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Jeff[_7_]

krw wrote:
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Dennis M wrote:
In article , Jeff
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Dennis M wrote:
In article , (Don
Klipstein) wrote:

In article , S. Barker wrote:

What's this bs about a ban? I've not kept up with the messages.
A recently enacted piece of USA Federal legislation bans manufacture,
sale and importation of certain incandescent lamps, starting in 2012.
Some (Republican) congresswoman introduced a bill last week to scale back
on that legislation and force Uncle Sam to keep its big nose out of
people's lightbulbs. I hope it goes through.
Why don't you just buy a couple cases of incandescants and keep them
with your 8 tracks. You seem to have missed the spiraling energy costs
and don't seem to care about waste. Well, it's been a great 7 1/2 years
for you hasn't it?
Why don't you eat me, smartass. I use CFL bulbs in my home where they're
warranted, I just want the option to use incandescents in certain
situations also.
You still have that option. Specialty and low wattage lamps are exempt.
There's few places where an edison base lamp couldn't be replaced with
one of the CFLs satisfactorily. It pays to not buy the cheap discount
store CFLs. And as Don pointed out, you can buy the new halogens, which
will certainly fall in price.

I'm not about to use CFLs anywhere I spend any time.

And, why not?

I'm not about
to replace all my fixtures either.

Why would you have to?

A case of bulbs here, and a case
there...

I'd still like to use R12, but the switchover did close the ozone
hole. Remember that?

Oh, good grief!

I suppose you are still questioning evolution? And global warming?

Sometimes you have to do something because it has a far greater benefit.

Someimes you just have to be a good little sheep, eh Komrad?

Look whose calling who a sheep?

Sometimes it pays not to be a sheep and blindly believe all that horse
manure W has been dishing out for the last 7 years. I'd say lemming is a
more appropriate term.

The tungsten light bulb has been around almost 100 years. There's
nothing else we use that comes anywhere near being as inefficient. The
common light bulb rings in at about 5%. It doesn't have great color
rendition unless corrected in which case it has a shorter life or is
even less efficient, it runs up the heat load in summer, it has a
terrible lifespan... The only real advantage it has is that it is cheap.
But not cheap when you consider the lifespan or the energy it uses.

But hey, if you guys love your 100 year old design 100 Watt bulbs. I
don't happen to have your emotional attachment.

Jeff

Jeff

I have a sneaking suspicion the majority of Americans do
too.

Sheep? Evidently...