World Becomes Brighter as Trump Reverses Biden’s Incandescent Light Bulb Ban
And user-friendly toilets, dishwashers, and showers are coming back soon, too!
President Donald Trump has spent another day reversing Biden’s efforts to limit consumer choices over products that limit their options and hinder their quality of life.
In the name of efficiency, Biden’s bureaucrats banned incandescent light bulbs, normal-flowing toilets, and effective shower heads. Trump has just instructed his Environmental Protection Agency administrator to bring them all back.
Here is the USAID subsidiary Politico’s hot take on the subject.
“I am hereby instructing Secretary Lee Zeldin to immediately go back to my Environmental Orders, which were terminated by Crooked Joe Biden, on Water Standards and Flow pertaining to SINKS, SHOWERS, TOILETS, WASHING MACHINES, DISHWASHERS, etc., and to likewise go back to the common sense standards on LIGHTBULBS, that were put in place by the Trump Administration, but terminated by Crooked Joe,” Trump posted online Tuesday.
Zeldin is the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. The Energy Department — not EPA — is responsible for establishing efficiency standards for consumer products and appliances.
Still, the post echoes Trump’s long-time criticism of efficiency standards put in place for products, like shower heads and light bulbs.
LED bulbs have been a standard replacement for the incandescent bulbs. There is myriad of reasons to deride the blue light that LED bulbs emit.
Blue light suppresses melatonin production, disrupting circadian rhythms and making it harder to fall asleep. This is particularly problematic when exposed to blue light in the evening or at night.
From the American Academy of Ophthalmology:
Blue light does affect the body’s circadian rhythm, our natural wake and sleep cycle. During the day, blue light wakes us up and stimulates us. But too much blue light exposure late at night from your phone, tablet or computer can make it harder to get to sleep.”
Prolonged exposure to blue light can cause eye strain, resulting in tired, sore, and dry eyes. This can lead to blurred vision and headaches.
So, once again, Trump is right. And many Americans are thrilled with the news.
Holy cow! Am I really getting my incandescent light bulbs back? Yeehaw.
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— Dana Marie (@danamarie111149) February 12, 2025
Low-flow toilets often struggle to flush away all waste due to the reduced water used per flush. This can lead to incomplete waste removal, requiring multiple flushes, defeating water conservation’s purpose.
Insufficient water flow can cause waste to accumulate in sewer lines, leading to backups and unpleasant odors. Cities like San Francisco experienced significant sewer system issues due to the widespread adoption of low-flow toilets.
The city of San Francisco is dealing with its lack of flow with $100 million in system upgrades, and a controversial $14 million plan to pour bleach into the sewer system to neutralize the odor and disinfect the water.
Trump, again, is proven correct.
Who’s happy that Trump just gave us back the freedom to actually use our sinks, showers, and toilets like normal people?
No more trickle showers, no more weak toilet flushes, and finally—your washing machine doesn’t take two hours per load.
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— Desiree (@DesireeAmerica4) February 11, 2025
Finally, “high efficiency” dishwashers are ironically named. These dishwashers use less water, which can result in dishes not being cleaned properly. High-quality dishwashers may run up to 2-3 hours per cycle to compensate for lower water usage. Lower operating temperatures in eco-friendly cycles can lead to dishes not drying completely, requiring the use of rinse aid to promote water runoff.
I'm a fucking retard if I'd waited another month I could have gotten a dishwasher that doesn't take THREE HOURS to run
I think I'm going to return it. And get my TRUMP DISHWASHER https://t.co/bZVWY7Q6Hn pic.twitter.com/EcLWOII2zp
— Cristine Rice (@PstafarianPrice) January 21, 2025
So, again, score another one for Trump.
Personally, I am planning to load up on the incandescent bulbs as soon as they become available.
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The World Becomes Brighter:
The American people voted to replace the dim bulb in the White House.
I am for incandescent choice, and there are applications where they really shine, extreme hot or cold temperatures & nonventilated light fixtures, Cheap resistive load banks which I use in developing electronics. Vibration resistance.
That said, LED lights are far more economical to run, and they are available in a far greater spectrum than other technologies.
Yes, I agree with your rationale. I am pro-choice when it comes to bulbs and pro-life when it comes to babies
Good for load banks if you can tolerate the 6X cold filament current inrush.
When the ban was announced I immediately bought several boxes of incandescent bulbs as we use them in the well house to keep the water line from freezing. We tried an HE washing machine. It sucked. Clothes were not clean, we ended up doing half loads which doubled the amount of laundry and sometimes after a full cycle some of the clothes would come out bone dry. We returned it and found a conventional washer which works great.
I started loading up on incandescent bulbs years ago, before any of us knew the presidency was a twinkling in Trump’s eye. Not a single one of our floor, desk, and table lamps has an LED or whatever bulb.
The trouble with my stash is that I have too many 100W bulbs and not enough 60W and 70W. Oh well, I guess I can live with that!
This may not seem like much to most of you, but I have a friend who used LEDs in the hot season and then switched to incandescent bulbs during the coldest parts of winter, here in Florida, in order not to run his electric furnace. It was in the high twenties just last month.
Resistance electric heat cost the same rather it is a furnace or a bunch of light bulbs.
A home furnace doesn’t provide light.
True, but do you want light at night? They re expensive to run. I have both 16 500W halogen in my barn and 4′ florescent. Those halogen are pulling 8 Kw, that adds up fast, but they are instant on,
What are you saying, that he heats his house with lightbulbs? I don’t think that is a thing. We did switch to LED lights inside to cut down on the electric use since Biden drove the prices through the roof with the green nonsense. Helps somewhat. What helped more was pulling the electric water heater and going to an on demand gas heater. Highly recommend. Switched the stove and furnace out, too.
and going to an on demand gas heater
Then you’re lucky to have Trump in office, since Biden was going to effectively ban those, too.
At the time led bulbs became widely available, I bought them because I believed the hype. I was in an a small apt bldg with individual hookups in the basement for the 4 renters. I went thru several led bulbs above my washer & dryer because they kept only lasting a week. Turned out unlike incandescent bulbs, led bulbs are very sensitive to voltage surges from major appliances starting and stopping.
Central Planning and “one size fits all” laws are beloved by Leftists, but reality and Murphy has a way of biting you in the tuchis when you go that route.
The first LED were Lights of America, and they were garbage. An expensive lesson, today most are decent, and they have become inexpensive.
I remember Lights of America. But I remember my electric utility actually giving them away free at first, then printing killer coupons for them.
Sounds like a possible neutral return issue. Even incandescents and halogens can be unhappy with surges.
Really happy about the dishwashers more than anything.
I use LED and incandescent bulbs. I’ll admit I do love my “warm” LED bulbs for overhead lighting because I can get more light in areas that need it without burning out the fixture. For desk or reading lamps, I stick to incandescent. My computer/reading glasses all have a slight tint to reduce glare.
I prefer the LED since the burn significantly cooler, less costly and some of the led fixtures allow you to adjust the tint of the light.
A really interesting feature on some smart LED bulbs is that they will do adjustments to color temperature dependent on the time of day. All in the name of keeping circadian rhythms going well. As soon as I get moved I will – in addition to having my home automation stuff up and going again – will have a little “lab” where I will experiment with this sort of stuff. My inner geek raging to get out and all that sort of thing.
I’ve never heard of those type of LED’s. Sounds interesting but at what price?
I’m shopping tomorrow for four 150W 7200K LED bulbs for the lights that are 20′ off the floor. No plan to change my plans. Hoping they outlive the incandescents and help cut back on my insane power bill..
I don’t mind LED bulbs so much. What I hate is how many folks are building the LEDs directly into the fixture. And those LEDs do NOT last all that long. So I can’t simply replace a bulb – I will have to replace an entire fixture in 5 years.
Just to clarify a point on low flush toilets.
A) the design of the low flush toilet is often better at getting the solids out of the toilet into the sewer line with the caveat that some designs are better than others.
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B) the problem is having sufficient water to move the solids though the home sewer lines into the municipal sewer line due to lack of sufficient water.
IF low-flush toilets are “better” at moving solids out, then they wouldn’t require multiple flushes, which they do. So how are you deducing “better” from this?
High flow moves the shit out just fine.
My dreadnoughts require at least three flushes. These modern toilets make it harder than sinking the Bismarck.
A third one. A lot of older homes have waste pipes at the wrong angle to work right with low-flow toilets. I think too steep or something. I just know this: my need to plunge low flow has been maybe twice in 20 years, and flushing twice maybe ten times; no more than with the old ones. As I have said in other comments, I must be doing something wrong.
What I really want back are standard flow kitchen faucets, and – especially – standard flow or high flow shower nozzles,
For the older faucets and heads, most of them were restricted by the insertion of a little bit of plastic, and you could take it out if you knew what to do and wanted to do so.
It seems they are now making it part of other pieces now, so you can’t correct it.
Because it would be catastrophe if you were allowed to make the wrong decision. /eyeroll/
For outdoor night lighting, I use High Pressure sodium. The bulb costs about $30, and lasts about 5-6 years (on 24/7/365).
The light has an orange hue which is much less disruptive to sleep, unlike lights with a blue hue such as some LED’s , mercury or metal helite ( the type used for indoor sport arenas or football/baseball stadiums.
Too late for companies like Osram Sylvania that had manufacturing facilities in small rural Pennsylvania towns like Wellsboro and St. Marys. Those plants have been dark for a few years now, but still welcome news.
Exactly what I came here to post.
Welcome news for choice, but too late for all the communities that lost jobs and plants when they were shut down.
Democrats are just evil. They replaced good jobs with nothing, good bulbs with mercury toxic compact fluorescent (led came later), and opened the door to meth and fentanyl to destroy these small company towns.
Whenever I see someone in DC complain about a lost job I think “where were the tears for these communities?”
Carthago delenda est
Not just the plants went dark, they were bulldozed to get out from under the tax burden. Allowing sales isn’t doing much for the employed factory workers
I bought some of those curly que compact florescence bulbs to try outside. As security lighting they were worthless. In cold weather they work, I used them down to -30, but they took a long time to warm up. I got rid of all of them for LED lights. Much superior and they do save some power.
Now let’s get the gals back in the kitchen and dressing pretty with nicely done hair.
This is the moron I want making energy decisions.
“I never understood wind,” Trump said, according to Mediaite. “I know windmills very much, I have studied it better than anybody. I know it is very expensive. They are made in China and Germany mostly, very few made here, almost none, but they are manufactured, tremendous — if you are into this — tremendous fumes and gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right?”
“So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous, tremendous amount of fumes and everything. You talk about the carbon footprint, fumes are spewing into the air, right spewing, whether it is China or Germany, is going into the air,” the president added.
Shut up, dumbass.
Must be DEI, incompetent,
not nice to expose the cult leader , is it ? He’s a moron- own it.
He’s been a lot more successful in life than you, I dare say.
So, who’s the “moron”?
he’s a great con man ,I’ll give him that. Hey ,you fell for it.
The only thing you’ve exposed is your mental deficiency, dumbass.
A moron thus spaketh..
“I never understood wind,” Trump said, according to Mediaite. “I know windmills very much, I have studied it better than anybody. I know it is very expensive. They are made in China and Germany mostly, very few made here, almost none, but they are manufactured, tremendous — if you are into this — tremendous fumes and gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right?”
“So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous, tremendous amount of fumes and everything. You talk about the carbon footprint, fumes are spewing into the air, right spewing, whether it is China or Germany, is going into the air,” the president added.
If YOU want a windmill, go build one. Don’t demand the rest of us build one for you.
If we buy you a Greta Thunberg blowup doll, will you go away?
You just come to post TDS rants with nothing to actually say. Your not even an original troll.
I also have trouble with toilets, but one of them is dual flush, it works very well.
Dual flush makes more sense than strictly low flow. I first saw that in Japan over ten years ago, but the only place I’ve seen it stateside was at the community college I used to teach at.
It’s good news to hear that common sense is coming back for all these things, but unfortunately the more recent building codes require low flow toilets, shower heads, and other “energy efficient” features and the like. I’m not sure if it’s a general thing, though, or if it’s just applicable in certain municipalities via amendments they’ve adopted.
If I bought new construction that had those stupid toilets, I’d swap them out as soon as possible.
You can’t buy them as they are not sold in 5he US anymore.
Thank Rep. Fred Upton R-MI (and of the Maytag family) as they all have his signature on the committee paperwork as originator.
Right. In America, old (used) toilets are a highly sought-after collectors’ item.
Another example of how electing Democrats makes you a third-world shithole.
‘common sense’…Trump. thanks for the laugh, hahahaha
Dual flush makes no sense, you have a choice between low flow and super low flow.
We retrofitted our toilets in our fifty year old town home years ago because they are higher and easier to get off of, an issue to somebody in his seventies, and the water saving feature is a bonus. We rarely have to plunge them.
Almost all our lights are LED at 3000K which is only slightly higher color temperature than an incandescent (at ~2700K) and have high CRI. They are much cooler and add less heat to the home which is significant in the South in summer. The only remaining incandescents, besides appliances, are in a spare bedroom we rarely enter.
Our dish washer is somewhat high efficiency and long wash times are no big deal when we set it to start running at 4:00 in the morning.
We made these changes as we needed to, not because Big Brother said we had to.
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no big deal when we set it to start running at 4:00 in the morning.
Unless you have 2 simultaneous failures: the outflow valve and the float switch that cuts off the water when it gets too high inside. Then, it running all night long means it pumped water out into your first floor all night long. That’s a couple of inches in a few hundred square feet.
That was NOT a comfortable feeling to step off the last step that morning….
You made those changes because your other options were taken away.
That is not choice, it’s force.
Yes Keep the government out of our light sockets
Unless you can strap it to the chair first.
Factories here that make them stopped doing so long ago. Decades, yeah?
Really hope they come back, because I vastly preferred them.
Not holding my breath though.
Who would invest in making them, knowing that the next POTUS can simply ban them again with the stroke of a pen?
Presidents are allowed to do FAR too much with EO’s.
knowing that the next POTUS can simply ban them again with the stroke of a pen?
This is the problem. The president does NOT have that power under the Constitution. PERIOD. And we need to be the power brokers that prevent any future President from overstepping those bounds.
Biden’s bureaucrats banned…
While this is true, they certainly didn’t do all of it. There’s Congressional involvement in some of it. And there was 0bama. Even the administration of Bush 43 pushed some of it
Trump’s EO is going to help a lot, but we need to go back and repeal a bunch of laws Congress passed, too. Get their elitist, controlling, tyrannical fingers out of our lives.
I like LED lights. Many of them these days come in “softer” shades by using blue light filters. The prices have come down over the years to where they’re just “expensive” rather than “ridiculous”…but they last so long that I think overall they’re probably more cost effective than incandescent bulbs.
Their benefits are that they last WAY longer, use less electricity and generate way less waste heat.
When I remodeled our kitchen shortly after buying the house almost 30 years ago, I got rid of the recessed fluorescent lights that were there and put in two fixtures with three bulbs each for a total six bulbs.
When I was using incandescent bulbs in them, I was changing bulbs constantly. Seemed like every week I was climbing a ladder to change one of the 6 bulbs. As soon as LEDs became a “thing” (and they were still quite expensive at the time) I switched all the bulbs to LEDs. That was probably 15 years ago and I’d guess I’ve replaced each of them once and maybe two of them twice since then.
The difference in longevity is shocking. I don’t know why I had such trouble with incandescent bulbs in those fixtures, but whatever the issue was, LEDs resolved it.
But I digress.
So my choice is LED bulbs…especially in lieu of Florescent or CFL bulbs which I hate, but I prefer them over incandescent as well.
With that said, that’s my choice. It shouldn’t be forced on anyone else.
If you were using too high of a wattage incandescent lamp, they put out too much heat for some fixtures And it makes the Filments, burn out prematurely.
And, if your lamps were made in China, they were junk to begin with.
Feit, I think it was, used to sell a line of “long lasting” bulbs. They were bulbs spec’ed and labeled for 130V, so when you installed their 100W bulb into your 120V lamp, you didn’t quite get 100W, but they sure did last a long time.
Amen. I replaced the kitchen light twice, going from an incandescent bulb light to a circular florescent…then replacing the circular florescent bulb…then burning out the internal transformer and having to buy a replacement…then two more circular bulbs until the internal transformer burned out again. Replaced it with a three-bulb incandescent type with LED light bulbs in it. FAR easier to replace bulbs, no more burnt-out transformers, and warm light (if you buy the right LED bulbs), with less power consumption and less mercury. Technology sprinted ahead since the bulb-ban (thankfully) and there’s only a few apps left where regular bulbs trump LEDs like ovens and flea traps. It was still a ham-handed way to go about the process. If they had just banned imports and taxed domestic production ten cents a bulb with a schedule of going up to 25 cents at the end of a decade, the whole process would have run far easier with less chaos.
When my oven light burned out, I searched for a new one. I didn’t find one for months. So I put an LED bulb in the oven. Not a good idea at all. The first time I used the oven afterwards, the heat melted the bulb. Oops! I didn’t realize that would happen. I know better now. I have also found the correct bulb. I prefer incandescent bulbs in the winter because of the heat they put out.
Not that too many here will care, but I’ve got an antique Incandescent
lamp collection that I’ve been adding to for years.
My oldest is from 1884 and it’s a beauty.
And no, Edison DID NOT invent the light bulb.
I buy LED bulbs because they have come a long way with the color and do save some money. I resent being told I have to buy them, though. It should be up to people to make the choice. Same with toilets or washing machines. If I paid a water bill I would probably change out to them but since I have a well water is not an issue.
We have a Low Flow Toto toilet and it’s the most amazing piece equipment since the invention of the Lunar Lander. It’s ultra quite and with one flush it’s all gone no matter how much toilet paper is in the bowl. No tell tail brown stains or brown skid marks are left for manual removal. I have yet to back it up so the plunger is out in the garage and the toilet brush is now only used for weekly cleaning. Yes they are pricy but they actually do work.
There are many who like LEDs, and those who like incandescent bulbs. Just as there are many different reasons why folks prefer a particular dishwasher, shower head, refrigerator, AC, Car type — any product or service. For their own reasons.
The several governments have no place choosing winners and choosing technologies – because they are convinced that they know better. Else we do not have a free society, only one which presents us with a few “safe” choices, chosen by government regulators.
Are many companies going to make large investments for plants and equipment to build things that are likely to be abolished again by a subsequent administration?
These large scale and long term plants are not things you just plan, build and run on a momentary policy change.
Think about new oil refineries. There’s a reason a new one hasn’t been built in years, and won’t be built for many more years.
It has less to do with permitting, zoning, land use restrictions and such, although these are important.
It has to do with the long run secular trend of decline (even if it’s self-induced, it’s still real).
Stock up now before President Pothole Pete takes the oath of office in 2029!
I live in California, so the cost of electricity is a concern.
I like LEDs for Christmas lights and backyard lights because mine can change colors and do other interesting things.
Two other places are
1. Where it is a pain to change the light bulb. At almost 80 my wife does not want me using our extension ladder.
2. Where I can put an LED light bulb that puts out more light than the highest-wattage incandescent bulb the fixture is rated for.
Actually CFLs have come down in price over 10 years. They are for sale at Dollar Store nowadays. But the white light is less attractive, and they have environmental disposal issues.
They are on sale because LEDs are putting CFIs out of business.
IT the government didn’t push CFLs, the LEDs would have made them obsolete long ago!
CFLs give me headaches! I don’t want to be anywhere near them!