The Patriot Post® · Light Bulb Ban Approaches

If you’re looking for a stocking stuffer, here’s a good one: Incandescent light bulbs. Thanks to efficiency standards enacted in 2007, traditional 40-watt and 60-watt incandescent light bulbs will be left in the dark beginning January 1. After that, “it will become illegal to manufacture or import traditional 60-watt and 40-watt incandescent bulbs,” according to Fox News. “The 2007 law doesn’t mandate that manufacturers discontinue their bulbs, just that they improve them: 40W bulbs must draw just 10.5W, and 60W bulbs 11W.” As a result, consumers will be forced to choose a costlier replacement. Obama once infamously said that, “Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” As will the cost of complying with efficiency standards.