Memo this to Jeffrey Immelt and the AnnointedIdiot, along with all those green libtard idiots smoking the idiocy crack pipe of unicorns and rainbow dreams.... =.=
Well obviously we’re going to need a Mercury Reclamation Agency. Think $50 billion would be a fair starting budget?
Is this light bulb thing a United States initiative or a global effort? Will the old light bulb be made for other countries?
The time is fast approaching when the gummit will order all incandescent bulbs taken off the market.
If you haven’t already done so, I would suggest that you invest in several cases of the incandescent bulbs in the wattage sizes you use.
If CFLs had been in use for the past century and incandescent bulbs newly invented, the incandescent bulb would be celebrated as an environmental savior.
You can purchase Mercury Offset Credits from Al Gore.
“They’re promoting them and giving them away, but there’s nowhere to drop them off,” said Tom Tognetti, co-owner of Fredricksen’s Hardware.”
This is why we need more Lefty “intellectuals” running the country. (/sarc)
You can’t buy a “real” thermometer anymore because of mercury concerns, but the oppressive federal government mandates we use billions of mercury filled lightbulbs.
Ping.
Everything liberalism: Generates the exact opposite of its stated intent
I haven't heard a peep from them on this subject.
(....see my tag line......)
Leni
I was changing a burned out compact fluorescent bulb in an outside porch light the other day, and it slipped from my hand and shattered on the ground... right across the street from an elementary school.
Compact Florescent Light bulbs are going to bring big, expensive, trouble to everyone who installs them. A look at the very recent history of the radon gas fiasco shows just how that will happen.
If you want to sell your house in Colorado, you are going to have to get it tested for the colorless, odorless gas called radon. That test will cost several hundred dollars, and needs to be read by a certified reader. If gas is found, and out here it almost always is, radon mitigation systems will need to be installed, starting at about a thousand, going up to many thousands. Then the test needs to be repeated, to make sure that the radon is brought under control.
CFLs will be the same. Do you rent? You will have to increase your deposit to rent. When you leave, you will be forced to ‘prove’ that you didn’t break a bulb during the course of the lease. That will cost you a couple hundred dollars. Did a bulb break while you lived there? Add another $500 or more for the professional to clean it up.
Do you own your own home? To sell your entire house will have to be declared ‘mercury free’ That will cost you several hundred dollars to get that piece of paper. If they find mercury, a profession is going to have to come in and clean it up. For a house, that could very well cost another thousand or more.
Radon gas mitigation is a scam, a racket designed to line the pockets of a few, at the expense of the foolish, and those of us who are caught in the traps mandated by folks who are foolish.
The same is on its way for those who are foolish enough, or rich enough, to use CFLs.
If you can’t afford the processes and costs I’ve outlined above, DON’T USE COMPACT FLORESCENT BULBS!
The Law of Unintended Consequences....ain’t it a bitch!
If 300,000,000 Americans discard 300,000,000 bulbs containing 0.005 grams of mercury every year that would result in 1,500 long tons (called "tonnes") of mercury being released into the environment every year.
Our rulers are buffoons.
I was in Costco with my acupuncturist yesterday and she pointed to the CFLs and said STAY AWAY and go back to the old ones.
GE lobbied to screw us out of perfectly good lightbulbs to enhance their sharholder value and I can’t believe they didn’t think of the secondary market for recycling and reclaiming.
Immelt should go tomorrow for missing the big picture!
Once we get rid of this monstrousity, next is the low flush toilet and low flow shower head.
From the earth, back to earth.