New Remy Video to Debut Tonight, Nick Gillespie to Appear on Fox Business' Stossel Show, 10pm ET!

We're excited to announce that a brand-new music video by international Internet sensation Remy will debut tonight on a very special (to us!) episode of Stossel.

The video is called "Missing You: The Incandescent Light Bulb Song" and it pays homage to the soon-to-departed 100-watt light bulb.

Starting in January 2012, such bulbs will no longer be available. By 2014 all conventional incandescent light bulbs will have effectively been declared verboten, to be replaced by much-more expensive products that have demonstrably failed to capture market share when consumers have a choice.

Stossel is hosted by news legend John Stossel and airs on Fox Business at 10pm ET on Thursday nights; it is rebroadcast on Saturday and Sunday night at 9pm ET. Tonight's episode explores the unintended consequences of all sorts of government policies and I will be in the studio discussing how the light bulb ban is both an incursion into consumer freedom and unlikely to lead to significant reductions in energy use or greenhouse gas emissions. Other guests include budget expert Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, the libertarian-leaning Republican presidential candidate. For more details about the show, go here.

For more information on Remy, go to his website here.

Watch all of Remy's Reason videos - including the classics "The Occupy Wall Street Protest Song," "Raise the Debt Ceiling Rap," "Do the TSA Pokey Pokey," and "Why They Fought" - by clicking on the playlist below.

Comments

[Tim]

Repubs won big in 2010 and they still wouldn't/couldn't save the lightbulb.

[Fist of Etiquette]

For the record, I planned to watch tonight's episode even without these added amenities. That makes me better than all of you who are going to watch only for the music video, like it's the MTV that the kids are hooked on these days.

[Tim]

I saw a man on the TV, he said the kids are hooked on arsenic apple juice. It makes them rape their teachers.

[Episiarch]

It's not just the kids, dude. Man, I love that arsenic apple juice.

[Tim]

They download it from the internet.

[Question?]

Okay, I was out of the country when this law got passed. I've bought tons of lightbulbs; do I go to jail if I sell them to anyone?

[NewWorldDan]

No, you go to jail if you manufacture them. Anything manufactured up until the cut off date can still be sold.

[Not]

you go to jail if you manufacture them

Citation?

[Canman]

Mabe they could be sold as heaters. They're sometimes used in old nonworking refrigeraters to keep welding rods warm.

[NewWorldDan]

I have used them as heaters. My garage workshop at my last house had 12 lights populated by 100 watt bulbs. Not only was it nice and bright in there, but it really helped the heater keep up in January.

[NewWorldDan]

I flat out hate CFL bulbs. On the other hand, I've been relatively pleased with the few LED bulbs I've tried. I've never found anything that matches the color balance of an incandescent.

In any event, I've bought abuot a 3-5 year supply of incandescent bulbs which will hopefully last me until LED bulbs become economical.

[R C Dean]

I need to stock up. The CFLs are tolerable for area lighting, I guess, but my reading lights have to be incandescent, and I've only got about a dozen bulbs for them.

[Funny Guy]

a brand-new music video by international Internet sensation Remy will debut tonight

Tonight? Then I still have time to kill myself first?

[Fist of Etiquette]

This seems suspiciously like a repeat.

[Fist of Etiquette]

There's Paul Ryan standing at the bottom of the Bunny Slope.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Wait a minute, Paul Ryan is in the Fox Biz studio, Stossel is in the Fox Biz studio, but they're doing a remote interview. Is one of them in a parallel universe?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Stossel complaining that Ryan isn't ruthless enough.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Did Stoss just dig on Ryan's scheme and its unintended consequences?

[Bee Tagger]

Remy's future is so bright...

[Fist of Etiquette]

Damn, I need to get at and buy a shitload of 100 watters.

[Bee Tagger]

is stossel implying that nick is to the right of him politically by switching sides at the table?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Nick didn't like being called stupid.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Regulators and environmentalists have been trying to do popular things all this time?

[Fist of Etiquette]

That's it for Gillespie? Give me a break!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Theismann won a free bottle of Super Beta Prostate in a billiards game?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Reason ad in tha house.

[Fist of Etiquette]

He won in a state normally voting Dem? RHINO ALERT!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Maybe it's because Johnson is apparently smaller than a quarter.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Maybe Johnson is polling so badly because he apparently has terrible judgement.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Third party? Advance the debate and advance Obama to a second term.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Ton of commericials tonight. Gillespie and Johnson must have been expensive.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Gompers!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Only 36% of government workers are unionized? Interesting.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Spoiler alert! New administration.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Greek riot. And not the good kind.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Hanna looks differently beautiful than I remember. Sounds just a pretty, though.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I Danny doing his interview in a cafeteria?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Europe likes large fonts?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Obama kept picking at the planet's scab.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Stossel the optimist.

[lighthouse]

Good interview Nick (see the later Reason.com post linking to it)

For anyone interested, regulation updates, including the announced
Canada delay to 2014, and the repeal ban bills in 7 US States
(legislated Texas) http://ceolas.net/#li01inx

Re Remy song, particularly ironic that 100 Watt bulbs are first to be banned:
Since low cost brightness is particularly difficult and expensive with the main pushed CFL or LED alternatives,
and the heat given off is not necessarily wasted.