US To Extinguish (Most) Incandescent Bulb Sales By 2012

December 24th, 2007 | Category: Tech Talk

Engadget has noted a report in the New York Times that that the U.S. has “passed a law barring stores from selling incandescent light bulbs after 2012. ‘Course, the EU and Australia have already decided to ditch the inefficient devices in the not-too-distant future, but a new energy bill signed into

law that week throws the US into the aforementioned group. Better grab a pack of the current bulbs while you still can — soon you’ll be holding a sliver of history.”

Read more of that story at Slashdot.

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