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Obama launches bogus TV campaign to save CFL bulbs

They are full of Mercury! Imagine that when it gets in the water tables of the USA!!

House Republican efforts to repeal the looming incandescent bulb ban

Obama launches bogus TV campaign to save CFL bulbs

- Steve Milloy Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Can you really buy a flat screen TV with the money you supposedly save with CFL light bulbs?

The Department of Energy is sponsoring Ad Council ads to promote CFL light bulbs. Coming on the heels of House Republican efforts to repeal the looming incandescent bulb ban, one of the ads features a couple throwing over a cliff stuff (like a flat screen TV) that they allegedly could have bought with the money saved by CFLs.

But as pointed out by Energy and Environment News,

DOE says upgrading 15 traditional incandescent bulbs to efficient options could save households about $50 a year in energy costs.

I don’t know whether President Obama or Nobel Prize-winning Energy Secretary Steven Chu have been to a store recently but $50 won’t buy too many TVs or much else of significance.

Moreover, the energy savings of CFLs have been significantly exaggerated as California utility PG&E recently learned.

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/38647

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Comment by Sandra on July 20, 2011 at 6:59pm: Can you imagine that mercury getting into our water supply via the trash dump, thousands of bulbs broken and realising that crap. Mercury is illegal to use in the USA for any manufacturing product, guess China selling there junk is more important than our health and our children's health! You should be screeming at your Congress and Senate critter, I sure have...