House GOP Doesn’t Save Cheap Bulbs

House Republicans Tuesday failed to overturn energy-efficiency standards that would have allowed Americans to continue buying cheap but inefficient incandescent light bulbs next year. Republicans had argued during debates Monday that the lighting-efficiency standards approved on a bipartisan basis in 2007 amounted to excess government control over Americans’ lives. “We should let the marketplace decide,” Rep. Joe Barton (R) of Texas , the new bill’s sponsor, said in a floor debate Monday. “We should repeal this de facto ban, and we should let people decide if they want to buy a $6 light bulb or a 39-cent light bulb”/ Mark Clayton , Christian Science Monitor. More here. (AP photo: a compact fluorescent light bulb is seen in Philadelphia)

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