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Sir, the candle is in full compliance with the new Cap and Trade law
prohibiting bright light bulbs, but the water bottles are a felony. Please come
with us. (Photo/Live Pine)
And you thought Cap and Trade was just an energy tax. Nope, there are lots of hidden goodies to ensure that you are broke and properly restrained from enjoying your freedom. Clyde went through some of the bill and found some gems, but Pundit and Pundette have a few more via And So It Goes In Shreveport.
And how will this bill affect you? It has regulations on every single aspect of your daily life. There are light bulb restrictions (no more than 60 watts in your candelabra); in fact there's a whole section that deals with lamps. If you decide to build a new home, it must meet new and specific energy requirements. If you decide to sell your existing home, a federal inspector must inspect your home, determine it's energy rating, and if your home is found to be unacceptable then you must retrofit and make changes before you will be able to sell.
There's an entire section on planting trees including guidelines on "scientific based measurements outlining the species and minimum distance required between trees planted...in addition to the minimum required distance to be maintained between such trees and building foundations, air conditioning units, driveways and walkways...". Do we really need the federal government telling us where we can plant trees?
There's a section dealing with outdoor lighting in which you are given instructions about landscape lights, lights in your swimming pool, lights on artwork and other architectural lighting. The federal government is going to tell you what wattage that light can be and how many you can have. In some cases the lights must be capable of producing two different light levels (100 and 60 watt).
This is madness. Just for starters, where is the Constitutional Authority for the Federal Government to regulate distances between trees you plant, for telling you the wattage of bulbs illuminating your artwork, and for ordering you to scrap your wood stove if it does not meet some arbitrary emission regulation. It literally sounds like they want us living in the cold and dark.
If this bill is not killed in the Senate, we stand to lose freedom in countless, conspicuous ways. These people are monsters.
Comments
Get real -- There's no way you're ever gonna have a house, swimming pool or plant trees.
A climate bill is going to pass one of these days (or years) whether you rant and rave or not. Evidence will continue to pile up that it's absolutely needed and there are intelligent, scientifically minded people on its side. You can keep your head in the sand.
Who wants to put 60-watt bulbs in a candalabra?
You should use a 40-watt bulb or less anyway.
This will hardly affect bulbs used in mansions, castles or grand hotels. So what's your point?
Denise and Samantha,
Are you really indifferent to the government holding this kind of power over your lives? Do you even understand why many consider that a red flag? I'll give you a hint...It has nothing to do with light, trees or houses.
Is this the direction we are headed? I am starting to suspect that a pure democracy is, in fact, unsustainable. There are just too many followers without the mental ability to understand where they are going.
Breaking News: Manufacturing & Technology eJournal Poll Shows Clean Energy Act Could Force Nearly 20 Percent of Manufacturers to Close
The cap-and-trade based system, pushed by the Obama administration and passed by the U.S. House, could cause energy costs to skyrocket and fuel more unemployment
Read full report at mfrtech dot com
Can you imagine anyone having more freedom than the bozo writing this article?
We are not going to rant and rave. We are going to stop spending money in the USA. Move jobs to other countries.
People with money do not care about this, it does not affect them.
Your life will suck and you will not save the planet.
In the near future you will forget about global warming and will belive in the next scam that comes around.
Here is the formula.
People you don't like. Something they do that you can't. Make up something to justify stealing from them.
It would not be that hard to swing americans to believe that global warming is cause by imorality. The only way to stop it is to lock up all the immoral people. Wait 500 years to see if it works.
Your elected officials will decide what is immoral.
If it's not killed in Senate "We the People" will kill it ourselves.
@ bucky. unfortunately we the people will not. most of us are lazy and will take whatever is handed to us. most of us are sheep and can't fight something if it is presented in the right way. most of us are ignorant and don't understand why this is a big deal. and some of us are hateful and think it is a splendid idea.
mark my words this and many more oppressions will be coming our way in the future and very few of us will have the courage to point it out.
When will the government stay out of our lives? The patriot act destroyed any privacy we might have had previously, as did the wiretapping program. And now we have this asinine bill regulating light bulbs? GOOD LORD. What's next, some bill saying you can't abort babies, or smoke certain plants, or curse on television?
In summation, the government has been screwing with our lives for a long time, and it's silly that only recently have people started getting really ticked off.
@Samantha
@Denise
AKA same person.
If I am not willing to trade personal freedoms for an economically ludicrous bill then I must not be intelligent? It has nothing to do with the environment and everything to do with personal freedoms. It is a government run Robin Hood scheme.
To Denise:
I will support the regulation over how you use your uterus. We don't want morons propagating..that's how we got into this mess in the first place.
Amen. Uncontrollable monsters that are going to control everything we do.
This article is factually incorrect. Read the bill yourselves, none of the assertions made here are accurate.
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