Friday 9 January 2009

Light Bulb Ban


I've been out to supermarket this morning to buy 100 old fashioned, energy wasting 100 watt light bulbs. Why? From next September, 100-watt light bulbs will be banned from Europe's shops. I've spent the last 12 years being heavily taxed to the hilt by this incompetent government and I refuse to give in to their fascist dictatorship on green issues any longer. I've done everything in the past to save energy and to help the environment, eg. taking my own carrier bags with me to the supermarket, walking to the local shops instead of using the car etc. But my only luxury is a bright light to read by, and now that's been threatened. I have used those ugly dim energy saving light bulbs in the past, candle light give off more light than those things and they poke through the top of the lamp shades. I refuse to use them at the diktat of Gordon fucking Brown and the EU.

6 comments:

  1. The green squads are considering passing similar measures over here. I hate fluorescent lighting and prefer the warm glow of incandescent bulbs. As a designer I prefer the entire range of the lighting spectrum, fluorescent, incandescent, and halogen in a mixture to create a more natural lighting. I am not about to put those squiggly fluorescent bulbs into a period chandelier…ever!

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  2. Can you imagine how ugly that'll make the shandyleer, I don't want to live in a hovel thank you very much.I think we are safe with the halogen ones.

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  3. The bulb ban is total and complete bullshit! This gov't is going too far with this. There are many many problems with CFLs. They contain mercury. They give off radiation. They are bad for your eyesight. They are bad for your skin. They are bad for your well being. Not to mention that they look bad, the light they give off is horrid! It costs $2000.00 to call Hazmat to clean it up when you break a bulb in your house! It costs money to recycle them. People will not recycle. They will throw them away in the regular garbage. The bulbs will pollute landfills and groundwater! Think about what you are doing here! What will they ban next? Vitamin C? They have tried to do that in the past. As an American Citizen I WANT A CHOICE in a light bulb! I WANT TO CHOOSE FOR MYSELF WHAT IS BEST FOR ME!!!!! I do not want the GOV'T TO DECIDE WHAT IS BEST FOR ME! I have a brain and can think unlike many in congress! I want them out of my pocket! Taxes are ridiculous! I worked to earn MY money! Lazy people need to get up off of their ASSES!!! Everyone should know by now that all of the planets in the solar system are warming up slightly. (check the NASA website) The inhabitants of earth are not causing the other planets to warm! We are not causing this planet to warm! Pollution is not good but we are not the cause of this! It is all complete and total bull! You are all brainwashed to think what they want you to think! Turn off the TV and think for yourself!!!!!!!

    January 16, 2009 1:25 AM

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  4. Gormless nonce, get upset about something that actually matters.

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  5. i think I'm in love with the guy above me.
    you're all dolphin clunges.

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  6. OMG!!!!!!!!!!

    THE WORLD IS CHANGING AND I DON'T LIKE IT!!!!!

    WHAT NEXT?? BANNING CHILD-RAPE??? I'VE BEEN RAPING MY KIDS SINCE I WAS NINE YEARS OLD, AND IT NEVER DID THEM ANY HARM!

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