metspitzer wrote:
WASHINGTON - Members of Congress are beginning to have second thoughts
about the ban on incandescent light bulbs effective in 2014 as a
result of an energy bill signed into law earlier this year.

Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, says his objection is very basic - the
Constitution doesn't authorize Congress to do anything remotely like
banning a product that has been used safely and efficiently for more
than 100 years in favor of Chinese-imported compact fluorescent light
bulbs that pose considerable health and safety risks.

Poe is an idiot. Either the bulbs in question got here through Interstate
Commerce or they miracled themselves into existence.

If the former, Congress has unfettered authority to regulate them; if the
latter, "Let there be light" takes on a new meaning.