Cartoons reacting to the ban

Not had any "On the Light Side" (section link) posts for a while... banning bulbs sure has its absurd side.
The second one is from a while back here, many others been put online since then - some of the quirkier ones...




cartoonstock.com

joe heller




source victoria times?

mackay 250news via paul fbook




How Regulations are Wrongly Justified
14 points, referenced:
Includes why the overall society savings aren't there, and even if they were, why alternative policies are better, including alternative policies that target light bulbs.
 

In Candescent We Trust!

Turkey leaders say: "Incandescent Bulbs Rule!"






"These truths we hold to be self evident:
That all bulbs are created equal, but that some bulbs are more equal than others!"






"A big country needs a bright bulb"






Translation: "Towards a brighter future"






Flying the Flag For Brussels? "Only with our bulbs!"

"Switch all your Bulbs and... Weep?"

Singleminded pushers of "energy efficiency" having second thoughts?
Noooooo.....


As seen on Iowa Energy Center
(The Energy Efficiency Agency of the Iowa General Assembly.  Ah yes)
 

"Cartoon incandescent idea bulbs to be banned by the EU"

German Kojote Magazin satirical article about the ban-happy EU seeking to forbid images of the terrible incandescent light bulbs.
The bottom of the page says "this is pure fiction"... perhaps by way of saying that this is not beyond belief of European Commission activity!

With thanks to the German Facebook site  Wir holen uns die Glühbirne zurück.

Translated via Google with some corrections to make it more understandable...

EU will Glühbirnen in Comic-Sprechblasen verbieten
"The EU wants to ban cartoon 'idea' incandescent bulbs"

Under the current ban on sales of incandescent bulbs since September, the European Commission wants to ban the display of bulbs in comic bubbles. This was announced on Wednesday in Brussels.

Cartoonists usually use the image of a flashing light bulb, if they want to highlight a bright idea. This will however soon be over from the EU intention: "After all, manufacture and sale of all incandescent bulbs is forbidden," said a spokesman. "Cartoon heroes would make very poor role models, if their thoughts should cointinue to be illustrated with the outlawed objects." The ban is to apply from January 2013 for all EU-printed or sold comics. "The private ownership of older issues will, however, remain unpunished, if an antiquarian interest can be demonstrated," the spokesman said.

To replace the light bulb icon, the EU has developed the symbol of an energy-saving lamp according to Ecodesign Directive 2009/125/EC. They have also (helpfully) created a template which cartoonists can download from the EU website.

Light Bulbs Stamped Engraved and Tattooed!

Update Oct 27: Edit error left out the bottom part of the content

 free-clipart.net

Returning to the ongoing series of memorial/tribute type posts on the blog,
there are other ways of commemorating light bulb images...

To begin with, already posted last year, repeated for completeness:
Satire from the German blog Otitis Media di Monaco (also see the light bulb condom post), with a look at his stamp collection in a GDR or for that matter EUSSR or a Soviet EUnion mode...

GDR CFL stamp series
Contrary to popular belief, the state-planned socialist economy of communist Eastern Germany is not dead; instead, the EU in Brussels is issuing electric policies and spreading propaganda lies that are strangely reminiscent of the days of Nicolaie Ceausescu and Enver Hodscha [Hoxha].


No wonder that the old East German stamps just got an upgrade!

Beautiful european mercury poison mushroom of the novel compact fluorescent kind.
Experts may recognize the bulb design, it’s “made in Eastern Germany”.

Here, ever optimistic East German youths are shown celebrating 55 years of Socialist East Germany just a few years ago – and the proud new sign of centralist European planning and energy micromanagement bureaucracy: the compact fluorescent bulb!

Last, but not least, catch a glimpse of the beauty of Communist single party rule that inspired the well known con(servation) artist Andris Piebalgs, better known as the EU’s Energy Commissioner, to paint such a heroic eurocratic light bulb change brigadier…

Candle power... better than some modern alternatives? ;-)
From Helmut Höge's Taz.de article....

Edison remembered... old unsurprising and new surprising sources...

 coinandstampgallery.com

 ebay.com

British Maritime Energy... hardly sunk by powering the humble incandescent!!

 123rf.com

... while in future remembering the CFL by burying it ? ;-)

 greg groesch  washingtontimes.com

The Zazzle.com site has creative options...

including on metal....

...and how about on skin for real permanence? ;-)
A memorial type tattoo..."Mom I love you as much as I love incandescent light bulbs"

 tattoostime.com

A Bright Future Investment?

joe heller
... and 2013 and beyond...

The Edison Obama Light Bulb...

Given the US election campaign kicking off in earnest with the first TV debate last night, there have of course been plenty of satirical images around on the light bulb issue, which (unfortunately) is a clearly split partisan issue:

While I know of several against the ban on "right wing" freedom of choice grounds, there are also those against on environmental grounds, readers of the blog who Í know would otherwise have a "left wing" political orientation.

Still, I am sure the latter won't mind a little fun with some politically oriented images against the ban ;-)
The image sources are on the images.

Explaining the above for those unfamiliar with the context, President Obama has at various times praised the American entrepreneurial spirit, citing past examples that he nevertheless has sought to ban, or to implement and strengthen a ban on (different light bulbs) or to alter by federal regulation in various ways - and not because the products were unsafe to use...


President Obama, State of the Union Address 25 January 2011:

What we can do - what America does better than anyone - is spark the creativity and imagination of our people.
We are the nation that put cars in driveways and computers in offices,
the nation of Edison and the Wright brothers...

A year later, in the 2012 State of the Union address, he also said
"I will not back down from protecting our kids from mercury poison"...








How Regulations are Wrongly Justified 14 points, referenced: Includes why the overall society savings aren't there, and even if they were, why alternative policies are better, including alternative policies that target light bulbs.