and 100 watt light bulbs – by producing them in China, importing them as “small heating devices” and selling them as “heatballs” … On their website, the two engineers describe the heatballs as “action art” and as “resistance against legislation which is implemented without recourse to democratic and parliamentary processes.”
kaymad 3 months ago 17
you can still get incadescents online i think. SOme stores sell old stock. I hate flurescent light period. I find it is really horrible on the eyes and causes eye strain
210482fmj 3 months ago
I hate those damned CFC bulbs.
anabeth1 3 months ago
these new ones cant even get close to lighting a room
whlcat 3 months ago
This ANGERS me to no end! Fucking government. Let the free market decide, you criminal ass clowns!
MissScarlett27 3 months ago 41
@MissScarlett27 you're pretty dumb.
ssjh13 2 months ago
This is more sad and angering than it is entertaining.
MIKON8ERISBACK 3 months ago
OK, I love the sentiment, but seriously, the singing on the chorus makes my head hurt.
siweltnek 3 months ago
Where I am from, we call this bulb glowpear. That's a nicer name than the dry two words 'incandescent' and 'lightbulb'.
Rainer67059 3 months ago
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ZombiedustXXX 3 months ago
Just go to Canada or Mexico and buy the incandescent bulbs. They're not going to be illegal in Mexico, Canada or anyplace else in the world. If the incandescent lamp was to be obsolete, why did GE move all their incandescent business to Canada and Monterrey Mexico and spending billions to eliminate all the US workers?
psbkev 3 months ago
@psbkev Yeah, because I can afford to just hop in my car and drive to Canada to get lightbulbs. Canada is over a day's drive away. Mexico is even further. There's a reason that the shipping industry exists. And now, I wonder how many semi-trucks will be transporting bootleg lightbulbs.
mtanousable 3 months ago 2
@mtanousable Thank You!
MsSarahJ56 3 months ago
@psbkev Canada with ban them next year and there is already a ban on ordering 100W and 75W bulbs, the US won't finish doing so tell 2014. Look it up.
Loathomar 3 months ago
@Loathomar Wrong. The Canadian ban on 100W and 75W has been pushed back by two years. Look it up.
joshuajsward 3 months ago
*8* people hit the WRONG button while sittin in the dark protesting the passing of the incandescent
CreativePlastering 3 months ago
If these bulbs were so amazing why wouldn't everyone just buy them? GOOD POINT
Fortunately there are capitalists hard at work on a more dependable, efficient and inexpensive bulb with all the beautiful light we get from the incandescent....all in the name of PROFIT
AtibbsSPARTAN 3 months ago in playlist Remy's Reason.tv Videos
@AtibbsSPARTAN Except then they got Congress to ban the incandescent, and now they don't have to make a better bulb. They banned their competition instead of beating them. That's not capitalism - that's corporatism (or crony capitalism). That's everything that is wrong with our current system. (Well, except those politicians on both sides that think we need more "regulation" to make sure that there is less competition.)
mtanousable 3 months ago 2
@mtanousable
I agree
AtibbsSPARTAN 3 months ago
The general reason people don't buy even LED bulbs is that people don't do the math and realize it is cheaper for LED bulbs (even at $10 a bulb on Amazon). People will pick the $1 standard bulb over the $10 LED bulb simply do to sticker shock. People think "$10 for a light bulb, that's outrageous" without realizing that standard bulbs cost $11.28 a year total (including 1 replacement), with 4hr/day and the average US energy costs. LED will cost $11.08 the first year, and $1.08 4 the 39yrs.
Loathomar 3 months ago
I agree about he light bulbs, but I have trouble with the mercury argument. The busybodies also got rid of the mercury thermometer, and even though mine often broke and spilled, it wasn't a big deal to clean up. And even in all of those years that we didn't know to protect our hands, we survived.
Bring back incadescent light bulbs AND mercury thermometers!
zvi303 3 months ago
It would help if he wasn't off key when actually singing (during the chorus)...
eagleeye1975 3 months ago
I hope one company says "screw congress" and continues to sell the light bulb.
mbevks 3 months ago 2
@mbevks "Law" means "men with guns will storm your company and arrest you" for selling the light bulbs.
ztSHOCK 3 months ago 2
I'm sure this is what George Washington had in mind.
greeneggs83 3 months ago
you are sucks remy
911yaam 3 months ago
@911yaam you are win the internet todays
jscarter79 3 months ago
We will be seeing light bulb dealers and the war on light bulbs soon.
SpellboundSolution 3 months ago
when will Remy upload videos in his channel?
Comment0136 3 months ago
What's next?! Everyone will be forced to have chia pets to help lower carbon dioxide leves!
sallred24 3 months ago 2
Now THIS is FUNNY!!!
sallred24 3 months ago
"For instance, they'll present mass immigration as fine 'n' dandy, while ignoring all or almost all the negative impacts (especially those which develop over time)."
Oh yeah, like how the immigrants take all our jobs while all going on welfare?
StolenMonkey86 3 months ago
Just another example of liberals trying to rob of us of our freedoms and move us towards a socialist country - I made a shirt just for this it's based on the Gonzales flag - If someone made a better light bulb people would buy it.
wesleyj77 3 months ago
That said, see this site I made where I attempt to shed some light on this glowing issue (remove the spaces):
noCFL . com
NoMoreBlatherDotCom 3 months ago
Libertarians - especially the pseudo libertarians at Reason - have a habit of ignoring *all* the impacts of the policies they support. For instance, they'll present mass immigration as fine 'n' dandy, while ignoring all or almost all the negative impacts (especially those which develop over time).
Likewise with lighting. Reason wants their liberty, they just don't want to pay *all* the costs of it.
P.S. Reason is funded in part by the billionaire Koch brothers, who are in the energy field.
NoMoreBlatherDotCom 3 months ago
@NoMoreBlatherDotCom You make some good points, especially in reference to the open borders policy, but you are also guilty of selective "reasoning". Citing the Koch brothers has become one of the biggest poison the well fallacies going and vaugue references to nefarious "all" costs. Whats that supposed to mean? Climate change? Secret lightbulb cabal? Ofuscation is a tactic of poor argument. Be more concise.
itlfa2009 3 months ago
LMFAO Remy still providing consistent hilarious material I see! So glad Reason picked him up, he's been pwning for quite some time.
But those CFL's do make you feel like you're in a cozy, insane asylum so I don't know why he's complaining. :)
TheFreezer872 3 months ago
Once the incandescents are all gone, expect the CFL's to skyrocket in price. Freaking congress!
jellytoast12 3 months ago 2
@jellytoast12 Yup. Interesting Phillips and GE have been the biggest backers of the ban on IC bulbs too. I'm sure it's just a coincidence though. I mean seven dollars for a single CFL lightbulb when a pack of four IC bulbs only cost 2.50. Why in the world would GE and the gang wan to support such a thing?
itlfa2009 3 months ago 2
/watch?v=ELDHaeEsNF0 <-- Sen. Rand Paul on Consumer Choice in Energy Committee Hearing. There's at least two politicians on your side (his father, Ron Paul, being the other).
ArmitageX 3 months ago
I completely agree, Remy. I hate those other light bulbs!
HockeyFan66871 3 months ago 11
Grr, this makes me angry. How can the government just come in and tell us what we can and can't buy?! Free market, HELLO?! If I want to buy a so called "inefficient" bulb, I should be able to do so.
iLuvSmartCars 3 months ago 36
@iLuvSmartCars You sound like an asshole. God dammit, it's my right to waste energy! Fuck everybody else, fuck the environmental consequences. I want to use inferior, wasteful technology!
reign1701a 3 months ago
@reign1701a The amount of energy used by lightbulbs is insignificant. Seriously. It's like under 100 watts per hour for the really bright ones. The electric energy used is mostly from a few appliances - water heater, fridge, HVAC, and electric stoves. Minor contributors include TVs, computers, and game consoles. Finally, you have the incandescent bulb, with virtually no statistically significant contribution to the average 920 kwH per month. That's 13 100 watt bulbs on ALL MONTH, 24 h/day.
mtanousable 3 months ago 2
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mattc941 3 months ago
Fuck the gov, Light Bright Freedom!
snopro54 3 months ago
Awesome Remy was reading Declaration of Independents in the video!
gneissday 3 months ago
(Remy during the rise of the automobile) An automobile? Really? What's wrong with my horse and buggy? Gets around just fine. These new fangled "automobiles" are expensive, dangerous, too many problems to list! Horses are so much safer and cheaper--this is madness! /// Oh wait, Remy's just in the pocket of "big coal" and they don't want people lowering their electric bills. Duh.
marie2137 3 months ago
@marie2137
The big difference is that, during the transition to automobiles, there was no government mandate to force people to switch over from horses. True, many states began to build more paved roads, and there was lobbying by the automobile manufacturers for more such automobile-accessible routes, but horse-drawn vehicles were largely voluntarily given up the public in a free market move. ...And, if you're going to accuse Remy of having a secret agenda, let's see some proof.
felixjazzage 3 months ago
@marie2137
Oh, yeah, and I was serious about the Edison tungsten lamps in my home. I enjoy being a Luddite--which should be my choice, really.
felixjazzage 3 months ago
@marie2137 No one ever banned the horse and buggy. The better product won out. If someone can make something more efficient and competitively priced, more power to them. Have you ever read the warning with a CFL? It says leave the house for 30 minutes if one shatters, and dispose of them at a chemical waste dump. I do like LEDs better than anything, but they are too expensive right now. Corporations lobby for CFLs because they can dispose of mercury by-products into CFLs.
kjz28 3 months ago
@kjz28
I also like LED's much better than CFL "mercury bombs" (as my wife and I now call them), but the average LED lightbulb still costs around $15 to $25, even more expensive than my reproduction Edison tungsten bulbs I use. I can hope that growing scale of production & greater manufacturing efficiencies may eventually reduce costs for the LED bulbs.
felixjazzage 3 months ago
@marie2137 But you can still legally drive a horse and buggy. Have you ever been to Lancaster, PA?
StolenMonkey86 3 months ago
Ha, ha, just to give the middle finger to the government and CFL boosters, I am now lighting some of the rooms of my house with reproduction 60W Edison base "squirrel cage" tungsten filament bulbs, which are about circa 1910s technology. They're sort of inefficient in electrical use, but I can afford it and I enjoy the warm orange glow. I don't think these limited production items are impacted by the new energy standards, but I am stocking up just in case.
felixjazzage 3 months ago
thanks gov!
snewso 3 months ago
AWESOME!
EWrewind 3 months ago
This is already reality here in Sweden. It is pitch black everywhere. You can't read a book anywhere, ever. Everyone walks around with dirty clothes because they can't see the stains on them. Imagine winter when the sun rises at 9 am and sets at 2 pm, without real lightbulbs. And the government indoctrinated masses don't even remember that there ever was such a thing as an affordable lightbulb that worked.
jrgenkratz 3 months ago
This Remy guy is awesome. He sings what I think.
blogegog 3 months ago
Pfft, Edison?! It's all about Tesla, man!
thepeff 3 months ago
@thepeff While Tesla was truly brilliant, more so the Edison, it was are talking about the Incandescent Light Bulb, we should give credit where credit is do. The first Incandescent Light Bulb was in 1802 from Sir Humphry Davy, which is nearly 80 years before Edison work.
Loathomar 3 months ago
@thepeff
No, it's not about Tesla, man. Tesla invented the mercury-filled bulb in an electrodeless version. And already early in the twentieth century, about 1910, he published something where he bragged about the inefficiency of incandescents and that it' s not good that train's are coal-powered "because coal consumes itself" and wanted "renewable" energy.
It was great Edison who put together the inventions of others and managed the economic challenge to give New York electric illumination.
Rainer67059 3 months ago
@MrConservative608 you mean conservatives like George W Bush, who signed the bill that ended the incandescent light bulb?
StolenMonkey86 3 months ago
@StolenMonkey86
I think there's a world of difference between libertarians and neocons. Guess which Dubya was?
felixjazzage 3 months ago
@StolenMonkey86 You think George W. "The Constitution is a goddamn piece of paper" Bush is a conservative? Republican /= conservative. Democrat /= liberal. Welcome to the real world. Now you know kung fu. Your eyes only hurt because you've never used them. Here's your complementary trench coat and cool sunglasses.
smiledammit24 3 months ago
@smiledammit24 Bush never said "The Constitution is a goddamn piece of paper"
nnjhansen 3 months ago
@nnjhansen nope, just signed the Patriot Act and McCain-Feingold, and held US citizens without charge
StolenMonkey86 3 months ago
Conservative and Liberal are words with meanings, and the American political system does not respect that. Lowering taxes is liberal in the truest sense of the word, just as keeping abortion legal is conservative in the truest sense of the word.
StolenMonkey86 3 months ago
I think I am in love with him
jakesgirl111 3 months ago in playlist Remy's Reason.tv Videos
This is why we HOARD Bulbs!! I have boxes and boxes and boxes!!
savgal1211 3 months ago
At least he isnt stocking his light bub.
I hate the youtube changes
wkumatchstick 3 months ago in playlist Reason.tv Viral Vids
"I'm getting salmonella from my EZ-Bake" Brilliant!!!
drmcmoney 3 months ago
I love that all the criticism of CFL are thing that where only true in the 90's or from government gone crazy. The light from a CFL is very close to the light from a standard incandescent and the all turn on near instantly. While there is some mercury in a CFL, if you eat fish you are likely eat the amount of mercury in a CFL every year... Eating mercury is ok, but it there is some on your floor it will kill you. Either way, we should move to LEDs already.
Loathomar 3 months ago