ERD50
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Now they've done it...
About 80% of the light bulbs in my house are rarely used. I will NOT save money by replacing them with a CFL. And since it takes more natural resources and energy to manufacture a CFL than a plain bulb, the CFL will actually pollute MORE than the plain bulb (in low use applications).
I use CFLs - I put them where I leave lights on for a long time, and no where else. Let me make this decision for myself.
This is as stupid as the CAFE standards - dancing around the edges. If we should use less electricity - then tax it, and let the market and consumers figure out the best ways to conserve it. There are thousands of solutions, not just one hare-brained one.
Argggggg - ERD50
Great (satire). Let's see - the government runs a deficit, I have money in the bank, yet - they think they should tell me how best to invest my money? No thanks. And - Mr Ungar is MOSTLY wrong."In this bill, we ban by 2012 the famously inefficient 100-watt incandescent bulb," said Rep. Jane Harman (D-Venice), who co-sponsored that provision.
... (Lowell Ungar, director of policy at the Alliance to Save Energy,)...
"Consumers spend far more today to run their lightbulbs than they do to buy them," he said. "If you go out now and replace an incandescent bulb with a compact fluorescent, it pays for itself in a few months."
About 80% of the light bulbs in my house are rarely used. I will NOT save money by replacing them with a CFL. And since it takes more natural resources and energy to manufacture a CFL than a plain bulb, the CFL will actually pollute MORE than the plain bulb (in low use applications).
I use CFLs - I put them where I leave lights on for a long time, and no where else. Let me make this decision for myself.
This is as stupid as the CAFE standards - dancing around the edges. If we should use less electricity - then tax it, and let the market and consumers figure out the best ways to conserve it. There are thousands of solutions, not just one hare-brained one.
Argggggg - ERD50