[Land-speed] NON-LSR, LIGHT BULB ADVISORY

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Thu Jan 15 17:56:27 MST 2009


Remember "Maybe they are doing it for us!"

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From: "joseph lance" <jolylance at earthlink.net> 

> This is an alert---as you may know Congress has passed a law banning 
> incandescent light bulbs and mandating the use of fluorescents beginning in 
> 2012. 
> 
> I have a lot of flood lamps and track lighting bulbs of various sizes and 
> types on dimmer switches. Some manufacturers are starting to make dimmable 
> fluorescent bulbs but they are very expensive compared to incandescent. 
> 
> So I decided to stock up on incandescent in the sizes and types that I 
> use--but the problem is that some manufacturers are already phasing them out 
> or have stopped manufacturing them. So I had to pay a premium price for some 
> types. As 2012 approaches the supply / price problem will get worse. 
> 
> At the risk of stimulating demand and further price increases, some of you may 
> want to buy a few incandescents soon if you have applications like mine. On 
> the internet "1000Bulbs.com" has low prices. 
> 
> As Will Rogers said "whenever congress pass a law it becomes a joke, and 
> whenever congress makes a joke it becomes a law". So we can expect them to 
> pass additional laws to mandate disposal fees because of the Mercury contained 
> in CFL bulbs which will then require a welfare program to subsidize the 
> purchase of the even more expensive CFLs. 
> 
> You don't have to worry if you are growing Marijuana indoors--those types of 
> incandescents are exempt. 
> 
> Lance 
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