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Uploaded by on Feb 17, 2011

Congressman Akin discusses the light bulb ban on the House floor. Feb 17, 2011.

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  • STOCK UP ON INCANDESCENT WHILE YOU CAN!

  • @jns1027 To some degree you are correct. They are building efficiency standards in incandescent bulbs such as the Halogens. But what you fail to mentioned is that by 2020, theres going to be a stricter set of efficiency standards which MIGHT ban halogen bulbs if they cant build meet those standards by then. Your examples of vechicles vs light bulbs is VERY poor. I prefer warmer, and nicer light. cfls produce gloomy and shitty light and they dont even last as long as ur told. So YOU'RE the moron

  • Morons. Emissions law must now be called "bans on truck freedom". They require lights etc for cars to be "street legal", but nobody says that restricts their "car freedom". The consumer would've never known about this "ban" until the read the fine print on their incandescent bulbs, which still were going to be produced, just with more efficient standards. Get mad about real shit instead of this bull. U worry the gov tells u what to do, but who do u think told u this bill "takes away freedom"?

  • Those bulbs are energy efficient because they produce about as much light as a fucking lit match.

  • HE IS RIGHT!

    I will vote him!

  • @codematrix the problem here is that government is way too up in our pants. They're suppose to represent us, not tell us what to do. i cant help but to laugh at the morons who actually agree with the ban. i wouldnt worry too much about it though cuz we will have some choices after 2014. In fact, i read on a few articles that congress is seriously considering repealing the light bulb ban. im not sure if it will happen but just in case, i would stock up on edison bulbs like im doing.

  • CFLs dont work in all places of ur house. There are fixtures in ur home where incandescents are needed. Plus CFLs take a while to warm up. When ur leaving them on waiting on them to warm up, thats wasting energy. And many CFLs dont have, not even close to the life span thats claimed. Yet, i have incandescents that havent burnt out in years. This is why the ban is stupid. again, i like to have pleasent lighting. My home is not gona look like the inside of a shopping mall.

  • @geeeeeeo - So basically what you're saying is that its OK for me to give up my choice (freedom) to choose which light blub I want to use? No thanks. Less goverment is the only choice that I will attend too.

  • @geeeeeeo I'm not resistant to change as long as its reasonable. The bulb ban is not only unreasonable but STUPID. we've been using edisons for over 100 years, so why are u liberals complaining about them now? When i come home and i wana relax, i like to have pleasent lighting in my house. CFLs give off horrible lighting AND they dont work in all places. i am amazed how u eco friendly terrorist wana control ppls lives by forcing us to use products that dont work, harmful and gloomy.

  • @noreaga12326 CFLs will not save the planet all by themselves - they're not Superman. But ordinary light bulbs only transfer 20% of energy consumed into light, as opposed to CFLs, which transfer almost 100%. People are by nature resistant to change and in this case a law is needed in order to change a defective mentality.

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