Tag: light bulb

Yesterday's Politico article:

"Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate," he said. "We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable."

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45059.html#ixzz15AsSPtxL

Congressman Fred Upton's work with environmental groups is what needs to be highlighted in this article.  

Global Warming theory is thoroughly debunked.  It is not only not caused by human industry, it is not happening.  Moreover, the Congressman is seeking the top spot on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the chair of such a committee must realize this.

Further, the fluorescent bulbs that are held in favor by extremist environmentalists contain mercury, one of the elements the green movement decries when killing coal plants.  Their hypocrisy is stunning.

Thomas Edison's work was the result of his life-long interest in science.  Fred Upton's consultation with the scientific agenda of the green movement, which is not science, but an ideology, must be pointed out.

Congressman Fred Upton has been receiving harsh criticism of his quest to become chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The Republican has co-sponsored a bill with a liberal Democrat to ban the incandescent light bulb, which was originally made available to the masses by Thomas Edison, because, in Upton's view, it uses too much energy. Upton believes we, as a society, must focus on energy savings since our energy needs will double in a certain time frame due to a study done by God knows who, and paid for probably by a green group.

Upton argued that only 10% of the "obsolete" incandescent energy use was light, and 90% was heat, making the fluorescent a more efficient bulb.

So he introduced a bill to ban Edison's lightbulb by 2012.