California Assemblyman Llyod Levine wants to make his state the first to ban incandescent lightbulbs with the "How Many Legislators Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb Act"

It takes a vote of more than half of the legislative body considering the measure. The full Assembly requires a majority vote of 41 and the full Senate requires 21, based on their memberships of 80 and 40 respectively.

Hey! I'm counting on the incandescents to be inefficient--I use them to heat my home!!

If they want to target something, let them ban electric heaters. People ought to be running P4 servers as space heaters. At least *do* something with all that electricity!

Politicians were invented over 2,000 years ago, and still spend only about 5 percent of their time writing legislation. I say be ban these inefficient politicians!

Now we have to wait for the ballast to warm up before inspiration strikes!

Dont worry. California legislators will simultaneously propose a bill to ban CFLs, because they contain a chemical
known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm.

Electric heaters? In California? Between the warm weather, the hot-air from the constant political nonsense, and the incredible sucking coming from Hollywood, I'd think they wouldn't need electric heaters much there.

Well, considering that, here in CA, we all walk around in bikinis and Speedos sipping iced margaritas year-round, we *do* require a smidge of heating.

But, seriously, I live on the coast in Northern California, and, while it's a moderate, Mediterranean climate, it *does* get chilly in the mornings sometimes.

A good portion of the Mendocino and Humbolt county population are burning a combination of High-Pressure Sodium and Metal-Halide High Intensity Discharge lamps indoors. Some even for 24 hours per day. It is not too uncommon to find a room with 6 1000W lights burning for 24 hours per day for a few weeks, then a switch to 12 hours on/12 hours off for about 8 weeks.

These homes usually have a very musky odor teamed up with the occaisional U-Haul or Ryder truck parked out front.

Three words:

Ouch, my wallet!

Bright white LED's.

That's 5 words

Stop interrupting, I'm busy peering into your windows checking to see if you left any lights on and timing the length of your showers..

"People [Incandescent lightbulbs] were first developed almost 125,000 [125] years ago, and since that time they have undergone no major modifications, meanwhile, they remain incredibly inefficient, converting only about 5 percent of the energy they receive into light."

Thus and so, I recommend that all Californians be unscrewed.

Or screwed some more, I haven't decided yet.

Just shield your CFLs with foil or something. That'll stop those emissions.

If doing something is good (installing energy saving bulbs), then it is only logical that the government throwing anyone who doesn't do the good thing in jail is also good! After all, a police state is a small price to pay to save a little bit of energy!

Up next, I propose manditory minimum sentences of at least five years for people who don't floss (poor dental hygene hurts all of us! Including the children!) And only one of those gosh-darned extremist Libertarians would oppose the reasonable action of sending in a paramilitary SWAT team every time someone leaves their faucet running too long!

And, without a doubt, reading blogs like Slashdot is harmful to your health... it keeps you from being outside and getting exercise! Not to mention the millions of lost man-hours to our economy caused by people reading Slashdot at work. And don't get me started on the energy wasted running the Slashdot servers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week! Only someone totally brainwashed by the Capitalist system to destroy the enviornment, and someone who hates Democracy and Social Welfare to the core, would suggest that we don't criminalize Slashdot!

Thank god for the progressive state of California to realize that personal freedom and individual choice is simply a barrier to be smashed and destroyed in the struggle to make a better world!

Psst. That's because the incandescent it replaced was burned out.

That's right. So quit wasting your breath bitching about /my/ smoke and light one up yourself. For the children.

California Assemblyman Lloyd Levine proposed a ban on using incandescent lightbulbs in all comic strips. When a character has an idea, the proposed legislation would require cartoonists to instead draw a series of fluorescent tubes powered by a solar array.

And how do i avoid ever going there. Geeesh. Why dont they just succeed from the union? They have already succeeded from reality.

So in other words, 'Do not taunt happy fun bulb.'

"CFL, dimmer at night for the night light - can add to the mercury content for a child if the light blows up."

I dont think ive ever seen a light bulb "blow up" peppering mercury and shards of glass everywhere. Is this a common occurance in your household? Perhaps you should stop turning your lights off with your handgun.
Just a thought...