[Larry R. Johnson]

You have to just love this stuff. The Greenies want us to use CFL bulbs to stop "Global Warming". They want us to pay pay pay for these bulbs and pay pay pay for the clean-up of all this toxic mercury. And the President and the congress go for both. Oh, Mr. Goldwater...where are you?

[steelyourfaith]

Despite these clean-up and disposal hassles, environmental groups, bulb makers and retailers relentlessly have promoted CFL use as a strategy for reducing electricity consumption and the power plant emissions allegedly causing global warming."

 

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[Former MSM Viewer]

“........Oh, Mr. Goldwater...where are you.....?”

He died with the America I grew up in.

[Tucker39]

Don’t tell anyone, but I have laid in a supply of conventional light bulbs and flood light bulbs, etc. that I think, hope, will carry me along until the intelligent people realize how assinine those fluorescent bulbs are, and the whole damned foolishness fades away.......along with the whole global warming farce.

[BMIC]

You think that’s bad? My electric company sent me two of those toxic light bulbs just before Christmas, totally unsolicited, and planned to make me pay more than market prices for them over the course of the next year via a confusing unexplained “surcharge” on my monthly bill. All wth the blessing of the Maryland Public Utilities Commission.

Fortunately enough of us pitched a fit that the State stepped in and forced them to take that surcharge off of our bills. Now if only they would send a hazmat team out to take the darned toxic light bilbs off of my hands, then maybe I would be happy!

[rlmorel]

I HATE these effing things.

It SUCKS to try to read by their light. This is stupider than the Ethanol boondoggle.

[NonValueAdded]

Just had to replace the lamp in the freezer. Was wondering if I installed a CFC in there yesterday and left the door open, would it have illuminated yet?

[Walmartian]

[Katya]

I’m sooo annoyed at the moment...I went into my warehouse retailer and they had NO regular sixty watt bulbs. I have a weird low volt system from the late 1950’s...it likes to stick and then short out bulbs. No way I can afford to keep buying expensive light bulbs, until I can afford a major overhaul of my system.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Here's what I said on this last May:

"There’s about 5 milligrams of mercury in a CFL bulb (given its density, maybe you could fit it on the head of a pin). Environmentalists are minimizing the importance of this mercury now — because they’re promoting CFL bulbs, and regulations to ban incandescent bulbs. Expect things to change, once everyone is using CFL bulbs & has no choice to revert to incandescents.

Environmentalists will point to the billions of bulbs discarded each year, and demand regulations to prevent the tens of thousands of kilograms of mercury from being discarded willy nilly. We’ll wind up paying to dispose of CFL bulbs at hazardous waste facilities — where the mercury will be meticulously reclaimed. Heavy fines will be imposed on anyone who just tosses a dead bulb in the garbage."

Here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1835838/posts

[Ditto]

Phase two is to double or triple you electric bill with the carbon tax and that will make clean-up of mercury seem a bargain by comparison, not counting all the 'new jobs' created for mercury regulators and private mercury remediation specialists. In the mean time, the trial lawyers make another bundle.

See asbestos.

And you thought those Washington lobbyists were just pretty faces going to cocktail parties. ;~))

Global Warming is the Swiss Army Knife of big government. It can accomplish most any task.

[theBuckwheat]

Given the documented dangers from government sources, it is only a matter of time (especially in the more leftist jurisdictions) when some parent will be charged with “endangering the welfare of a child” for not calling out the local HazMat Emergency Team when they break one of the bulbs on the kitchen floor.

[Oztrich Boy]

For example, you’re not supposed to vacuum breakage or toss used bulbs in household trash.

Lot of things you are not supposed to do

[AZLiberty]

Over Christmas we augmented the lighting in our house with fluorescent lights. Not those wimpy little curly-Q bulbs -- we went with the big, whomping 48-inch manly bulbs. Our kitchen used to be lit by eight 60-watt incandescent bulbs embedded in the ceiling. Even though we were burning plenty of electricity, it seemed like we were living by candlelight. Once they outlawed those 500-watt halogen lamps, we might as well have been living in a cave. Fortunately, there was some space on top of the kitchen cabinets, so I installed four banks of four 32-watt fluorescent tubes.

Let there be light!

Now with about the same energy expenditure, we have what seems like 10 times as much light. I can once again read nutrition labels (even when some idiot package designer puts small black print on a red background).

Our house looks a little different from the outside, too. Instead of the warm, incandescent glow that comes from every other house on the block, our house looks like something out of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", but by gosh we have light.

[Ken H]

Why aren't LED bulbs available that would fit standard light sockets? AFAIK, the CCrane company is the only place that carries them.

They're pretty expensive, but I would think there would be enough demand that companies would be jumping on this market - thus lowering the price. It seems a better way to go than those stupid curly-Q bulbs.

[Yo-Yo]

Have you ever seen a 'rough duty' light bulb, intended for droplights and such? The bulb is coated with a thin layer of plastic that will contain the glass should the bulb get broken.

Why don't they just put a clear plastic shrink wrap over the bulb spiral, and all breakage (and the minute amount of mercury) would be contained in case of a breakage.

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Dim-Bulbs alert...

[Brian S. Fitzgerald]

Just encourage people to use lower wattage incandescents! Sheesh!

[tcrlaf]

THank you!!
Thank you for the applause!

I called this one EXACTLY CORRECT the day they banned the Incandescent lightbulb.

It’s going to be a liability attorney’s worst nightmare...

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Spent fluorescent bulbs will be the MTBE of the 2000s. More folly from the left!

Notice how the Philips commercials urging us to switch bulbs have gone away?

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Does this mean the end of the Easy Bake Oven?