Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007

Government’s dim bulbs at work

Is there any better sign of government overreach than a law banning the light bulb? Robert Bryce devotes a National Review Online column to changes slated to take effect Jan.…

The Federal Renewable Fuel Standard: A Bad Policy With Perverse Results

Murdock notes the latest EPA silliness

The Supreme Court recently taught us that the federal government can tax us for not buying private health insurance. Now Deroy Murdock tells us the Environmental Protection Agency wants to…

Goodnight lightbulb

HR 6 Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 systematically bans incandescent light bulbs beginning in 2012.  Some claim it’s not really a ban, but it is. There have been…

Time to see the light

The latest Bloomberg Businessweek details some state’s efforts to bypass the provisions of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act — otherwise known as the crazy legislation that bans incandescent…

Will Texas challenge federal overreach?

As almost everyone now knows, federal law will ban production of incandescent light bulbs in a few years. (I forget just when it takes effect.) But as Edward Cline notes…

So much for bright ideas

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…

The federal lightbulb law

Ed Feulner lambastes the federal statute that bans the good old lightbulb in favor of more “environmentally friendly” ones in this Townhall column. The GOP ought to make repeal of…

Chesser on N&O on stupid and destructive light bulb regs

Paul Chesser has a very good post on the Spectator Blog regarding an N&O headline describing the closing of the GE’s last incandescent light bulb plant and the laying off…

Glenn Beck breaks a CFL light bulb LIVE

US, UN nabobs confused over biofuels’ impact on food prices

A topic that has been discussed here often (one example) is now being talked to death at the United Nations, per the Associated Press: The merits of increasing biofuel production…

The death of a thousand cuts

That’s how liberty dies under unrestrained democracy. The latest cut is the federal law that bans the old-fashioned incandescent light bulb in favor of more “earth-friendly” alternatives. Today’s Wall Street…