The Light Goes Out

The lightbulb.  What an invention!  It allows us to read late at night and work around the clock if we so wish.  Its soft glow lets a young parent help a new baby in the wee hours - and provides the parents of birdies (that would be me) to have a small "nighty night" light for those who suffer from "night frights."

Now, the lovely light from the incandescent will soon go dark.

The last major GE factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs in the United States is closing this month, marking a small, sad exit for a product and company that can trace their roots to Thomas Alva Edison's innovations in the 1870s.

The remaining 200 workers at the plant here will lose their jobs.

What is wrong with this picture?  Just about everything.

Consumers will lose the ability to utilize a product that was cheap, efficient and worked marvelously.  We no longer will have the beautiful light of the incandescent, and instead will be saddled with what many perceive to be a more harsh and far less attractive light.  We will spend vastly more for a lightbulb - and if, God forbid, one of the damn things breaks, clean-up is expensive, dangerous and scary.  Then, of course, there are the factories in our nation that have closed, and all the jobs that have disappeared.

Thank you, Congress!

Someone please tell me why it is that liberals are staunch advocates of choice when it comes to abortion - but just about everything else, they want to cram down our throats what they think is best for our lives.  For those who like those curly, expensive, harsh light bulbs - enjoy!  Why, though, are the rest of us saddled with a product we don't want and is of dubious utility.  Please; don't scream at me about how they are saving the environment.  I know when I stay in a hotel room with the damn things, I leave my lights on all the time.  I do not want to have to wait 2-3 minutes while the silly things light up. 

Can a new Congress bring back our bulbs?  I dunno.  All I know is that a bunch of dim bulbs have voted away the right of the rest of us to choose what we deem best for the way we live our daily lives.  Next November, let's vote a bunch of them away!

Comments

[John Pepple]

They are very nice in our study in the winter, because they help heat the room. Since we spend a lot of time in our study, we can keep the rest of the house cooler, and still be warm in the study. Granted, in the summer they're not so great, but we don't need the lights on for so many hours anyway because the sun is up longer.

It's so stupid to get rid of incandescent bulbs.

[Peg]

Maybe I will consider giving up my incandescents when elite liberals give up their private jets, their 2nd, 3rd and 4th homes, their vacations around the world - and so forth and so on.

[Michael Valle]

Let the incandescent light bulb become a symbol of resistance!

[Rick Caird]

It is more than just the loss of incandescent bulbs. It is the very idea that light bulbs are grist for the Congressional mill. Who ever thought the federal government would be specifying our light bulbs.

I suspect a candidate who ran on a platform of repealing everything passed since 2006 would be right more often than not.

[Peg]

Rick - you are likely correct about the "everything passed since 2006...."

Sad statement about the current affairs of government - eh?!