315 - All Donks in the House and Senate combined
Posted on 09/23/2010 11:58:18 AM PDT by American Dream 246
Wow, people should call the congress critters who passed this stupidity to come clean up the mercury mess.
Wassamatter? Don’t you think that congress critters know exactly how to run your life? Have they not already determined the size of showerhead and water supply tank for your toilet you’re allowed to have? (Pretty soon they’ll tell you how many dumps you make take per day.) Aren’t you happy that your welfare is constantly on their minds?
Just think how bewildering our parents’ lives must have been without the benign guidance of the geniuses in Congress.
There fixed it.
I have twice bought those light bulbs and at had one of them in the package already broken when I opened it. That and the fact that I didn’t find they actually last any longer (my house was built in 1940 so the fixtures weren’t made for those anyway) and the fact that I have a 20 month old son and I am back to buying the cheap domed bulbs where I can get a 12 pack at the Dollar General for less money than a two pack of the spiral bulbs.
LED bulbs are the answer, although the “bulb” version is relatively expensive at $20-$30 each, rather than the “directional” LEDs that are great in flashlights or spot lights, and security lights.
Rep. Joe Burton intoduced legislation this month to do just that. Time to start complaining loudly.
This time it really is Bush´s fault.
Lessee... 5 mg per bulb means 200 bulbs for each gram of Hg. And there's 28.3 grams in an ounce, so it's roughly 5660 bulbs per ounce. A million bulbs would contain 1000000/5660 ounces, which is about 176.7 ounces, or 11 pounds of mercury. It's a bit more than you suggested, but not life-on-Earth threatening.
I still agree with your conclusion after having played with many pools of mercury from thermometers and science class beakers.
Someone else, kindly check MY math.
“...and [last] up to 10 times longer.”
Bunk. I can buy four incadescent bulbs for $2.00 or one cfl for $4.00.
The CFL bulbs will last, from my experience twice as long as a regular bulb, not 10 times longer.
So it will cost me $2.00 for four bulbs, or $8.00 for two CFL bulbs for which I get the same ammunt of light.
Besides, the CFL bulbs gives the wife headaches.
I have one cfl bulb out now, I am just too lazy to get it replaced just now. The burned out bulb will go in the common trash so as to pollute the garbage dump.
I remember seeing on the local TV news a few years ago that, when somebody dropped a mercury thermometer on a city street they closed the street for a few days while the guys in the moon suits cleaned up the spill.
While, on the surface, this is farcical, consider the fact that (this is just a guess, but I'm probably close to the mark), the cleanup company is charging in the neighborhood of $100 per hour for each moonsuit guy and paying him minimum wadge. Just another racket to get rich at the expense o the taxpaying citizen.
How many congressmen does it take to screw UP a light bulb?
1/2 ???
***I wonder if HAZMAT has in fact ever been called out for a cleanup. Not that reporters would report it, it would interfere with their night jobs of Democrat Propagandist.***
If one thousand people charged Capitol Hill and each person busted one CFL bulb on the capitol steps you might see some action!
Just to be clear, that 5 MILLIgrams per CFL, not MICROgrams
SO you are correct at 10e-3, not 10e-6; that was my error.
But the result/effect is the same.
We do worse things to the environment with all the energizers we put in the kitchen trash.
I’ll forward that to all the people in China who are going to get Mad Hatter’s Disease from making them and the people that get it from drinking the water downstream from the factory.
LOL
“A million bulbs would contain 1000000/5660 ounces, which is about 176.7 ounces, or 11 pounds of mercury. It’s a bit more than you suggested, but not life-on-Earth threatening.”
So renaming this thread “How many congressionally-approved light bulbs does it take to screw your kids?” may not make much sense.
The sad followers are going to the 10-10-10 that has some positive environment activities going on—recycling, cleaning up, etc....but ruined with AGW propaganda.
It's very creepy to me. It feels like 1984 meets Germany in the 1930’s to see people with the 10-10-10 shirts on.
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