re: #411 lawhawk

I don’t quite get the “political statement” part? The willingness to pay more for lighting- electric consumption? That’s a political statement? It’s a bottom line statement of fiscal responsibility.

Yeah, libertarians/conservatives don’t like the idea of the government telling them what to do. They complain that the market should take care of this.

The market is already doing this - the law just hastened the arrival, and it benefits everyone. Lower power costs, utilities don’t have to build new power plants, the emissions are reduced, and lower pollution, plus property owners don’t have to constantly replace light bulbs, especially in hard to reach places.

But math is hard….

This is the “We’re not conservative, we’re independent” crew I often bitch about. They literally see this as “Hurr durr, Obama is forcing us to buy CFLs, we’ll show him.”

These people also refused to get their kids inoculated against H1N1 a few years ago, because they just “knew” that the government was wrong about the potential for pandemic. That’s the mindset you’re dealing with here.