Need to bring back incandescent light bulbs

Repeal law against incandescent light bulbs, if there is one, and bring them back for everyone to use. The new bulbs are too bright and bad for your eyes.

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And too expensive

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Agreed. The lightbulb marketplace should be driven by supply and demand forces…not by communist green climate lies pretending that the earth will explode if we dont pay a carbon tax to Hillary Clinton every three minutes.

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I agree with bringing back incandescent bulbs. Studies show LED damage the retina and it disrupts sleep patterns

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I use incondescent bulbs as they are a healthier way of lighting.

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Sometimes you need a bulb that gets warm, ie chicken coops in winter, pump houses in winter, and things like salt lamps. They don’t work right without heat

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They didn’t outright ban them, but they made most stores stop carrying them. So it’s almost a ban. You have to search them out and probably pay a lot more for them than we used to.

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Funny you should mention the positives about bulb heat, Dee – I actually flip/flop back and forth between bulbs seasonally. I will put in the standard bulbs in my lights/lamps when the colder days settle in, which helps to warm my living spaces in the winter time, taking some of the work load off of my heating systems. I switch them back to LED during the warmer periods to get the light and savings without the additional heat (esp. upstairs). So for me, I want BOTH of them available for purchase. I don’t need govt or greenies telling me that I have to give up my current choice of alternate lighting based on “thermal convenience” or “wattage costs”. They try to make it look like the heat from incandescent bulbs represent wasted energy and inefficiency when in fact, turning on and off lights and lamps at various places in my home all throughout the colder days actually spreads the heat out over a large area in multiple rooms, making it extremely efficient when keeping a large area heated over a long winter’s time frame. Nevertheless, they don’t live in our homes, or pay our bills – we do.

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LEDs are also lifeless, flat light. Especially in overhead lighting. They replaced the incandescents in my church with cool white LEDs and it looks like a convenience store now. Almost every oncoming car with LED headlights look like brights.

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Did that study state the temperature range of the light? Was it just the blue night, or was it the warm as well?

The hidden dangers of LEDs – and the healthiest type of home lighting | Conscious Spaces This is one site with info

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Not to mention the impact on birds and wildlife, including migratory birds. The LED lights are horrible visually and otherwise.

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Very unhealthy in other ways, too! Source: “Electrical Forensics” and “Toxic Electricity” by Steven Magee.

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I sure would like to know where. In Oregon you cannot find them period

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Not to mention it affects our pineal gland
Godless light no life

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I believe they can make incandescent bulbs to last a long time but they just chose over time to shorten their life to make more money.

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About a year and a half ago, I found Incandescents on-line (sorry, can’t remember where - I just searched) and bought about 20 of them to keep on hand.

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Quite true Rogena! G.E. Lighting and other former onshore lamp plants have experimented years ago with designing tungsten lamp filaments to ‘burn out’ after a designated ‘hot hours’ operating time. They had it down to a science. This was meant to keep you coming back for more bulbs and keep the industry demand level high. There are antique bulbs that were created during the beginning of the last century that still light up, believe it or not. Lamp plants (actually they are mostly overseas since the early1990s) could easily these remove purposely-placed impurities from the tugsten filament coils and extend the life span of incandescent bulbs (if they wanted to). :bulb:

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Always beware of “Studies show” and “it’s common sense” and the like when policies are afoot. But I agree, consumers should have a choice, not have it made for them.

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