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To: wagglebee
if every house was just using one or two of these lightbulbs it would have the equivalent of taking eight million cars off the road every day. I figure enough people will do this that I won't have to sacrifice on either side.

I am not seeing a connection between an internal combustion engine and an incandescent light bulb. Help? How does changing electric light bulbs equate to petrol vehicles?

4 posted on 03/22/2006 5:54:14 PM PST by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: RedBloodedAmerican
I am not seeing a connection between an internal combustion engine and an incandescent light bulb. Help? How does changing electric light bulbs equate to petrol vehicles?

Power plants burn fuel to create electricity. Often that fuel is coal, which causes pollution, just like the internal combustion engine. Different inputs at different points.

Somebody needs to run the numbers of Ms. David's claims. The numbers just seem out of whack.

If the Dodge SRT truck is there, why isn't the Dodge Viper? A ten cylinder engine and it doesn't make the list? What the devil am I saving for if I can't have one of the top ten meanest myself?

29 posted on 03/22/2006 6:29:56 PM PST by Draco
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To: RedBloodedAmerican
Help? How does changing electric light bulbs equate to petrol vehicles?

There are many oil-fired generating plants in the US.

You know the book Cultural Literacy?

You might think about picking up a copy...

41 posted on 03/22/2006 7:25:19 PM PST by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
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