Socialism Creates a Black Market for Light Bulbs

You can hope for a better tomorrow, but from here the future
looks really fucked.

Socialism Gone Mad  -  Stalinist Central Planning has banned the evil light bulb and created a "Black Market"

• A Socialist loophole accidentally allows consumers to buy a product they want and need.
• ‘You cannot get a compact fluorescent or an LED that does what an incandescent does – it’s physically impossible. They don’t warm up as quickly, they glow a different colour, and they are ridiculously expensive.’
• Daring to make an Edison light bulb could cost you up to $70,000 in Socialist fines.

Shoppers fed up with feeble energy-saving light bulbs are getting round the EU ban on traditional bulbs by buying models meant for industrial use.
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The European ban on 40-watt bulbs is being phased in from this coming Saturday, September 1, following bans already imposed on 100W and 60W versions reports the UK Daily Mail.
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Illegal in Europe and America.
Socialists have banned Edison's light bulb
and forced consumers to use a more expensive
product loaded with deadly mercury.

But poor drafting of the EU directive banning the 40W bulb means that shops can continue to supply bulbs intended for ‘industrial use’ in factories.
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At least two British manufacturers are exploiting the loophole to mass-produce ‘rough-service’ bulbs, which look almost identical to and work in exactly the same way as traditional incandescent bulbs.
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The rough-service bulbs come in both screw and bayonet versions, and will cost around £1 – not much more than the household bulbs they will replace and half the price of energy-saving alternatives.
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They are not being sold by major supermarkets but will be available from specialist lighting and hardware shops and online retailers. ..
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The loophole has occurred because the EU directive banning 40W incandescent bulbs refers only to those intended for ‘household lamps’, meaning shops can continue selling those intended for ‘industrial use’. Manufacturers are allowed to make and sell the incandescent bulbs if they are described on the box as ‘rough-service lamps’ that are not for domestic use.
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Ian Fursland, managing director of The Lamp Company in Hertfordshire, said there were ‘bucketloads’ of rough-service lights being produced. ‘This stupid ban was not thought out at all, it is absolutely ridiculous,’ he said.
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‘We sell loads of them.'
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‘You cannot get a compact fluorescent or an LED that does what an incandescent does – it’s physically impossible. They don’t warm up as quickly, they glow a different colour, and they are ridiculously expensive.’
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(UK Daily Mail)


Light Bulbs vs. The Nanny State 
The European Union banned the sale of 100-watt incandescent light bulbs, with lawbreakers facing up to $70,000 in fines.
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The US light bulb ban was signed into law by a "small government" George W. Bush.