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Which is ludicrous, because none of those actually made the products worse. To go into one I'm really familiar with: light bulbs are fine after banning incande

by caslon 6y ago

Which is ludicrous, because none of those actually made the products worse. To go into one I'm really familiar with: light bulbs are fine after banning incandescent bulbs. LED bulbs (which were still available at time of the regulations) are better than incandescent bulbs in nearly every way, as long as you don't cheap out and go for one that flickers at under the rate of an incandescent. The problem is poor consumer education, not government regulations.

mhb 6y ago
Instead of cherry picking one which might arguably, after many years of development, have turned out all right, why not explain how great low flush toilets are? In part 2, say why toilet size regulations are a better way of addressing water or energy concerns than a more direct method.
- caslon 6y ago
  I went to the one I'm most familiar with. Also, it was fine even when the regulations happened. It's not cherry-picking, it's choosing to speak on the one I'm most qualified to speak on. I live in an area of the country way too low-income to have dealt with most of those problems. But out of the problems listed, I know multiple of them to be outright lies, and since the author was fine about lying about the few I know for sure, it doesn't seem unlikely that the others are also lies.
gruez 6y ago
>LED bulbs (which were still available at time of the regulations) LED bulbs were readily available at the time? My memory might be fuzzy, but the phase out started in 2012[1], and the lighting section at the hardware store was a sea of CFLs. [1] In December 2007, the federal government enacted the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA), [...] The law was to effectively ban most incandescent light bulbs, starting in January 2012. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_incandescent_light_bulbs#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_incandescent_ligh...

by caslon 6y ago

mhb 6y ago

Instead of cherry picking one which might arguably, after many years of development, have turned out all right, why not explain how great low flush toilets are? In part 2, say why toilet size regulations are a better way of addressing water or energy concerns than a more direct method.

caslon 6y ago
I went to the one I'm most familiar with. Also, it was fine even when the regulations happened. It's not cherry-picking, it's choosing to speak on the one I'm most qualified to speak on. I live in an area of the country way too low-income to have dealt with most of those problems. But out of the problems listed, I know multiple of them to be outright lies, and since the author was fine about lying about the few I know for sure, it doesn't seem unlikely that the others are also lies.

gruez 6y ago

>LED bulbs (which were still available at time of the regulations) LED bulbs were readily available at the time? My memory might be fuzzy, but the phase out started in 2012[1], and the lighting section at the hardware store was a sea of CFLs. [1] In December 2007, the federal government enacted the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA), [...] The law was to effectively ban most incandescent light bulbs, starting in January 2012. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_incandescent_light_bulbs#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_incandescent_ligh...