Recent rant in North Carolina. Note sparse crowd of dead-enders.
They’re still incensed about more efficient bulbs.
The Trump administration is rolling back requirements for new, energy-efficient lightbulbs. The Energy Department announced the move on Wednesday, withdrawing standards that were to be put in place to make commonly used bulbs more efficient.
The new standards were included in energy legislation implemented under President George W. Bush and finalized under the Obama administration. They were set to go into effect in January 2020 and gradually phase out incandescent and halogen bulbs. This includes the everyday pear-shaped bulbs as well as bulbs used for items such as bathroom vanities, recessed lighting and candle-shape lights, to be replaced with energy-efficient, LED versions, which are illuminated by light-emitting diodes.
In its announcement of the rollback, the Energy Department says the new lightbulb standards were established in 2017 “in a manner that is not consistent with the best reading of the statute.”
Last March, NPR’s Jeff Brady reported, “Thanks to a 2007 law signed by President George W. Bush, shelves these days are largely stocked with LED bulbs that look more like the traditional pear-shape incandescent version but use just one-fifth the energy. A second wave of lightbulb changes was set to happen. But now the Trump administration wants to undo an Obama-era regulation designed to make a wide array of specialty lightbulbs more energy-efficient.”
In other news, The Trump administration proposed new supports for Typewriters, 8 Track tape players, and Beta max video cassettes.In other news, The Trump administration proposed new supports for Typewriters, 8 Track tape players, and Beta max video cassettes.In other news, The Trump administration proposed new supports for Typewriters, 8 Track tape players, and Beta max video cassettes.
The sheer stupidity of this administration leaves one breathless.
Yeah Trump is definitely in the pocket of Big 8 Track. I suspect support for stone tablets to come back any day now.
Trump is addressing incandescent vs Compact fluorescent bulbs which have a mercury problem. He does not even seem to know that the bulb of choice is now the LED which does not have that problem. Maybe he could understand better the reduced costs of bulb changing and power usage at Trump tower. This might be an even bigger expense once ICE deports his bulb changers.
Trump gets an even lovelier orange glow under incandescents.
It is ‘comic book villainy’. I thought the same thing with the fairly recent rollbacks on species protections:
https://climatecrocks.com/2019/08/16/trump-moves-to-gut-endangered-species-act/
If we were a couple of decades earlier, Trump would reverse the leaded gasoline ban (1996). Who knows, maybe he still will. Whale oil might be after that.
I moved into a new home (for me, though it’s 100 years old) about five years ago, and one of the first things I did was make sure every bulb in the house was LED. I’ve changed one light in all that time. And shockingly, I could buy ‘warm white’ LED light bulbs even five years ago, which I’m not vain, but I look pretty good under.
Trump recently mocked the Fed for not lowering interest rates. It’s at 2.5%, historically still very low. Lowering it, though, would give a temporary boost to the stock market, making Trump look good. Of course, it also screws the working classes:
https://fortune.com/2019/05/02/fed-interest-rates-income-inequality/
As well as make us ever weaker towards mitigating the next recession/depression.
Local coverage of the rally:
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article234793052.html
Lindsey Graham was there.
New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/us/politics/trump-voters-supporters-policies.html
Interesting:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/william-happer-resign-trump-administration_n_5d790e1ce4b06028fd3523d2
Well. Trump buildings face millions in climate fines under new New York rules
“We Are Striking to Disrupt the System”: An Hour with 16-Year-Old Climate Activist Greta Thunberg
Climate activist Greta Thunberg on why being on the spectrum is her “superpower”
“I was kind of a troublemaker”: How Greta Thunberg became a climate activist
Note on the video: The closed captioning ([CC]) is actually edited, so you can turn it on and mute the video. His words are bad enough, I don’t want to hear his voice.