EU banning Halogen bulbs!

[Gavin John Hyde]

Despite banning old filament bulbs and telling us all to use these halogen ones instead, the politburo and EU dictatorship have decided that we should now only use LED lamps and have banned halogen ones...
EU will ban halogen bulbs at the end of the month making lighting our homes TWICE as expensive | Daily Mail Online - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6049349/EU-ban-halogen-bulbs-end-month-making-lighting-homes-TWICE-expensive.html

I have a friend who runs his dads convenience/discount store in Bristol and has a supply of the old bulbs still, he is importing them from India and customs haven't stopped so much as a single one. Would love to see the headline if he ended up in court, daft thing is he would likely end up getting longer than if he smuggled drugs!

 

[buzzlightyear]

Buzz, if you mean what that post (Nazis), with that picture, quite frankly your a *****. If I've got that wrong apologies

my my ,the great EU .it was set up for trade .not telling us what we can and not do .
what about trying to say to traders you can only sell straight bananas.
F88KING BRATS.

 

[Des 56]

Blaming the EU for this the phasing out of high energy consumer products
It just goes to show how much that organisation gets blamed for policies that all of us (especially electricians)we should embrace even more than the general population

Its not a EU issue,its a habitable planet survival issue

Those who wail and scoff at these minuscule attempts to control energy use in the face of possible enormous future catastrophy
They would be better embracing the efforts do control energy use wherever those policies may have been formulated

Lighting is and has developed,it will continue to change and new products will take the place of less efficient older products,there is nothing controversial about bringing in legistlation to assist that change

Just as a footnote,the future may even see a incandescent lamp become more efficient than present day Leds
The problem of heat loss has been overcome in the lab

This type of lamp may evenreturn with a vengance

 

[davesparks]

like a 3kW kettle vs a 1kW kettle. to boil the water takes exactly the same amount of electricity in both. basic law of physics. it's just that the 3kW does it in 1/3 of the time.

A 1kW kettle of similar design uses more electricity to boil the same quantity of water and takes more than 3x the time that a 3kW kettle takes.

 

[buzzlightyear]

EU hoover ban: Powerful vacuums outlawed ,WHAT A LOAD OF S**t.

 

[ferg]

Halogens are bloody awful things anyway.

As for Quoting the Daily Fail as a source......

I just got more kittens from my daily mail blocker.

 

[buzzlightyear]

FERG ,why is most of the thing i have said in dumb .
please don't stand behind the door say some thing .
or did you voted to say .

 

[ferg]

Hardly standing behind the door Buzz.

The dumb rating has my name on it and your posts speak for themselves.

 

[buzzlightyear]

Halogens are bloody awful things anyway

it would be better to keep the halogens . glass then trying to strip a led bulb for land fill .

 

[Midwest]

my my ,the great EU .it was set up for trade .not telling us what we can and not do .
what about trying to say to traders you can only sell straight bananas.
F88KING BRATS.

Think your missing my point.

 

[buzzlightyear]

Think your missing my point.

is it the people saluting the EU DICTATE TO US and not to other country's like Spain & France . if you ask them
they say it is only for the English .

 

[Strima]

Did our political elite not start lobbying for a ban on high energy consuming devices back in 2006 and the EU then decided to bring in new laws?

So we have ourselves to blame as the EU are only doing what we wanted in the first place?

Apart from our kettles, you can leave those alone!!!

 

[andyb]

we want be do this next year . this small island will stand up to any country that mess with us .

You do know that our forefathers fought these people Buzz?
Some gave up their lives in the fight.

I guess you didn't.

 

[andyb]

my my ,the great EU .it was set up for trade .not telling us what we can and not do .
what about trying to say to traders you can only sell straight bananas.
F88KING BRATS.

Buzz there has never been a ban on bent bananas, that is a myth. There is a regulation defining classes of bananas but that was for wholesale purposes. That will not change.

I hope that helps Buzz, now that you know you were decieved I expect you'll be demanding another referendum, good luck with that, I'm against one.

 

[buzzlightyear]

You do know that our forefathers fought these people Buzz?
Some gave up their lives in the fight.

i am just pointing to the way the EU are a dictatorship. if the picture offended anybody then i will not apologise .
the men are buried in those foreign country's fort for hour beliefs
so next time those Cretins in EU should think before making up more c**P.
they are not far from the truth in that picture .
i voted out .

 

[andyb]

i am just pointing to the way the EU are a dictatorship. if the picture offended anybody then i will not apologise .
the men are buried in those foreign country's fort for hour beliefs
so next time those Cretins in EU should think before making up more c**P.
they are not far from the truth in that picture .
i voted out .

And I'm just pointing out that these are nazis (google it), and you want to join them.
Google dictatorship whilst you're at it and explain how that applies to the EU.