At least we are doing our part to stop the scourge of incandescent illumination:
The last major GE factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs in the United States is closing this month, marking a small, sad exit for a product and company that can trace their roots to Thomas Alva Edison’s innovations in the 1870s.
The remaining 200 workers at the plant here will lose their jobs.
“Now what’re we going to do?” said Toby Savolainen, 49, who like many others worked for decades at the factory, making bulbs now deemed wasteful.
Well, your job isn’t important to the eco-Marxist, so they don’t care what you do now.
They only care that you don’t use the light bulbs that are not approved by the federal government.
If this lunacy isn’t enough consider this. In order to prevent you from using the energy wasting incandescent light bulb, environmentalists had Congress pass a law that forces you to use flourescent light bulbs.
Those light bulbs are mainly made in…wait for it…China:
The resulting savings in energy and greenhouse-gas emissions are expected to be immense. But the move also had unintended consequences.
Rather than setting off a boom in the U.S. manufacture of replacement lights, the leading replacement lights are compact fluorescents, or CFLs, which are made almost entirely overseas, mostly in China.
Consisting of glass tubes twisted into a spiral, they require more hand labor, which is cheaper there. So though they were first developed by American engineers in the 1970s, none of the major brands make CFLs in the United States.
So the energy saving light bulbs are made by slave labor in a country notorious for black smoke belching coal burning power plants, then packed on a giant ship or cargo plane a shipped across the ocean to America, where it is then packed on a truck and taken to the local Wal-Mart.
As for the American worker, this guy gets it:
“Everybody’s jumping on the green bandwagon,” said Pat Doyle, 54, who has worked at the plant for 26 years. But “we’ve been sold out. First sold out by the government. Then sold out by GE. “
Without a doubt. This is the last light bulb factory in America to close, but it wasn’t the first. This law cost far more than 200 jobs. But think of all the Chinese with jobs now. Think about that in November, because the heavy hand of government that cost these workers their jobs didn’t come from conservatives.
Hat Tip: Dale Franks and Jimmie Bise, Jr. via Twitter
