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To: JamesA; All
Just follow the money and you’ll find G.E.

You're absolutely correct.

excerpt:

"Rather than setting off a boom in the U.S. manufacture of replacement lights, the leading replacement lights are compact fluorescents, or CFLs, which are made almost entirely overseas, mostly in China."

Light bulb factory closes; End of era for U.S. means more jobs overseas

38 posted on 03/10/2011 3:30:15 PM PST by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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To: jazusamo

Go to Home Depot or Lowes and stop by the light bulb aisle. There is one name you’ll see on about half the light bulbs.

GE paid for the lobbyists which got the CFL law passed.


40 posted on 03/10/2011 3:37:07 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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