Despite Advocates Of Lightbulb Freedumb (think Bachmann) US Household Energy Use Still Falling

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Remember “Crazy eyes” Michelle Bachmann, the one-time Presidential candidate and whackadoodle Rep from Minnesota? One of Bachmann’s signature issues was “save our lightbulbs” – the cockeyed crusade against regulations aimed at improving lighting technology and energy efficiency. The real motivation, of course, was not to save light bulbs, but to save market demand for the dying coal industry that funds Republican campaigns, then and now.

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After climbing for decades, electricity use by American households has declined over the past eight years. “That’s a staggering change,” said Lucas Davis, an energy economist at the Haas School of Business, part of the University of California, Berkeley.

The economic recession in the late 2000s contributed to an initial dip in electricity demand, but as the economy improved, lighting and other energy-efficiency improvements continued to drive down household electricity use.

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https://climatecrocks.com/2019/03/10/despite-troglodyte-light-bulb-freaks-efficiency-and-reason-winning-out/

[mbusby]

1. LED....

...is where it's at. Except for a couple of compact fluorescent, the remaining are LED. The GE LED bulbs are what we use. They provide the least interference with over-the-air TV of other brands we have tried.

[MyOwnPeace]

2. Oh, the irony................

having dim-bulb Michelle Bachmann talking about lightbulbs!