Dear Global Warmers, Lighten Up

Do you like your bright floodlights, your dimmer switches, your easy-to-read-by light bulbs, the motel light that Tom Bodett leaves on for you, and your choice to buy whatever you want? Well, just as the left wants to control what you say, now they want to tell you what kind of lights to purchase. It happened in Australia, is happening in Europe, and might be happening next in a country near you.

"The European Council ... invites the Commission to rapidly submit proposals to enable increased energy efficiency requirements for office and street lighting to be adopted by 2008 and on incandescent lamps and other forms of lighting in private households by 2009," the final statement said.

Incandescent lamps are traditional lightbulbs which use a filament. They are inefficient compared with new fluorescent lights and other alternatives.

"We are very impressed by the Australians and before we came to the summit, we had already been in touch with them and looking at the issue. We support this scheme and hope to take it on," Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said.

I didn't like it when the government said that water holding tanks on toilets should be smaller to conserve water, but those frequently result in double-flushing in some cases. Don't even think of a courtesy flush. Well, we may be seeing the same thing with electricity.

Now, governments ruled by the left are starting to tell us to use "their" light bulbs. If I'm going to have adequate light to read, then I would use three times as many of their bulbs to get the necessary brightness. So, how much would that cost for additional bulbs and how much energy would that take?

It's only starting. The "we know better than you, leftist, global warming" crowd wants to gradually run every aspect of our lives. By the way, did you know that PETA wants everyone to become vegetarians to stop global warming? Next thing you know, we're going to be told that we can only drive 55 mph on the highways. Oh...we've been there. And, it sure would be hard to watch night baseball with only flourescent and LED lights to shine the way.

This summer, I intend to go to the Braves games driving 70 mph, to grill meat while we tailgate, to watch the game under bright non-flourescent lights, and to flush the toilet in the men's room twice if I want. It's the American way, and I'll do it because I like it and because I can. So, lefties, go away.