Death date for incandescents in the EU

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  Posted by fred Fri Oct 17, 2008 4:42am PDT

  its good for all you healthy people that do not have a problem with floresent light. but for us few that suffer from seziure disorders ,and that floresent blinking is haszardus, i guess we will have to live out side becaues you all want to be energy efficent.

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  Posted by samsdeal Fri Oct 17, 2008 3:07pm PDT

  Yahoo! Green editor Sam Silverstein here -- your comment caught my eye. I am not an expert on the technology, but I do see a lot of news, and I haven't seen a study yet that connects compact fluorescent light bulbs with migraines. Here is a link to an article that investigates this in more detail: http://green.yahoo.com/blog/climate411/78/dangerous-cfls-don-t-believe-the-hype.html. I hope you find this helpful.

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  Posted by Mustikos Sat Oct 18, 2008 12:07pm PDT

  Either my mother or my father sent me an email of a man in the (i think) house of representatives that went on to argue against typical money grubbing senators about how the U.S. requirement is in 2014, but that those CFL bulbs contain mercury and if one breaks, you need to clear the room of all people and wear a bio-hazzard suit(exaggeration) to clean up the mess, as well 100% of them are made in CHINA. Thanks, US Congress. The American working class appreciates your lack of concern for jobs in the US over the greasing of your own palms. We really need a change in this country. My father built his house in 1981 and in 2 years time uses about a tank of oil (190 gallons) and burns about 2 coords of wood and that's in excess. He actually makes his own biodiesel now and is building a solar kiln for seasoning wood. Gluttony is terrible, and sadly many of those that make decisions for the rest of us, are gluttonous, self centered morons.

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  Posted by AJ Mon Oct 20, 2008 8:42am PDT

  The problem isn't that American jobs are going overseas. The problem is that new jobs aren't being created. Duh. Heaven forbid we find a cheaper way to get goods and services to people, that goes against what America stands for right? Oh wait capitalism IS what America stands for. Blame the policies that don't allow for creation of new jobs, not the ones that send old jobs overseas. As far as this ban, pointless. The planet doesn't care where the pollution comes from. Any cutbacks made in Europe will be more than offset by growth in India and China. We need new technologies that they and we can use, so that we don't need to hinder growth to save the planet. As the article says, CFLs probably aren't the answer.

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  Posted by judyacline Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:04am PDT

  How do we SAFELY discard the new light bulbs? They have Mercury in them. I myself will be buying good old fashioned light bulbs before I can't and stock piling them to keep the enironment safe from Mercury, and to keep Migraines out of my HEAD. Isn't there something better Congress can do than continually support China and all the junk they make????????????????????????????????

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  Posted by baldwrench Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:26pm PDT

  All this rhetoric about CO2 really makes me wonder about the IQ of the average human. 80% of the world's CO2 comes from swamps and wetlands. Yet more and more people are concerned about making more wetlands. I guess to support mosquitoes and west nile virus. The greatest improvement can be made by plants that thrive on CO2 and produce oxygen. Grade school science-photosynthesis- must we as humans feel that we are so intelligent that we must try to out smart ourselves?

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