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Where the standards are set isn’t arbitrary.

If LEDs were exactly as efficient as incandescent bulbs there wouldn’t be a law that bans all lightbulbs. Also there’s no way a law would pass that sets the efficiency standard of incandescent bulbs because the law would do nothing.

It’s a ban on incandescent bulbs with the thinnest veneer of generalization.



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