R.I.P. Light Bulb :(

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R.I.P. Light Bulb :(
Authored by: gatorwoman on Thursday, January 02 2014 @ 09:38 AM EST

Would like to share my thoughts about the death of these light bulbs.
No one at the EPA, FDA or any other Government Facility has ever asked me what I thought about this.
I can tell you that I do NOT like it, not one tiny bit.
It feels to me like I am now living in a Communist country,
as this is being forced on me, with no recourse what so ever.
Here are the reasons for my objection.
I have many countries dwelling in my DNA and also some Native Ancestry and apparently one of these, has an issue with these new and in my opinion, dangerous bulbs.
We have had them in our home and I have reacted to them quite badly, getting nasty headaches every single time that they were turned on.
But that is not the most important reason for me to reject them.
What bothers me the most, is that when and if they are broken, you practically need to call a Hazmat team for the Mercury spill clean up.
Why on Earth were these ever approved?
Somewhere, someone is making a fortune on these new bulbs and we are the guinea pigs as to their safety.
Do people really know what is in these new, forced on us bulbs and what they can do to us?
Ten or so years from now, will these new bulbs be our generations agent orange?
They are truly not safe, in my opinion, and something in them makes me sick, so why on earth would I ever want to use them?

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R.I.P. Light Bulb :(
Authored by: masodo on Thursday, January 02 2014 @ 09:26 PM EST

I certainly concur with your sentiments gatorwoman and thank you for offering such a thoughtful comment.

I have always been an advocate for energy conservation but find this whole incandescent vs florescent lighting topic just flat-out wrong-headed. I really don't know the complete story behind the dictate to ban tungsten lightning at the manufacturing/consumer level but find this very disturbing. If a product offers true advantages then, it seems to me the superior product will succeed and the inferior product will fail.

This is nothing less than a slap in the face of free market economics. If this travesty is allowed to stand one can easily imagine other products and services that might be summarily outlawed because of flawed logic and manipulative policy makers. This is just the sort of thing that would have been unimaginable 15 years ago. The take-away here is "get ready - the days of the internal combustion engine are truly numbered" - mark my words.

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Edited For Typos [smiley:;)]

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