In 2019, Gearnews – a website devoted to music equipment – crafted a cleverly-piece April Fools article titled EU To Ban Vacuum Tubes From Jan 1, 2019.

But could this April Fools joke actually come true one day?

The vacuum tube itself is descended from the incandescent light bulb. A vacuum tube contains a filament in an evacuated glass envelope, meaning that all the air has been vacuumed out of the inside of the glass bulb. (This is why it is called a vaccum tube.) When hot, the filament releases electrons into the vacuum in a process called thermionic emission.

Likewise, an incandescent bulb consists of a similar filament which is encased in either a vacuum or an inert gas to protect the filament from oxidation.

As you know, the incandescent bulb has been demonized thanks to the phony climate change movement which is funded by Big Oil conglomerates such as ExxonMobil as well as BP (British Petroleum). You know, the same BP which funded the 1953 ouster of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran?

Vacuum tubes have long been advocated by vintage electronics enthusiasts as well as rock guitarists for the rich, vibrant sound you can get only from tube-powered radios and amps. In fact, rock band Queen has long used tube-based amps in their live concert gear for that very reason.

I own several vintage radios which are tube-powered such as a 1946 RCA Victor 65X! AM radio, a 1948 RCA Victor 8-X-541 AM radio (my first tube radio ever), and a 1967 Zenith Z318M AM/FM radio (AMAZING bass). All three radios sound amazing and have been restored.

However, what if the globalists decide that the new laws banning incandescent light bulbs also apply to vacuum tubes? Will it become illegal to sell unmodified vacuum tube radios? (True, there are some drop-in transistor replacements, but those are exceedingly rare.) Will it become illegal to merely possess a vaccum tube radio? If the latter becomes the case, then vintage radio enthusiasts such as myself, Bryan Tennyson (on YouTube as “radiotvphononut”), Dan Yahro (on YouTube as “Shango066”), and Ron Soyland (on YouTube as “glasslinger”) could find ourselves criminals overnight.