re: #87 Killgore Trout

Get ready to start hoarding light bulbs…..
White House announces new lighting standards

It’s yet another unfunded mandate to demand that businesses spend money on items that may or may not produce the kind of savings intended, and which could potentially cause more environmental harm than if the businesses chose to upgrade their facilities when those new technologies came of age (I’m thinking LED lighting, and not CFL). As it is, most businesses use CFL or standard fluorescent lighting in business settings.

The fact is that lighting makes up a small component of energy usage in the country. The vast majority is for HVAC, and better insulation would go a lot further, and would save more money to more people over time than mandating which light bulbs should be used.

And I say that as a CFL user who switched all the bulbs in my house to CFL when I first moved in.

Most homes, particularly those built before the 1970s are severely underinsulated, and even adding R30 insulation to the attic will make a substantial difference in just one year’s time.