Last week, I walked through my local grocery and happened to come across the displays of new light bulbs. You know, the ones with the odd shapes and higher prices. The ones that our government has determined to be more environmentally correct. The halogen incandescent bulbs, compact fluorescent bulbs or LED (light-emitting diode) bulbs that the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 has determined will replace the warm glow given to the world by Thomas Edison in 1880.
Environmentalists, as might be expected, support the ban on manufacturing and importing of most current incandescent light bulbs, now expected to go into effect this fall. I do not. Not because I reject the new technology, but because I reject yet another intrusion of the ever-growing nanny state into another area of my life. Especially when the same goal could be accomplished by simply allowing the free market to take its natural course.
