Category: Light Bulb Ban

Posts and articles about the banning of incandescent light bulbs which was created by the energy efficiency standards set by H.R. 6 in 1997.

Government Subsidies of CFLs and Planned Obsolescence

From the candlepowerforums.com forum: I do wonder about their performance claims, however. If it were so easy to make incandescents hit into mid double-digit efficiency, why didn’t the manufacturers do…

Federal Budget Bill Will Not Enforce Light Bulb Efficiency Standards

The current version of the bill (H.R.3547 – Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014) will not allocating funds to implement or enforce the law that is going into effect.  Led by the…

eCandescent Kickstarter campaign has launched!

The first incandescent that can legally be sold in the USA after January 1, 2015!  It’s as energy efficient as a CFL curly bulb without any of the toxins and…

Loss Of Regular Light Bulbs Costly

From the Editor: If you like your light bulbs, you can’t keep them. (This promise was honest). Almost two-thirds of the public was not aware that as of Jan. 1,…

Senate spending bill withholds funds for bulb enforcement

Besides funding major programs, the federal spending bill that the Senate passed Thursday contains a provision that has gained little notice yet affects consumers nationwide. The legislation, which now heads…

The Incandescent Light Bulb Is Not Dead

Reference: TheVerge.com  By Sean Hollister on January 1, 2014 02:30 pm Email Perhaps you’ve heard the news: the incandescent light bulb is dead. “When the ball drops on New Year’s…

Is It Getting Dark Yet?

Note:   Excerpt from “How Many Congressmen Does It Take To Screw In A Light Bulb”http://cei.org/op-eds-articles/how-many-congressmen-does-it-take-screw-light-bulb It’s late in the day, and you switch on your lights as you go back…

The Legislation that De-Funded the “Light Bulb Ban”

I have been in a conversation the last couple days with a couple people where we were trying to find the exact wording of the “rider” that de-funded the “ban”. …

Industry: Light bulb war a dim idea

Note:  This article was written in December 2011.  I am reprinting it here because some of the insights into the reasoning of Big Energy are eye-opening.  Additionally, the final statement…

Missouri Bill deems bulb regulations not valid intrastate.

Missouri local state Rep. Chuck Gatschenberger and others have also, January 19, launched a bill 1146, that “Specifies that the intrastate manufacturing of certain incandescent lightbulbs is not subject to…