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$60 Light Bulb Debuts On Earth Day

Posted by Soulskill on from the just-imagine-the-line-outside-the-stores dept.

theodp writes "How much would you pay for an amazing light bulb? On Sunday — Earth Day — Philips' $60 LED light bulb goes on sale at Home Depot and other outlets. The bulb, which lasts 20 years, won a $10 million DOE contest that stipulated the winning bulb should cost consumers $22 in its first year on the market. Ed Crawford, the head of Philips' U.S. lighting division, said it was always part of the plan to have utility rebates bring the price down to the $22 range."

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  1. ANOTHER FREE MARKET TRIUMPH! by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 0, Troll

    God Bless America, and All Who Sail on Her!

    I'd buy one of these, but I'm saving up to pay my CARBON TAXES!

    --
    "Flyin' in just a sweet place,
    Never been known to fail..."
    1. Re:ANOTHER FREE MARKET TRIUMPH! by Myopic · · Score: 0, Troll

      I want free markets for my economy like I was a leprechaun for my President -- which is to say, even if one existed, which it doesn't, I still wouldn't want it.

      Markets are good; free markets are bad, or would be if they were real.

    2. Re:ANOTHER FREE MARKET TRIUMPH! by tmosley · · Score: 0, Troll

      Boy, your UID is very appropriate.

      The free market built your country from a feudalistic shit-covered landmass into a middle class paradise. Now, the mixed market (rapidly sliding toward centralized control economy) is falling apart, and the middle class that was built by the free markets of your great grandparents is at Death's door.

    3. Re:ANOTHER FREE MARKET TRIUMPH! by JesseMcDonald · · Score: 0, Troll

      "ZERO market regulations!? Who would want that?!" An incredibly tiny minority of industrialists would want that, tmosley.

      Plus anyone interested in "liberty and justice for all". Last I checked, most Americans take a pledge to uphold those principles. Liberty implies a free (as in libre) market, the freedom to exercise your property rights without third-party interference, without which you have no meaningful liberty. Justice includes the protection of property rights, punishment for the use of force or threats or fraud—regardless of the source.

      This country was founded on principles which inevitably lead to a free market. You can't argue against a free market without abandoning those principles.

      --
      "The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else." - Bastiat
  2. Re:To be banned in 2020 by mattack2 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Your hypothesis is ridiculous, because while there are now rules in place regulating the efficiency of most light bulbs (which ignoramuses incorrectly describe as "banning the incandescent bulb"), nobody has come and taken away your existing wasteful incandescent bulbs.

    Plus, just like there will hopefully be better solar technology in the future, that doesn't mean it isn't good to get it now.

    (BTW, I drive a gas powered car, but my next car will at worst be a Prius, hopefully a fully electric car.)

  3. Feel free by publiclurker · · Score: 0, Troll

    to move to Somalia then. Of course your self-important delusions of adequacy would probably get you killed in less than a day when you try to use your liberty screw over others without society covering your back.