Halogen Bulbs Out, Led Lights In, The Eu Keeps Giving.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6049349/EU-ban-halogen-bulbs-end-month-making-lighting-homes-TWICE-expensive.html

Remember those nice bright cheap incandescent light bulbs?

[Zacs-Master]

Usual DM cobblers. They’re more expensive to buy but last much much longer and consume only a fraction of the electricity.

[sandyRoe]

After Brexit we'll be able to buy them again.

[Zacs-Master]

Here, have a read:
https://www.thegreenage.co.uk/article/cost-comparison-led-spotlight-versus-halogen-spotlight/

https://www.ledhut.co.uk/led-light-bulbs-comparison

[Zacs-Master]

It’s a worldwide move, not just the EU:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_incandescent_light_bulbs

[THECORBYLOON]

"So this shows that for each halogen bulb you replace with an LED equivalent, you are potentially going to save £175 over its lifetime."

What's the problem, ANOTHEOLDGIT?

[Zacs-Master]

He’s only read the headline and begun frothing at the mouth, TCL, same as all ‘ring thru the nose’ DM readers.

[THECORBYLOON]

Bloody interfering European bureaucrats forcing us to save money...

[Zacs-Master]

I know. One of OG’s cornerstones of voting leave has just evaporated! He must be distraught.

[Mamyalynne]

By 'eck will I have to get t'lectric?

[Zacs-Master]

Aye, Mamya. New fangled inventions. I’ve no truck with ‘em, I tells ya!

[dannyk13]

What is the EU rule regarding gas mantles?

[Mamyalynne]

Flimsy Danny.

[Baldric]

// The LED bulbs are at least twice as expensive as halogen lights, but advocates argue they are better value because the LED versions use a fraction of the electricity and have a much longer lifespan, potentially 15 years //

Shot, foot, self comes to mind.

[Zacs-Master]

Haaaaa!

[Zacs-Master]

To Mamya^^^

[THECORBYLOON]

The BBC said on the radio the other day that about 53 million smart meters would be fitted in every house by 2020.

I'll need to move a few things to the shed to make room for all that lot...

[dannyk13]

They seem to have an obsession with lighting.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/622949/European-Union-ban-candles-regulate

[Old_Geezer]

?!?

Anyway, more interference where it's unwarranted.

LEDs are fine for lighting unless you want a small bulb and brightness. But it should still be the consumer's choice. Sooner we are out of the EU, the better.

[Zacs-Master]

[KARL]

Never mind lighting, it's the privvy that used to be in my garden about 100 years ago that I resent the EU taking away - I'm absolutely certain that it must have been a grand sight that added to the atmosphere of the place. I should have had the choice of keeping it, and it would no doubt have been cheaper to run. Thankfully, in a year's time or so I will be able to reinstate it as the UK goes back to its ways dropping all the foreign nonsense. I mean, combi-boilers were utterly against the laws of physics until two decades ago or so - they'll again all be outlawed soon and ripped out. As for the circuit breakers that are now required, well we will soon be able to go back to threaded fuses. And so on, and so on.