Posted on 12/23/2011 4:32:02 AM PST by IBD editorial writer
The EPA thinks it's worth spending billions of dollars each year to reduce already minuscule amounts of mercury in the outside air. So why is it trying to shove mercury-laced fluorescent bulbs into everyone's homes?
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Much worse than that... I can remember mercury switches in thermostats... And "playing" with mercury. Wow, maybe I'm dead and don't realize it :)
Only the EPA could jam CFLs down our throats and then publish a 3 page guide detailing the hazmat clean up procedure should one break.
The EPA is playing an out sized role in nobama's plan for a turd-world country with him as king.
I’m in my later years now. As a child in the 50’s our dentist gaves us vials of mercury to play with at home. He got the mercury from processing the fillings material. We would make silver coins shiny, play with the stuff interminably and leave the open vials in our rooms when we weren’t playing with the stuff. I’m still here...no effects so far (fingers crossed). I think the EPA is overreacting a lot with an interest in advancing their control and influence.
I’m in my later years now. As a child in the 50’s our dentist gave us vials of mercury to play with at home. He got the mercury from processing the fillings material. We would make silver coins shiny, play with the stuff interminably and leave the open vials in our rooms when we weren’t playing with the stuff. I’m still here...no effects so far (fingers crossed). I think the EPA is overreacting a lot with an interest in advancing their control and influence.
Yes, and I remember when the stuff used to show up in the home now and then and we called it quicksilver. We'd take it and toss it from hand to hand and enjoyed the way it'd separate and come back together.
Not sure what it was used for, but mercury could be had easily a few decades back and no one became ill after playing with it.
I’ve bought various brands and none are working very well...When I heard of this ridiculous ban, I immediately applied for a grant to measure the eye degradation from the years 1960 to 2050. I asked for 20 million for expenses. So far I’ve not heard from the gubbmint. They don’t care about the “chirruns”, I guess.
Best answer yet!
And Merry Christmas to you as well!
That’s what I’d like to know.
Amalgam (silver) fillings are 50 percent mercury. If you have silver fillings, you have had mercury in your mouth...and no government agency seems too alarmed. Although many dentists have transitioned to only composite fillings once the mercury issue started being discussed.
Environmentalists are stupid and cause more damage than they prevent.
Lets make a list!
You provided two: MTBE and sterilizing Alaskan beaches.
I'll add two: Wind mills kill condors, eagles and other endangered species you would go to prison over if you even dared to touch their fallen feathers.
Criminalizing fire breaks and the removal of tinder which now results in profoundly wild and devastating fires immolating untold numbers of wildlife and burning up "old growth hardwoods".
Win-win!
If people want these CFL lights in the marketplace as an alternative to make their homes more energy efficient, then I think is is fine and would never say boo to anyone so inclined.
When the CFL bulbs first came onto the market, my parents were early adopters...for some lamps. Their complaint was that the quality of the light was inferior because the spectrum output was so different from the "regular" light bulbs.
Then I heard an eco-tard say that you can get florescent lights with a spectrum output that mimics the sun in the afternoon (so-called 5000-K). The problem is that the colors of the furniture in our house were selected in incandescent lighting, not florescent.
What those eco-tards also forget is that the light from a CFL is not a steady light, but flickers at 120 Hz. For most people, that's not a problem. For some, though, it causes headaches and other problems. (It's why those people don't watch movies -- the double-shutter frame rate of 48 Hz isn't fast enough. TV's flicker is filtered by the reaction time of the phosphors or the LED shutters, so people sensitive to flicker can watch TV just fine.)
As for life, I've got a pile of those damn squiggly-bulbs waiting to go to Home Depot for the bulb recycling bin. Included in that pile is one, count 'em one, LED bulb that burned continuously for more than a year and a half.
EPA wants to tax your farts.
Somewhere someone wants to sell you tax credits so you can fart.
I used to “play” with it. We’d buy it at the local drug store and it would be in a little bottle with a cork. You could get it out and run it around on you hand, etc. This is pure greenie BS ... I’m 70 years old, mercury didn’t bother me!
“Somewhere someone wants to sell you tax credits so you can fart.”
Uh oh. If I have to buy carbon credits to break wind, I’ll explode.
“Of course their goal isn’t reducing mercury, but shutting down inexpensive coal-fired power plants.”
I wouldn’t expect it from Romney (if he’s the candidate), but candidate Gingrich (if he makes it that far) should start speaking of a “Coal Renaissance” under his administration, and a complete rollback of EVERY piece of anti-energy legislation and regulation that has been enacted during the Obama debacle.
Interesting. I mentioned that I thought the life of those things was lousy, and I had a bunch burn out. When I mentioned this on FR, there were a couple of people who poo-poohed me...
There we switched to mercurichrome sp???? Killed germs.
Then went to peroxide because it was fun to see it bubble.
Now??? Spit and a bandaid....
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