Anti-Greenhouse Bulbs

That new USAToday opinions section is the gift that keeps on giving. This is another great article about compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) and whether the government should ban regular incandescent bulbs. I didn't know that this fact was true:

More important, the potential greenhouse-gas reductions are
stunning: The U.S. government estimates that if every American household
replaced just one bulb with a CFL, it would have an impact equal to taking a
million cars off the
road.

I would be in favor of a ban on the sale of regular bulbs. If these CFLs are such an energy saver then we should embrace them for the sole purpose that it will reduce our need for "Terrorist Oil." Anything that prevents more money from going into the pockets of the Mullahs or Chavez is a good thing. If it takes buying a whole bunch of weird looking light bulbs to prevent the building of one more bomb belt or Hezbollah rocket then I am all for it.

If Al Gore sold Inconvenient Truth as a way to break the Mullah's grip on power and less as a scare story of 60 feet of water drowning the coasts in 100 years then he would get more conservatives in his camp. Conservatives care a lot about security and the best way to get that security is to stop making our enemies rich.