Politicians who tell you that they are serving because they feel it is their duty always have a surprise for their constituents. One of the surprises they have in store for you and me is the Energy Act that will become effective next year. If you’re interested you can find it here:
One of the many things this law does is to ban incandescent light bulbs and mandate their replacement with compact fluorescent lamps (CFL’s), all in an effort to “control the excessive consumption of electricity”. While CFL’s cost a lot more than regular bulbs they really do consume less power and are claimed to last a lot longer.
In my own experience, and tracking comments on home and industrial maintenance web sites it looks like the manufacturers have a quality control issue in that about 25% of the cheaper bulbs fail either on start up or within a month of installation. If experience in England
But what really irks me is when I was a younger parent we brought the girl children a Kiddies’ Kitchen Set that included an oven the kids could actually cook in. It required a 100 watt light bulb to produce the heat necessary to cook what I fondly remember as terrible cookies. No longer, once the ban on light bulbs becomes law will parents have to suffer while pleasing their children. The Grinch has once again stolen childhood!
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