On 03/03/2012 22:12, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
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H. writes:
I see a few places are stocking 100W incandescent bulbs again.

I thought they had been banned under EU regs.

Personally I welcome them. They are brighter than their "equivalents".
Instant on, and a hell of a lot cheaper now the subsidies have
rendered the so called more efficient lamps so expensive.

I don't know if it's been fixed, but the UK Act which brought this
EU directive into UK law was rushed, hence faulty, and unenforcible.

Secondly, lots of companies stockpiled 100W (and most other)
filament lamps in the UK, thinking there would be a large demand,
but actually there isn't, so there's years worth stockpiled.
The law (even if it had worked) only outlawed manufacture and
import, not selling what's already here.

Being sold at a large mark up though.


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