Jeff Johnson reports in the May 19 issue of Chemical & Engineering News that Senate Bill 2262 on energy efficiency did not advance to the full Senate and likely will die this year. A similar bill suffered the same fate last year.
That's good news! Maybe for the wrong reasons, but the Senate Committee did something right for once. We do not need a law to impose energy efficiency on us. The price of energy is sufficient control, such that there is an automatic control of quantity usage in an individual's effort to reduce household expenditures.
We need more freedom of market choice; not less. How many of you are happy with the fact that it is difficult or impossible in some cases to buy incandescent bulbs, which give instantaneous light of a wavelength you like, rather than being stuck with some slow reacting, poor wavelength LED by law? Let the private companies continue to improve their products to the point where they sell themself to the public. We don't need a law telling us what we must buy.
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