On 21/04/17 12:45, Capitol wrote:
Andy Burns wrote:
Dave Plowman wrote:

I'd suggest to read up about the reasons behind such legislation. Rather
than making up your own.

Are you suggesting that saving a few hundred watts for a few minutes per
month is distinguishable from noise in the 2750 TWh EU electricity
budget?

I'd even agree that lighting is a worthwhile target, but that maybe they
pushed it a few years too early, how many subsidised CFLs lurk in the
backs of cupboards when decent LEDs were only a few years down the track?


Hindsight is a wonderful thing. More to the point, why should we
reduce energy consumption?

because energy comes at a price.

That's how the market used to work. If e.g. LED lightbulbs cost less
over the bulb lifetime than filament, you would buy LED.

But because the Lefty****s didn't get the ideological result they wanted
out of the free market, they turned it into a subsidy market, where
legislation and taxation dictated what you bought instead.


--
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all
private property.

Karl Marx