Out of Pod Experience

I use CFLs because I hate changing light bulbs, but the light produced by CFLs is horrible compared to a good incandescent. There's also the fact that flourescent lights have been found to cause all sorts of problems for people who have difficulties with learning disorders.

Quality LED bulbs aren't available in the local (rural) market due to cost. There just aren't enough people around here willing to invest the money now to get future savings. And I don't like the idea of ordering LEDs online without seeing what kind of light they actually produce. It would cost hundreds of dollars to convert my house and I'd be stuck with a bad set of lights for quite a while.

so dont be stupid by ordering a whole bunch to start with, order a single one to test, and THEN decide if you want to go LED or wait for the halogen incandescent bulbs to hit local stores.

Lol I love the mercury scare. The actual amount of mercury is so god damn minimal. Don't people remember not to long ago people use to play with mercury in science class? Use to roll that **** around on their bare hands! (HOLY ****! CALL A HAZMAT TEAM!) Somehow that generation survived... And managed to reproduce semi salient off spring. (Course I suppose that's a matter of opinion or point of view).

Then again these are the people that believe sticking sugar water up your ass will prevent brain tumors, Vaccines == the devil (MMR outbreaks in France be damned!) and the same folks that hate seat belt laws. (Though if retards really dont want to wear em who the hell am I to say no? I just dont feel like paying for their stupidity. Me I'll continue to wear mine having been in an accident or 2)

In which case why am i arguing with these people? But honestly can't you make the whole "Slippery slope" argument for anything? You BAN X, Y, Z pretty soon you'll be banning books! or the interwebs!... Or Speech!...or babies... Technically they're not banned btw.

That's just dirty North Korean propaganda

OP is a total moron.

There there,, you're among friends now. Show us on the doll where progress touched you.

No, it would be a democrat raising taxes, which would blow up in said democrat's face because republicans HATE it when democrats raise taxes.

However, it's so strange that republicans can raise taxes on the working class without even batting an eye lash and their party members don't ***** at all...

http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/

I rather enjoy this blog on the topic written by Tom Murphy, associate physics professor UCSanDiego.

I still fail to see anyone addressing my point:

If CFLs and LEDs are so great, why is a ban required?

I see post after post asserting how 'superior' the new bulbs are....but very little evidence in terms of sales numbers and market share.

Explain to me why isn't the public buying them? Incandescent bulbs were obviously entrenched - but this doesn't explain how US market share for incandescent bulbs is actually increasing in the last few years, as consumers reject CFLs.

Why is their market share actually going backwards in the United States - if the 'new bulb' is so self-evidently better?

Answer: Because its not. The new bulbs trade energy use for lower quality and increased cost - and most consumers aren't willing to make that trade off.

Its about as intelligent as banning expensive 4-ply toilet paper - forcing people to use the 'green' alternatives that come apart in your hand when you wipe (and then you use twice as much)

Essentially what the green pro-ban people are saying, is screw consumer choice - because of our fairy tale green religion, we have to ration energy use and we will, despite obvious consumer preferences to the contrary. These are the same idiots who talk about how great Electric cars are - but are confused as to why the public doesn't fall over themselves to buy them....instead of the Ford F-150.

Their Solution: Ban the Ford F-150. (or at least, ban the engines that make them a popular choice)

They are no better than those social conservatives that supposedly want to ban books and set up shop in your bedroom in the name of other religions.

Dude, I honestly think you could use some psychological attention. You're making a lot of irrationnal generalisations (like claiming that intelligent people are against the ban, and so implying that all "leftists", you you also claim are all for it, are idiots) to support your hatred of Obama and "leftists". It is borderline fanatical reasonning, and much more harmful to your country that a ban on obsolete lighting tech ever will.