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Graham Murray

(Andrew Gabriel) writes:

The manufacturers are currently pushing the EU to allow them to
remove the power rating from CFL lamps, arguing that it's only
confusing consumers. Not as much as their incorrect claims of
filament lamp equivalency are.

How can a wattage figure on CFLs confuse consumers any more than that on
filament lamps? It would only confuse the consumer if the consumer is
not charged for 1 kwH 'unit' of electricity for every 1000/N hours it is
switched on where N is the advertised wattage. In which case, not only
would it be confusing the consumer but would be mis-description and
therefore contravene the Sale of Goods Act.