The future of the light-bulb ban

By the Freedom Action Network:

1. The Future of the Light Bulb Ban
2. An Inconvenient Truth Keeps People Warm

Both videos are spoofs, you say.  Well, these news items on incandescent light bulbs are not spoofs:

• California may ban conventional lightbulbs by 2012 - Yahoo! News
• Alert to hoarders: old light bulbs soon to vanish ( Canada ), January 8, 2011
• Bootleg Lightbulbs Coming to California  (Starting Jan. 1, Incandescents cannot be bought .. legally) December 27, 2010
• German “heatball” wheeze outwits EU light bulb ban (Lightbulb=Heater) October 16, 2010
  (Alas, that thit not pan out. The importers were subsequently arrested and their contraband seized.)
• Thomas Edison, You’re Under Arrest ,September 10, 2010
  (In principle correct, except that, to set the record straight on that one, the real inventor of the light bulb was truly Sir Joseph Wilson Swan)

These stories about burning books to keep warm are not spoofs, either.

• Pensioners burn books for warmth | Metro.co.uk2.
• Why are they burning books in south Wales? | Money | The Guardian
• Shortcuts + Energy efficiency | From the Guardian | guardian.co.uk
• Fahrenheit 451 for Cash-Strapped UK Seniors - CNBC

By the way, it is not a good idea to use compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) in a bathroom.  Firstly they don’t last long where they are frequently switched on-and-off and, secondly, they are likely to experience early catastrophic failure in a moist environment.
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Related Story: Compact fluorescent lamps pose fire hazard?

All of which shows that trying not to become a criminal these days can put any law-abiding citizen into quite a quandary.

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