People miss the point with this whole discussion. Essentially there is no viable replacement for the incandescent bulb. The CFL bulbs being forced upon us are a serious environmental hazard. This has been stated by the EPA. They are more of a concern than the coal plants the EPA is shutting down.
The problem is that GE produces the new bulbs in China, at great profit, and Obama wants to shut down coal to support GE’s Green companies. It is all politics.
Once the incandescent bulbs are gone Congress will probably require a large deposit on the new bulbs to assure they are disposed of properly. I wonder if GE will handle disposal also.
A surge in coal exports from the port of Baltimore has turned the Chesapeake Bay into a maritime parking lot.
Demand from China, India and other countries for high-priced metallurgic coal to fuel steel production has grown so strong that ships are backed up south of the bridge waiting to gain a berth at one of Baltimore's two coal terminals.
To Helen Delich Bentley, the former congresswoman and federal maritime commissioner for whom the port of Baltimore is named, the vessels are reminiscent of the city's shipping heyday in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
"It's kind of like the old days when we had ships waiting in the bay for their turn at the pier," said Bentley, now a maritime industry consultant. [end excerpt]