From: "Rich Gauszka" 

I've switched from incandescent but Mark Muarry is full of it when he
states that "We're not telling consumers what to do, we're ending a
technology that's obsolete.".   I wonder if California will have light
bulb inspectors
and an inspection tax?

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070201/NATION/702010345/102
2/POLITICS

The common light bulb may be headed the way of penny candy, dime stores and
eight-track rock 'n' roll tapes -- extinct.

More than 100 years after Thomas Edison perfected the incandescent light
bulb, two California lawmakers are pushing to make California the first
state to ban it.

Democratic Assemblyman Lloyd Levine said he wants to phase out the
incandescent bulb in favor of the more energy-efficient compact fluorescent
bulb.

"They're cheaper for the consumer, they save the state money and
they're better for the environment," Levine said of the
energy-efficient bulbs.

Republican State Sen. George Runner, however, said banning incandescent
bulbs amounts to lawmakers dictating how people should live their lives.

Levine's proposal would ban the sale of incandescent bulbs by 2012.
Democratic Assemblyman Jared Huffman's bill would ban the bulbs by 2018.

Unlike the bulbous-shaped traditional household light, compact fluorescent
models look like squiggly swirls of light.

Mark Murray, executive director of Californians Against Waste, said:
"We're not telling consumers what to do, we're ending a technology
that's obsolete." His group is sponsoring Huffman's bill.

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