‘Republicans Bungle the Battle Over Light Bulbs’

“As Bloomberg points out, bulb makers such as Royal Philips Electronics and General Electric have already worked to make bulbs more efficient. In fact, like any other corporate endeavor in the known universe, they're in favor of greater efficiency. They also see the benefit to giving the Energy Department the ability to enforce efficiency standards, as it would prevent lesser foreign products from negatively impacting the business.”

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/republicans-bungle-battle-over-light-bulbs-161211513.html?l=1

(Pay no attention to anything in that paragraph, save this: “They also see the benefit to giving the Energy Department the ability to enforce efficiency standards …” Why? Because the big companies want regulation that will drive others out of competition. Didn’t the big bulb companies pitch the not-incandescent bulb to begin with?

(It’s such a small thing, right? Why would anybody protest using an energy-saving device? Because the choice should be mine, not the government’s. That is the thing most Progressives do not understand, perhaps cannot understand.)

(And another thing: Why is it that the bulb announcing “Five-year life” goes out after a year? Maybe that’s the way the Energy Department enforces efficiency standards.)