Dim Lawmakers
What more embarassment can they bring to the legislature? This kind of thing seems to trivialize the environmental movement and gives people around the globe something to laugh at Californians about.
- Sacramento Bee: Legislators want to turn out the lights on incandescent bulbs
Assemblyman Lloyd Levine, D-Van Nuys, said the intent of his bill is to phase out the standard, incandescent bulb in favor of a more energy-efficient model.
Legislation is needed because many consumers, faced with a much cheaper retail price for a traditional bulb, don't realize that an energy-efficient model can burn 10 times longer and save perhaps $55 per bulb in the long run, Levine said.
Levine said his proposal would ban the sale of incandescent bulbs by 2012.
Assemblyman Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, announced Tuesday that he has created a separate bill to ban incandescent bulbs by 2018, thus providing a 10-year phaseout period.
Huffman and Levine said late Tuesday that they will work together on merging the two measures, but they have not yet agreed on specifics.
Lightbulb jokes anyone?
2 comments:
When lightbulbs are outlawed, only outlaws will have lightbulbs.
Levine continues to hit hard at the truly big issues. When I look around, I can tell that the light bulbs are the environmental problem in L.A.. Thanks Lloyd for the inspirational leadership.
The really good news is that we'll get Stuart "Levine Redux" Waldman in his place in January 2009. Maybe we'll probably get that long-awaited ban on pencil shavings (if we all moved to mechanical pencils we could save trees, yeah!)
Moronic.
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