Y2Kyoto: First They Came For The Light Bulbs

Ok, so the environMENTALists won't be happy until we are sitting in the dark, freezing, eating tofu AND living with dirty carpets...

Boy, they've gone to far this time!

Nobody will accept this degree of nanny-statism!

There'll be riots over this!

Ya....don't....think....so,...eh?

I really like the word 'ecomentalists'. Start using it now, because it sounds kinda funny...

Abundant electrical energy was the key to maintaining our expansion as well as our modern lifestyle. When even Hydro electric is seen as anti-Gaia and Solar or Windmill is the new green religion we are signing our future over to a life that China is leaving behind and we are anxious to move in to. We are building more bicycle lanes while they are investing in super highways. Ontario is a perfect example of insuring that industry is no longer welcome due to exorbitant electrical cost because common sense is ignored in the name of everything green. Rather than build logical generating capacity we must cut consumption to appease the new Gods of chicken little. The UN is just working on the concept that poor nations are much easier to rule and control and Agenda 21 is the vehicle of choice. China will let the UN know when the damage done to the west is complete and they no longer want to play their games. It's working out well for our new overlords.

http://americans-for-liberty.com/page.asp?ID=2751

Thanks for the linkage Kate. :)

What starts out in the EU becomes fashionable in Canadian Liberal circles, and they start to look for ways to wiggle it in to our society. If you look at the Liberal think tanks up and down Sparks St. right now, many of them are looking at this EU push with approval.

Then there's this from the LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-roads-black-boxes-20131027,0,6090226.story#axzz2j2Hcn5rj

People think I'm lying about the "black box" thing too, but sadly no. You WILL be paying by the mile in the next ten years, in addition to the gas taxes and assorted other fees already charged to car drivers, and I'm quite sure you will be paying by the month for the rent on the little black box too.

Solution? Start raising hell right now. Or shut up and don't complain when you can't afford the tax to drive to your sh1t job in the city, and you're stuffed in with five other semi-strangers in a Prius.

Someone had beans for dinner last night!

I'm beginning to understand how things were better in days or yore!

Avoid OnStar, cellphone, GPS. Use paper maps and land-line phones, cash too.

I still use paper maps.

Me too. They don't run out of batteries, and they don't remember every single place you've been and how fast you were going. GPS units are known to do that. So is the engine control computer in your car.

That's why I keep a car around that doesn't have any computers in it. In case I might need that someday. Let the cops try to download my carburetor and cable driven analog speedometer.

Regulators and environmentalists destroying your appliances. Over the last few years I have read more than a couple of articles like this one: http://dailyreckoning.com/regulators-destroying-your-home-appliances/

Others have dealt with effects of regulatory standards on lawnmowers and everyone knows what has happened to light bulbs and shower heads. Recently I have had occasion to look into replacing our trusty old oven from the 1970s which has given yeoman service, but has now earned its retirement. What a nasty surprise! An oven which will fit into our current receptacle without modification has smaller interior dimensions than the retiree, which means less functionality. Why would this be the case 35 years later? From what the retailer tells us, Canadian Standards, driven by the environmental lobby insists on greater energy efficiency; therefore less functionality. I am all for energy efficiency, but surely in a free society there should scope for consumer choice between functionality and efficiency. Apparently not in Canada.

Perhaps the non tariff barrier ploy at work. Just a thought.
Anyway, can't they mandate appliances that will only operate
when the windmills are wildly spinning and the sun is beating
the hell out of solar panels?

felis corpulentis said: "Recently I have had occasion to look into replacing our trusty old oven from the 1970s which has given yeoman service, but has now earned its retirement. What a nasty surprise! An oven which will fit into our current receptacle without modification has smaller interior dimensions than the retiree, which means less functionality."

You should try taking a new stove apart. I did that when mine died a couple years ago. There's nothing in there. A few wires, some fiberglass, that's it. Cr@p!

My "new" replacement stove is an Inglis from the 1980s. It weighs probably twice as much as a brand new one. Much beefier wiring and elements, switches and relays built to last forever.