Posted on 09/26/2010 9:29:12 PM PDT by Nachum
Winchester, Va. - On Thursday night -- sometime around 8 o'clock -- 130 years after Thomas Edison commercialized the incandescent light bulb, Dwayne Madigan helped make the last such bulb Edison's company, General Electric, would make in the United States. (Snip) GE supported the regulations. Many Winchester workers, noting that the CFLs are made in China by lower-wage workers, say GE wanted to force the higher profit-margin bulbs on consumers, and Winchester is collateral damage.
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And CFL’s are hazardous waste once the no longer work or break, due to their mercury content.
Liberals are literally trying to drive us into the dark ages.
Corporatism is indeed evil. The government should not be in a position to muck with business. If they are, one should not be surprised that corporations will want to influence how, at great expense (but at less expense than if they don’t try to alter the rules). Campaign finance reform is and will always be a failure because it fights the symptom, not the cause, of the problem.
Just wait until parents of small children blame the noxious gas and mercury emitted from a broken CFL on health hazards. How many parents don’t have kids that have broken a lamp bulb at some point. We had one break when a wind gust blew a lamp over in a guest room. Thankfully, the windows were already open (hence the gust) but you still have to deal with the mercury and disposal.
Not to mention large investments in the carbon trading ‘climate change’ scheme. That’s where the sustainable profits are and control over the dumbed down population. I think that they played their hand to soon.
Thomas Edison is no doubt rolling in his grave.
GE, one a great US company, has become a POS.
GE and the Obama regime’s relationship should be one of the first congressional hearings the Republican controlled HOUSE should hold, say Jan. 21, 2011
Liberalism needs to be approached with the same anger as Jihadists and Drug Cartels, the mortal enemy.
They want us broke, unarmed and hungry, then dead, at their whim via abortion, shabby healthcare or euthanasia.
I cannot stand Liberals in any form, they are meaningless POS’s.
The old cleanup rules have been backed down to where it’s now deemed OK to vacuum the debris (before, you might as well call your local Hazmat team). Which is what people did for years with the older fluorescent tubes when they broke, and those had even more mercury. The amount of mercury that gets out is infinitesimal unless living in a hermetically sealed house.
In about 5 or 10 years, I'm willing to wager that epidemiologists will be able to show clearly a direct correlation between mercury exposure from intact compact fluorescent tubes (aka bulbs) in home and office use, and toxicity to unborn, newborn children and other neurologically susceptible groups.
And I really, really hate being right about these kinds of things.
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They also give off wavelengths that upset parkenson type diseases. This was another horrible idea to worship the earth.
Pray for America
Just as laws aimed at curtailing illegal immigration does not deal with the source of the problem & the companies who hire them at low wages.
Does crony capitalism come to mind?
LED based bulbs are going to replace CFLs in the very near future. Greater lumens per watt and much longer lifespan. In fact some new lighting will be built directly into building components with no need to ever replace it.
Anyone else out there stocked up yet with a lifetime supply of the incandescents? Get ‘em while you can!
You have a point there, but I think one of the reasons that Canada has been moving in a conservative direction is a direct result of the reforms made here; about 6 years ago the government banned contributions from corporations and unions, and the result has been that the Conservative Party has led the pack in fundraising.
Corporater America. Dump on the workers in favor or profit by moving jobs overseas.
I’ll tell you what’s going to happen. It’s going to be like asbestos.
You are not going to hear anything for a while on how toxic and dangerous these bulbs are - they have to sit on this until business is really divested of these factories.
However, one day, suddenly, you are going to see some huge banner headlines about the CATASTROPHE being wreaked on the environment UNEXPECTEDLY by all these toxic metals in our landfills, children being poisoned, etc.
Congress will hold hearings. “It’s for the children! Whose fault is it! Evil corporations!” Yadda, yadda. And Congress will suddenly find it necessary to earmark BILLIONS for cleanup, for some well connected, lobbyist firm. Maybe even owned by Waxman or Boxer....but I guarantee whoever gets the cash, they will have ties to super green politicians.
Because that’s what these people do. They create the hell, and invest in where the government cleanup money will go. What absolute criminals these folk are.
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