Make my mind, enviro-nuts!

Guess we can't call it global warming anymore. Love how the Global Warming crowd calls it "climate change."

Recently, Congress banned, yes banned, the great incandescent light bulb because it uses more energy than the squiggly CFL bulbs that all the greenies are putting in their houses. Who the hell are these bastards to tell me what kind of lightbulb I have to use! Where does it say in the U.S. Constitution that they can ban lightbulbs and force me to buy a more expensive and dangerous alternative? What happened to choice? According to American liberals, that only applies to that nonviable tissue mass that they don't even like to call a child, not lightbulbs.

Of course, Congress doesn't tell you that these bulbs cost $3 vs. 50 cents apiece for the conventional bulbs. And the CFL (compact flourescents) have dangerous levels of mercury and can not just be thrown in the waste basket.

In addition to raising auto fuel efficiency standards 40 percent, an energy bill passed by Congress yesterday bans the incandescent light bulb by 2014.

President Bush signed the 822-page measure into law today after it was sent up Pennsylvania Avenue in a Toyota Prius hybrid vehicle. The House passed the bill by a 314-100 vote after approval by the Senate last week.

Read it here.

The EPA says breakage of the energy-saving, mercury-containing CFLs can cause health hazards, especially for children and pregnant women, suggesting use of the bulbs over carpeted areas should be avoided. If bulbs break over carpeted areas, the cleanup may require cutting out pieces of the carpet to avoid toxic exposures.

Read the rest here. It's unbelievable what tyranny is foisted on us under the guise of good intentions. But I'd imagine these companies that make these uber-expensive lightbulbs lobbied very heavily to get this passed. It's like getting rid of Toyota and Chevy and making everyone buy Mercedes Benz.

I don't have a problem with people going green. But why should I have to be forced into doing so and at a cost I'm not willing to pay? As if things are not expensive enough already. I noticed that this green revolution has a serious cost. At the grocery store managed by my aunt in a very chic part of our area, they had some recycled and "Earth-friendly" products on a display and the prices were OUTRAGEOUS. It's genius, really. Quadruple the price, put a green label on it and away you go to assuage the guilt of some rich person who drives an SUV and has a big house.

Where did this huge enviro-nazi movement come from? It has really blindsided me.

I don't remember this sort of concern, except from the usual suspect nuts at the Sierra Club and Greenpeace, back in the 90's. Why did this become all the rage? This isn't the 60's, folks. The Cuyahoga River isn't catching on fire. Tailpipe emissions from cars now are nearly zero from the 50's and 60's. Even coal plants are burning cleaner.

But yet these folks want to raise gas prices even more with more taxes. They have now forced you to use $3 light bulbs that are dim and if they break, can pose a much bigger environmental hazard than any extra energy used by the conventional incandescent. They support the Kyoto Treaty, even though its provisions would allow the Third World to get away scot-free and have our economy get ruined over something that is not happening at all.

When does it all end? When do we stand up to these enviro-socialists, America-haters and busy-bodies and say enough, already?