[bruinbirdman]

Does anyone other than ChiComs make CFL bulbs?

[saganite]

Nope. Not now anyway. Looks like a fine subsidy to China. Time to stock up on incandescent bulbs?

[Paleo Conservative]

Just how are they going to get the word out that it is a bad idea to just throw away burnt out CFL “bulbs” in trash that ends up in land fills? Fluorescent tubes contain significant amounts of mercury.

[I see my hands]

Cool! Big bucks to be made in the incandescent black market.

Edison, Edison, who's looking for some Edison? Got some nice Alva grade here. Full vacuum.

[DB]

Really?

What are they going to do about headlights in cars?

Or virtually anything with dimmers?

Or how about all those chandeliers that take candelabra base bulbs?

Another mess brought to you by big brother...

[dighton]

But there is a price for consumers because CFLs are more expensive and require more energy to make.

A point too seldom made.

Environmental panic feeds on crooked or negligent accounting.

[TomMore]

2050: 67, wearied by the off-color dim, iraqi war vet tom smith opens the box from the back of the closet. three left. only three. just three. but, 150 watts. 150 watts! one hundred and F I F T Y WATTS of 2007 light! bright light. real light. light! tom draws the shades, pulls the chain, and the room glows again, for a time.

[Dumpster Baby]

WER IN UR HOUZ CHANGIN UR LAT BUBZ

[Captainpaintball]

This is ridiculous. The mercury in these things will pollute the planet far more than the god damned C02 emissons. Not to mention the risk on the personal level if they happen to break. Go to LED bulbs.

THIS is the age of stupidity.

[Just Lori]

The Government calculates that if every British household were to replace three 60 or 100 watt light bulbs with CFLs the energy saving would be greater than the power used by the country's entire street lighting network.

So THE GOVERNMENT decides what kind of lightbulb you can make...or buy? What's next? They're going to choose what kind of underwear or deodarent you can make or buy? The governments of "free" nations are telling "free people" that we have no right to decide much of anything for ourselves anymore.

And the frog still doesn't feel the heat.....

[knarf]

"Mr Benn said he wanted to see similar cooperation from manufacturers in phasing out energy-wasting televisions."

And those pesky computers with their ability to access truth in a nonosecond ...

[L.N. Smithee]

This is all going to be very amusing when the history of global warming hysteria is written in the same book that contains the “Population Explosion,” swine flu, and Y2K.

[NewHampshireDuo]

Let’s see, I guess that I’ll have to clear an area beside my ammo stock to squirrel away 20 yrs worth of incandescent bulbs.

[agere_contra]

I live in the UK and I’ve been using CFLs for years. They’re excellent, and I’ve only had to replace one (to date).

But mandating that incandescents not be used is bloody silly. Government has no place intervening in the market.

[steelyourfaith]

ping

[Jim Noble]

require more energy to make

And generate toxic waste.

How much more of this AGW stupidity can we stand?