Four Lights

There are four lights! (Star Trek reference)

When it came time to replace the 40-watt bulbs in the bathroom, only the white LED product was available at Home Depot. Because having a mixture of lights was not esthetically pleasing, I removed the incandescents and stored them away.

When the leftmost LED burned out this week, I reached for an incandescent. I had forgotten how much a warmer light changes the mood, and I will go back to the old bulbs now that President Trump's EPA will allow them again, along with the older-standard showers, toilets, washing machines and dishwashers.

(We may not have heard the last word about President Trump's action, because the energy-efficient regulations were based on the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. The Act, in my humble non-lawyerly opinion, does not mandate specific energy criteria for consumer lightbulbs, leaving the details to the Secretary of Energy. Under President Biden consumer incandescents were banned by the Department of Energy, and President Trump's rescinding of the ban is within the latter's authority. Of course, I could be wrong...)