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Andy Burns wrote:
Dave Plowman wrote:

I'd suggest to read up about the reasons behind such legislation.
Rather than making up your own.

Are you suggesting that saving a few hundred watts for a few minutes
per month is distinguishable from noise in the 2750 TWh EU electricity
budget?

I'd even agree that lighting is a worthwhile target, but that maybe
they pushed it a few years too early, how many subsidised CFLs lurk in
the backs of cupboards when decent LEDs were only a few years down the
track?


Hindsight is a wonderful thing. More to the point, why should we reduce
energy consumption?

presumably because creating energy has costs to the environment

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from KT24 in Surrey, England