Will there be a lot of "global warming contraband" in the near future? Of what products?

Question

Here's one example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banning_of_incandescent_lightbulbs

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59298

Answer 1

It’s a sad day in history when Edison’s invention has been banned, not just replaced, but banned to save the planet. The light bulb will go on the black market.

If I were president I would rip up this 822 page document, pour lighter fluid on it, and light it on fire for all TV cameras to see. Then I would drive the incandescent light bulb up Pennsylvania Ave in a Hummer that would be belching out massive amounts CO2.

Answer 2

To the looks of it. Yes. And its around the world too. Lets start using Compact Florescent Lightbulbs (CFL) instead of regular bulbs.

Answer 3

polluting, non recyclabe products. and those which are assemled in a way that is hard to recycle like the juice packs which contain plastic, aluminum and sometimes paper.

Answer 4

Yes - probably of GW skeptics...

They will be quite rare yet their dogmatic inability to recognise reality will be seen both as funny and dangerous...

very much like court jesters in medieval times.

I can see a time when governments will ban the skeptics because they could pose a threat to innocent minds (say 4-year old or less) yet adults find their ideas 'quaint', 'funny', 'outrageous' and generally so exotic that they are brought along to secret parties held in dark cellar-bars where they amuse the crowd for an hour or so before they become too repetitious and boring and are taken back to their locked and darkened rooms where the light of knowledge cannot reach them...

Answer 5

yes there will.

but it'll be a very small percentage of the total usage.

and thus won't significantly hurt.

there will be people who stock up, and sell them.

however, considering they're fairly fragile, it's my guess more will be lost to breakage than actually used.

Answer 6

Yes, the way for 'green' products to become compeditive is to for the the competition to be made illegal.  Naturally the only way to buy and sell banned products is on the black market.  

It's a good way for left wing politicians to get funding is from manufacturers of green products.  They used to get most of their funding from the union movement, but as union membership is constantly shrinking, they are looking for new sources of funding.

Answer 7

I'd like to buy a big pile of coal, so that Ican be assured of heating my home, after fossil fuels are taxed (or worse, cap& traded) to where only wealthy people and government employees can afford to have heat and power.

     Permits are being denied, all over the U.S., for coal fired power plants. instead, natural gas plants are built, and coal is exported to foreign countries, where cheap electricity becomes another reason our business's can't compete.   "alternative energy" is expensive energy.  The cost's won't become apparent until govt subsidies cease, and it'll be too late to avoid them - the equipment will be bought and installed, it'll take years to build new power plants which use a fuel we have a lot of -coal.

Answer 8

Socialism ALWAYS creates shortages of needed goods and services, that's why black markets flourish.  Just look at the Russian Mafia.  I'm hoarding the good bulbs (and oil burning lamps) in anticipation.  

Figure they're going to legally ban any legit competitor to a green product, because green products are inferior in every aspect but environmental impact (and sometimes, they're worse in this regard as well).  Examples would be:  Plastic grocery bags, deodorant, insecticides, paints, cleansers...basically we're all going to be forced onto the black market if we don't want to live the neo-hippie lifestyle.

Answer 9

what I find interesting about this law, is the fact it bans bulbs on the amount of light they put out(310 lumen's by 2014) not just on the number of watts they consume. a 5 watt bulb(instead of a 100 watt)  that produced 312 lumen's will still be illegal.

it prevents research in a more efficient type of bulb.

I'm sure this has nothing to do with the $300,000 + donations Phillips electronics made to the 2006 congressional election campaigns.

its merely coincidence that Phillips invented the curly cf type of bulb that everybody will be required by law to buy in 2014.

Answer 10

History, geography and science books will be banned obviously.  I'm sure there will be stiff fines for reading them.

Answer 11

fossile fules

Answer 12

I know I'll be stocking up on thousands of these bulbs before then.

What I don't use I'll be selling on the black market for $1 per watt.