On Apr 30, 12:39*am, Jeff wrote:
John A. Weeks III wrote:





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*Jeff wrote:

John A. Weeks III wrote:
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*Jeff wrote:

* *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?
Its funny you claim that the poster doesn't care about waste. *You
see, you can toss a regular lightbulb into the trash since it is
basically safe. *But the new CF bulbs are hazardous materials that
have to be handled by special licensed contractors. *The contents
of those bulbs can kill you. *Talk about waste...
Mercury CFL myths:

http://howtosaveenergy.blogspot.com/...ury-myths.html

And when you go to this web site, what do you find? *For proper disposal
of a broken CFL bulb, contact your local authority for a community
household hazardous waste collection. *That means to me that the
things are hazardous, otherwise, why call the government to get the
hazardous waste collection people involved?

You seem to have missed the bit that even if a high mercury CFL burst
and all the mercury vaporized in the room, it would still be harmless.



There's always someone making excuses rather than moving forward with
conservation. Same thing with global warming which this is not so
coincidentally linked.

There's always someone posting links to sites that they haven't read
about subjects that they are ignorant of.

Next you are going to tell me that you have never broken a light
bulb in your entire life. *So what happens when a semi-load of
these CF things go off the side of a freeway bridge? *Does it
kill everyone in the whole neighborhood when all the bulbs break?

What happens if a truckload of tuna veers off the road?

Until something better comes along, it's CFLs. Of all the hazards in
life, they rank pretty low.

* *Jeff





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The tuna truckload was then infested with flies that carried diseases
and killed mr weeks neighbors since the dirty mercury filled coal did
not.