The lights are going out in America

Ethel C. Fenig "Meanwhile, while Obama was touting his policies that will bring jobs, jobs and more jobs, especially green ones, over the border in Virginia, the lights were going out. Literally. Because of green jobs.
"Peter Whoriskey of the Washington Post reports on the closure of the last GE factory in the country manufacturing incandescent bulbs throwing 200 middle aged, middle class people out of work. Their chances of finding new jobs are dim."

DARKER SIDE OF INNOVATION: GE closing its last incandescent bulb factory in the U.S. "What made the plant vulnerable is, in part, a 2007 energy conservation measure passed by Congress that set standards essentially banning ordinary incandescents by 2014. The law will force millions of American households to switch to more efficient bulbs.
"The resulting savings in energy and greenhouse-gas emissions are expected to be immense. But the move also had unintended consequences.
"Rather than setting off a boom in the U.S. manufacture of replacement lights, the leading replacement lights are compact fluorescents, or CFLs, which are made almost entirely overseas, mostly in China."