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Ahhhh! The Light Bulb Ban is Coming! Everyone Start Hoarding!
7:57 pm in Business & Politics, energy efficiency, united states by TreeHugger
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"Hurry! Everyone in the car -- we're going to Home Depot! Let's clean 'em out of incandescent light bulbs before someone beats us to it. Then we'll hit Lowe's! Then Ace Hardware! Otherwise, we'll never get to feel that warm, energy-wasting light on our skin again! Light that Michele Bachmann and Rush Limbaugh tell us is the flickering light of our very freedom! Ahhhhh! What's that you say? We'll still be able to get incandescent bulbs after the ban goes into eff...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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