John Hood’s Daily Journal article for today reminds me that I also wrote about the light bulb coercion problem a few years ago, when it was still a nuisance looming on the horizon. Now that it’s here, we are bound to see even more reports that shed light on the stupidity of regulating sources of light that consumers can choose for personal use.

And by way of scooping both my and Hood’s pieces, it turns out that the lighting ‘problem’, and it’s proposed policy solution are nothing new. They predate both of our recent comments on the subject by a very long period of time.