I’ve been looking some today into the work that went into the Nobel Prize for Economics award for this year.
Two things crossed my mind with it. The first was a comedy bit, Marc Steyn, maybe?, about cleaning up a broken compact fluorescent bulb. The switch to CF bulbs was something that was bit in the early Obama administration.
I didn’t hate them as much as some people, though I did think the light was a little off. There were some people who really hated them, and I think there was some Tea Party folks who ran on bringing back the regular incandescent bulbs.
Meanwhile, white LED technology progressed to completely obviate the need for the ordered CF bulbs.
Technology progresses. Government can’t stop it.