Pic Of The Moment: Another Not-So-Bright Idea From The Dim-Bulb Trump Administration

[EarlG]

Consumers to pay a hefty price for Trump’s rollback of light bulb efficiency standards

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[Turbineguy]

1. Give these guys a break!

It's not easy coming up with stupid shit that their supporters are dumb enough to understand.

[Initech]

2. So they're going to destroy the environment and kill us all just to teach us a lesson? Great!

Nice knowing everybody!

[hibbing]

3. Every damn day

It just gets worse and worse. It will take decades for us to get these types of regulations and many others back in place. I'm glad I'm an old fart and won't live long enough to see a lot of the environmental destruction, selfish statement, but true.


Peace

[Cyrano]

4. A handful of greedy fools are screwing us. Again.

Stop believing the fiction that the majority rules in America. It's a lie and always has been.

Throughout most of American history, a minority has fucked everyone else for their own profit. Fortunately, during the periods when they weren't in control, we got Social Security, a minimum wage, Medicard, Medicaid, and so much more.

And that greedy minority is trying to turn back the clock on those earned benefits.

NOT "ENTITLEMENTS." EARNED BENEFITS.

Let's not allow them to fuck us again.

[not fooled]

5. It's Freedumb!!!

to pollute and screw up the planet with no limits, as long as you can exercise some sort of "freedom" to make stupid, unnecessary choices.

Having robbed many 'Muricans of a financially stable, prosperous life and the true freedom that such a life confers, the cons seek to substitute some deranged concept of "freedom"-to own any gun, use any amount of unnecessary consumable pollution source, etc. etc. etc. They are infantilizing the citizenry--nothing matters except that I get to do what I want (in a very limited sphere).

[PatSeg]

6. Because

we just can't destroy the world we live in fast enough! In a certain respect, these clowns are overachievers.

[angrychair]

7. This is hyperbole

Just like the car industry scaling back emission standards (they’re not). The light industry already has to much invested in LEDs to go backwards now.

The industry will push back. One thing a business wants more than anything else is stability.
They are not going to change on a dime because trump says so, just to go back when a Democrat gets elected in 2020.

This is ridiculous, just a sideshow distraction to wave a literally shiny object in front of their base on how they are “owning the libs”.

[Bengus81]

18. I agree,would a HVAC manufacturer reverse their heating and AC units back to 2007 levels and before?

I have a furnace that dates to 2003 or 2004. It's only about 80% as efficient as new ones. Going through all the R&D and work just like LED makers why would they go backwards?

This article is misleading,what it means is that LED bulbs were supposed to be made even more energy efficient by 2020 if I remember right and fat ass Trump has told the industry not to worry about it,he'll throw the law in the trash can.

Doesn't matter,bulb makers will continue on without Trump and do it on their own.

[The Mouth]

20. If they really save money (and they do)

then those very same market forces that the cons worship will make this a non-issue anyway.

[Maggiemayhem]

21. I totally agree. Who the hell wants to use an incandescent?

You can even buy LEDS at Dollar Tree.

[TwilightZone]

8. Sounds like the Trump standard. Whatever the worst possible choice is for any given...

situation, that's the one he pursues. Fill positions with the least-qualified people and have them make the worst possible decisions. Mission accomplished!

Well, that and doing the opposite of whatever Obama did.

[TheBlackAdder]

9. Let the dumbass MAGAts use them. I enjoy saving $25/mo on my electric bill.

[louis-t]

12. I had a projection tv from 2006. It died last year.

Replaced with a modern flat screen, similar size. My electric bill went down 15 %.

[TheBlackAdder]

13. I replaced my Dell Dimension with an HP Z2 Mini, wattage went from 350 to 60. The room is silent now

[jayschool2013]

10. What middle-class American hasn't asked

What middle-class American hasn't asked himself, herself or themself:

"Why do I pay so much for my chandelier bulbs? And is there any way I can pay more?"

Now we know why, thanks to stable geniuses like Trump and Perry:

It's them damn job-killing regulations.

FREEDUMB!!!!

[Gothmog]

11. K&R

[ffr]

14. In releated news, the KGOP demands Ford bring back the Model-T

[yuiyoshida]

15. BLEH

Republicans...

[NCjack]

16. More business for Kock Bros coal burning power plants. nt

[47of74]

17. If I could I'd leave and never return.

Don’t gaslight me for saying that either. I’m done playing the role of obedient victim for this country.

[dixiegrrrrl]

26. You are SO not alone.

This country is gonna be like those small dying towns that have tumbleweed rolling down the dusty streets, with rows of boarded up businesses. The rich will be living in pristine gated counties, while the rest of us toil for soup and bread.
I can think of a 100 dystopian novels that describe this, and none of them seem farfetched.

One thing that is rarely answered tho....how can you stay rich when the Golden Goose is dead?

[Roadside Attraction]

19. I suspect . . .

I suspect the light bulb manufacturers will ignore these fools and continue to produce LED and CFL bulbs. Ditto for automobile makers -- just keep on making more and more efficient cars.

Before Trump I never imagined it was possible for one group of people to be so goddam stupid.

[apkhgp]

22. It is really hard

to get any stupider than these people.

[czarjak]

23. Rolling back W's only decent idea....

Brilliant!

[oasis]

24. New dimensions in stupidity. nt

[The Wizard]

25. Why would any Republican

want cleaner air and water and lower energy costs? It cuts into the bribes from the fossil fuel lobby. And the unwitting dupes drool in approval as long as Republicans promise to "keep the coloreds in their place."