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Now, I hesitate to write so soon again about another government entity seeking to outlaw the sale of incandescent light bulbs, er…”globes” (because we’re talking about Australia here, which is not only a different country, just like California, but, for the geographically uninitiated is even its own continent). I think the next time Australia gets lip from anyone, they should just say: “Does your country cover an entire continent. No, I didn’t think so.” That should end most discussions.

So the government (the same government that didn’t ratify the Kyoto Protocol) of this powerful country that covers an entire continent has decreed that by 2010 the sale of incandescent light bulbs will be outlawed within its watery borders. Wow! A whole continent banning the sale of an energy waster. Take that, California! California with its insignificant 37 million people is always thinking it’s so important and such a trendsetter. Oh, lookie here, our Austrian governor drives a Hummer that runs on hydrogen - see how practical we are? Well, in 2010, none of Australia’s 20.6 million residents will be able to legally purchase an incandescent bulb. Um…what? That raft of a country only has 20.6 million people living in it? Well, no matter: all that empty land can be used to set up secret light bulb black markets in the Outback. I’m sure the energy police can’t cover every square kilometer - and imagine the fuel they would waste if they tried. I’m sure New Zealand’s smuggling community is already licking their collective lips, too, and outfitting their fast, fuel slurping boats to handle the fragile cargo.