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Two points: (1) Yes it is right, so if people still want to use old fashioned bulbs for safety they should be allowed to. (2) However the big problem with electricity and natural gas use is that people don't get the price signal on use: yes we get a total bill, but whether an electric bulb is any significant part of that is completely mysterious. The days when energy was too cheap to meter (in detail) are passing. The government's legit job is to make sure people get price signals.
Which reminds me of another story. When it was suggested in Britain that people get feedback on the costs of heating, this was strongly opposed by people saying "The elderly will turn their heating off and freeze to death when they see the cost ticking up." Information is not allowed because people behave more rationally in ignorance! Do you get the feeling that some people feel threatened by a world where people respond to price signals instead of to rules and regulations.
P.S. Isn't it annoying that we have to say "natural gas" instead of "gas" because the Americans call petrol "gas". Maybe I'm just in a mood to be annoyed by anything.
I'm not so sure that your British story isn't just an urban (political) myth, but I do agree that people and organisations should be provide with more / better information about their energy usage and its cost.
I'm hoping to have a post on smart meters and smart grids up in the next month so we can talk about the issue further then.
Regarding tungsten filament museum pieces, I still have a couple (and a lot of halogen downlights) but I remain unrepentant as I'm on 100% green power and have chosen to eliminate my carbon emissions that way. There is (as a ageneral rule) more than one way to solve each problem and mandating solutions usually isn't the best way of going about it.
Robert,
I do apologize for our sloppy use of the English language. Perhaps you can get the other kiwis to start using "NG" like I do.
On a more serious note. Regarding that ban on oil shale mining, has it been done via strip mining? Any sense of the efficiency of such efforts? As you may know, we also have many billions of bbls of "potential" oil in our Colorado oil shales. But given the environmental damage and lack of water resources they are off the table so far.