So suggests this Instapundit update.
The ban remains on the books. All Congress has done is zero out the money to enforce it. All it would take is for the funding to be restored as yet another publicity gimmick – or slipped it unobtrusively in yet another multi-thousand-page omnibus – and the ban could -immediately- drop into effect.
And if so… should I put up the link on the sidebar, again? I mean, I don’t mind making a buck or two off of people stocking up, but I don’t want to actually be a schmuck about it.
[It got noted in comments that I was flogging the wrong light bulbs. Thanks to Constant Reader Murgatroyd for pointing that out.]
Yes, put it back up. You’ll KNOW it’s dead when you see it’s cold, dead, body. Otherwise, assume it’s still in effect.
Hmm. You link to a 60-watt bulb. But the 2012 ban applies to 100-watt bulbs, with 60-watt bulbs banned as of 2013 and 40-watt bulbs banned in 2014.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_incandescent_light_bulbs#Federal_legislation …
Murgatroyd: huh. I should probably fix that.
What annoys me about this whole process is that by defunding enforcement of a law, they are tacitly approving the breaking of said law.
As a parent, I know that consistency is very important, So I cannot selectively enforce the rules I’ve laid down for my family.
And I agree that it looks like they only want to delay the enforcement of the ban.