Traditional Lightbulbs Ban

[StuartG]

Traditional lightbulbs have been banned(slowly and silently) or "phased out" as the eco-fascists in the illegal E.U. would say. As bureaucrats in another land take hold of our nation, now with some resistance becoming more visible we can see control, limitation of choice and dependency as the end result.
They won’t tell you the problems you may get if the E.U. have their way on this. A couple of months ago I wrote down some notes (on the youtube video linked below) of a video presentation given by Rep. Ted Poe R-Texas on the hazards of using these new CFL’s or compact flourescent bulbs. I can’t see myself ever using these ugly things and it is important that this gets out to as many people as possible. Made in China? What? Can’t the USA make it’s own(traditional light bulbs?)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=e-LOtKIIKcg

http://www.prisonplanet.com/traditio...ned-by-eu.html

P.S. I will look into the copyright on this youtube video and if there is a copyright restriction on written text script then I will leave it as a link (as the video is not very long).

[StuartG]

I’ve gone to the credit link website at the end of this article which I have decided to post. I couldn’t find any e-mail contact and registering with that site (which I did) didn’t get me closer to making contact and I ended going down one maze after another. There was no copyright notice on the video only www.cspanjunkie.org as an end credit which I have tagged at the end of the text. You could always DELETE this post anyway. Here is the text of the audio (between square brackets). Hope the owner doesn’t mind:

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT ENERGY SAVER LIGHT BULBS!

VIDEO:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=e-LOtKIIKcg

TEXT:

[U.S.HOUSE
REP. TED POE R-TEXAS, 2ND DISTRICT, HUMBLE BEAUMONT.
"Congress passed an energy bill which should have been called the Anti-American Non-energy Bill because it punishes Americans for using energy rather than finding new sources of affordable energy. But the bill does one thing madam speaker, it controls the type of light bulbs that all Americans must use throughout our fruited plains. Congress' energy bill bans incandescent light bulbs by 2014 and requires Americans to buy compact flourescent bulbs. Those are called CFL's. Now we can say goodbye to Thomas Edison's incandescent bulb and his invention. Madam speaker, I have a constitution here, and like most members of Congress I carry it with me. I've read it through and through, but I don't see anywhere in the U.S. constitution that it gives the government the power to control the type of light bulbs used in Dime Box, Texas or any other place in the United States. Besides the lack of constitutional authority let me discuss these light bulbs further. Nothing in congress seems to be easy and that phrase is certainly true with the CFL lightbulbs. These lightbulbs contain mercury, so they have to be disposed of in a certain way. According to EPA rules you're supposed to take them to the local recycling centre. Thanks to congress nothing is easy. If you throw them out at home, you're supposed to seal the bulb in two plastic bags and place them in the outside trash, otherwise the bulb may break and pollute the landfill of all things. CFL's are made of glass so they're fragile. If one breaks it or drops it you have to follow simple rules thanks to congress and according to the EPA here's what you do if you break one of these light bulbs. And I quote, 'Have people and pets leave the room and don't let anyone walk through the area. They must evacuate the room.' Madam speaker I continue, '...open a window and leave the room for fifteen minutes or more. Shut off the central heating and air conditioning system. Carefully scoop up glass fragments and powder using stiff paper or cardboard and place them in a glass jar with a metal lid.' Obviously that's readily available. I continue, 'Use sticky tape such as duct tape to pick up any remaining small glass fragments and powder.' Of course we do have lots of duct tape in Texas so that's no problem.
But were not through yet . I continue to quote... 'wipe the area clean with a damp paper towel or disposable wet wipes and place them in the glass jar or plastic bag. Do not use a vacuum or a broom.' And madam speaker I ask unanimous consent to file this three page single spaced requirement to EPA has made all Americans follow and disposing one of these broken light bulbs... If you break a light bulb in a high rise where the windows don't open, will the EPA light bulb police haul us off to jail because of improper disposal procedures? If I drop this light bulb we would have to evacuate the House of Representatives according to the EPA light bulb law. Have we gone a bit too far with this nonsense? Thanks to congress we are making what is simple very difficult and besides these lightbulbs are expensive and using them may fade photographs on the wall. Now madam speaker I am going to carefully remove one of these light bulbs from a box that contains all these warnings on the outside, and this is one of those CFL lightbulbs that congress is requiring all Americans to use by 2014. There is more to the requirements of using these. It says here, and I quote... 'These lightbulbs may cause interference to radios, televisions, wireless telephones and remote controls.' Now we're in trouble for Monday night football because we're going to have to turn out the lights so there is no interference with our TV. We can also thank Congress for giving more money to China. This light bulb, it says right here with all the warnings on it, is "Made in China". And madam speaker, they are ONLY made in China. They're not made in the United States. We import every one of these things. You know over the past year we've seen Chinese pet food kill our dogs and cats. Chinese lead paint is poisoning our children and now Chinese light bulbs that contain mercury can be harmful to our health. Doesn't this bother anybody? Meanwhile gasoline nears $4 a gallon and congress still has no energy plan except 'turn on these light bulbs'. Oh, I yearned for the day when America took care of Americans by developing our own abundant natural resources like coal and natural gas and crude oil to provide affordable energy to America. But those days have gone the way of Edison's incandescent light bulb. We might as well turn out the lights. The party's over, and that's just the way it is..."
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[StuartG]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090830/...t-45dbed5.html

And what about those Hi-Fi’s, mind deadening T.V. sets and computer games? I’m sure they use more energy. And they’re on most of the time. There is no mention of the government talking about reducing the use of any of those. Oh but we need to keep the sheeple stuck to the T.V. soaps, sport and BBC news brainwashing, eh?

Instead of banning light bulbs why don’t the government ask us to cut the usage of traditional bulbs to, say, 50 per cent?

[StuartG]

NEW CFL LIGHTBULBS:BAD FOR HEALTH

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/he...f-Britons.html