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To: itsahoot; 1Old Pro
"...without the drawbacks, including higher initial cost..."

I believe you are missing the point of the original ban. It was not efficiency or the environment, it was profit margins too low for GE, Westinghouse and Sylvania to compete with Chinese imports. No new bulb will be produced that does not include a fat profit.

119 posted on 04/26/2016 5:41:02 PM PDT by Da Bilge Troll (Defeatism is not a winning strategy!)
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To: Da Bilge Troll
I believe you are missing the point of the original ban. It was not efficiency or the environment, it was profit margins too low for GE, Westinghouse and Sylvania to compete with Chinese imports.

I was responding to the $30.00 price claim which was not supported in the article.

120 posted on 04/26/2016 5:43:49 PM PDT by itsahoot (Trump is a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't finish a sentence, but he will finish a term.)
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To: Da Bilge Troll
It was not efficiency or the environment, it was profit margins too low for GE, Westinghouse and Sylvania to compete with Chinese imports.


123 posted on 04/27/2016 4:22:50 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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