Fun with Cap and Trade: No more than 60 watts in your candelabra

July 1, 11:04 PMDC Republican ExaminerBill Dupray

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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.