Light Bulb Ban Takes Effect January 1

(Before It's News)

As the New Year begins, traditional light bulbs will be history.

Light bulb manufacturers will stop making 40 and 60-watt incandescent light bulbs at the start of 2014, a year after the 75 and 100-watt varieties were also phased out.

It’s all because of a law signed by President George W. Bush in 2007 (the law was passed by the Democrat-controlled legislature) designed to eliminate the energy inefficiency caused by traditional light bulbs. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, only 10 percent of an incandescent bulb’s energy is converted to light, with the rest wasted as heat.

CNN reported that instead of incandescent bulbs, consumers will be able to choose from halogen, compact fluorescent, LED, and high efficiency incandescent bulbs. While all these are quite a bit more expensive than traditional bulbs, they save energy and money in the long-run, supporters note.

The new rules will likely irk consumers already facing high prices for consumer goods, as well as libertarians and Tea Party supporters who believe the government should not dictate what kinds of light bulbs people can buy. If the new ones are really better, they argue, people will make the change on their own.

Republicans tried to overturn the law, but when that didn’t work, they shifted to preventing the Department of Energy from spending money to enforce it.

Source: http://www.offthegridnews.com/2013/12/25/light-bulb-ban-takes-effect-january-1/

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