[Cracker Jack]

This is one more news item I don’t expect to find covered by the US state-controlled media.

[yldstrk]

Great

And the last US light bulb factory is closed

[max americana]

>>They should not be used in unventilated areas and definitely not in the proximity of the head.”

[marstegreg]

Hey, Thats A LOT worse than those asthma causing coal plants!! How come he doesn’t bring that up in his town halls?

[Robert357]

So do you think that the politically correct Greenies really think about this kind of thing?

Look at the chemicals and rare earths that go into the manufacture of “pollution-free electric car” batteries, or the process that produces some kinds of solar photovoltaic cells.

Life is full of trade-offs. The politically correct are always in search of either a technological “silver bullet” that is all benefit with not problems (which doesn't usually exist) or doing without as a modern form of puritanical self-denial.

The “Electric Power Conservation movement” is the perfect marriage of these two groups. 30 years ago their spokesman at the time, Amory Lovins said that “...giving people a cheap source of electricity was the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.”

In my opinion for most people, low energy use light bulbs aren't about saving energy, they are about looking politically correct and feeling good about “doing something for the environment.”

I love irony

[blam]

I bought a lifetime supply of incandessent bulbs two years ago.

[Buckeye McFrog]

which means we are just seconds away from our parasite lawyah class turning on them

[The_Repugnant_Conservative]

I will place that warning right next to the Lead warning CA mandates on PVC power-cords. The computer you are using will emit far more of these same chemicals than a CFL.

[WOBBLY BOB]

Reddy Kilowatt's new name is Reddy Killalot.

[Mama Shawna]

Thank you for the link. Posted it to my facebook page, with an added comment about the mercury content, and that I saw one of these bulbs at the dump, still in the lamp that was being thrown away. How much of this is going on already? I’ll go to kerosene and candles before I buy these crappy ass bulbs. Or just a good old flashlight with those REALLY bright LEDS. Those things are amazing.

[thethirddegree]

I hope Obama uses these to read by.

[FES0844]

Just wondering....how come the sanitation union isn’t up in arms about this?????

[frposty]

Could someone explain the difference in chemical makeup between an ordinary fluorescent light that has been in wide use for more than 50 years and a compact fluorescent light? The chemical makeup of the fluorescent light must include the ballast.

[Fresh Wind]

Electrical smog? WTF?