Had the government just banned the sale of incandescent bulbs? Much like its cousin, the gas stove, the humble light bulb has become a flashpoint in a cultural squabble between environmental regulatory efforts and the very American impulse to do whatever one wants in one’s domicile. (The Biden administration denied trying to ban gas stoves.) The response to the bulb ban was more of a whimper than a battle cry. “Thomas Edison brought the incandescent light bulb to the masses, and in 2023 Joe Biden banned it in America,” officials with the Republican Party of New Mexico wrote in a tweet.

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Persons: “ Thomas Edison, Joe Biden, “, overreach, ” Organizations: EBay, Biden, Republican Party of New Locations: America, Republican Party of New Mexico