Friday, June 10, 2011

Need a Light Bulb? Uncle Sam Gets to Choose

Virginia Postrel, Bloomberg
If you want to know why so many Americans feel alienated from their government, you need only go to Target and check out the light bulb aisle. Instead of the cheap commodities of yesteryear, you'll find what looks like evidence of a flourishing, technology-driven economy.There are "ultrasoft" bulbs promising "softer soft white longer life" light, domed halogens for "bright crisp light" and row upon row of Energy Smart bulbs -- some curled in the by-now- familiar compact fluorescent form, some with translucent shells that reveal only hints of the twisting...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/06/10/need_a_light_bulb_uncle_sam_gets_to_choose_257066.html

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