Lightbulbs – Pro-choice or No-choice?
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Editorial opinion by Liberty Fairbanks.
How light bulbs are going to make you thirsty.
In 2007, President G.W. Bush signed a law that will outlaw incandescent light bulbs. When the law goes into effect, within just a few years, a percentage of groundwater across America will be more poisoned by mercury than it already is. When those new mercury lightbulbs wear out or break, people are just going to throw them in the trash. From there, they get lugged away to a landfill, where the mercury will seep into the aquifer.
Robber barons from the energy industry understand all too well; oil and gasoline are not essential to life. Neither is gold. Water is.
As water resources are poisoned by the mercury from lightbulbs as a result of the law signed by Bush, and there is no more clean drinking water anywhere in America, expect G.W. Bush to hoard potable water from his 99,000 acre aquifer in Paraguay until the price is right. If you don’t buy the water from Bush, you might buy it from another Texan, T.Bone Pickens, who has bought up all the land which contains a large aquifer. Currently, large amounts of drinking water are being exported to China rather than being kept for Americans.
Anyone who has an IQ above 100, should recognize that when we talk about light bulbs, there is a much larger issue involved. The problem is, most people know government is going to do whatever the heck government wants to do, so they prefer to not think of the bigger picture, leaving it up to government, even if the ramifications are only several years into the future. So, for those people, we’re relegated to talking about the light bulb issue as if it is only going to be a daily inconvenience that will invade their life, as a limitation to their choices as consumers.
Even if the big picture does not get you so darn ticked off at government, as you should be, that you want to erect gallows in Crawford, and on the lawn of the Capitol and the White House, as a warning that you will not take these bad laws sitting down, does the smaller picture of removal of your choice of lightbulbs upset you enough that you might, at least, complain to your legislator? Do you think the government should be removing your choice, as a consumer, to purchase incandescent light bulbs?
admin @ March 31, 2011
