Joe Heller for January 01, 2014

Thanks Mommy Gov for telling me what light bulbs I can use!Can I still use my air conditioner?

The cartoons point is simply that it is not any more expensive (and in fact is less expensive) to be able to make use of a more conservation of electricity technology that it would be to continue older more out-of-date technology. But, I see that our ultra conservative clowns are not capable of even understanding such a simple idea, even when using said idea would be to their own advantage!!

Every time I use less gas the price goes up.Every time people use less electricity the price goes WAY up.

The problem I have with CFL,s is that they are poisonous when broken. Please perfect the LED bulbs first.

CFL’s contain Mercury, and as Ryan said, has poisonous dust when broken. My light fixtures in the kitchen and bath will not take these government approved bulbs. Why can’t we have a choice? Because we are no longer free.

But my Lava Lite™ won’t WORK with CFLs, it NEEDS the heat from a 40w incandescent bulb!I guess I’ll just have to switch to heatballs.http://heatball.de/en/

The early substitutes for incandescent light bulbs were mostly worthless, providing poor light and requiring new bases. The newer models are more efficient and are easier to retro-fit, especially for ceilings. There are even decent dimmable ones now. Still hard to measure the rate of return, though. It hasn’t been twenty years since we started using the latest models. And when they break, you have to start from scratch.

Make sure you’re not using a bulb that’s too high of wattage for the socket. I’ve made that mistake myself. I had purchased a lamp that specifically stated it was CFL compatible. It had a different wattage limit for incandescent and CFL bulbs. Also try Energy Star compliant light bulbs. Manufacturers must meet quality standards to qualify for logo.

Most of the light bulbs in my house were already CFL when I bought it house 6 years ago. I’ve only needed to replace a couple of them so far. The local utility company offers its customers rebates on purchases of Energy Star compliant CFL and LED light bulbs, as well as Energy Star compliant LED Christmas lights.I’ve also found that you should do some homework before purchasing. Aside from the differences in the amount of light given (measured in lumens), there is now also color temperature. Like Clark Kent, I usually go with a color temperature around 5500 to mimic daylight. Those who prefer the color of the incandescent bulb should look for a CFL or LED with a color temperature of around 2700. You can find incandescent watts to lumens and color temperature charts via a simple internet search.

I’ve been using CFLs for years; the first thing I noticed is how much less often I am changing them — which is handy when switching track lights on the ceiling of my living room. I’ve had some bad ones; but mostly they’ve been solid. I have been switching over to LEDs slowly, and they’re great — I haven’t changed one single LED bulb yet. They also don’t slow down the way CFLs do, especially in the cold. As my bulbs expire, I am replacing with LEDs about one out of every three to save costs. The prices will go down son enough.

Perhaps Tigger is unaware we are a nation of scofflaws.

OMG! OBAMA IS COMING TO TAKE YOUR LIGHT BULBS! -And, your guns, of course.

^Speaking of constantly putting out excess “gas”.

I have outdoor CFL floods. Except for the slow-on, they have worked fine. Also, there are now “Bright White” CFLs that give much better light.And fascists can’t do math or think for themselves either. They need Rush and Fox and Beck to scare them into thinking THE GUBMINT is EVIL! Until they get their tax refund!

I am sorry if you have had so much trouble with you newer lighting, really I am. Of course, when you get something for nothing, then perhaps the quality of that something is not the best? I have had exactly the opposite experience, in that I have found that in the past incandescent light bulbs are very short lived, and have a great tendency to go “pop” and burn out when being turned on. I have found that as long as you do not actually break the new CFL light bulbs they seem to last almost indefinitely (and I would think that LED’s would be even better), while at the same time giving off good light for a whole lot less electric wattage!!

Now Now We all must remember that big brother is all wise and we should be honored. Big brother knows best and is watching and listening.

I’ve had many more incandescent instant failures over fluorescent (CFL) instant failures. Neither technology is perfect. Building more electricity generating plants is expensive, and putting more money into military hardware instead is preferred by our rwnjs. We can have many more CFL and LED bulbs providing light without building more electricity generating plants, thus saving money for more military hardware and bombs to drop on someone we don’t like.

@ruff Sounds like the military were interrogating the whole population of the country they’d just invaded…?

I guess what I mean by perfecting the LED lights is to make them more accessible in the market.

I want a CRT tv, who took all the CRT tv’s? *Is this a government plot aginst CRT tv watchers?*Did the government ban CRT tv’s?*All I can find are thin lite low energy using lcd, led and plasma tv’s.*It has to be a government plot!!!!!*