In light of the population numbers, if I lived in Europe I'd be seriously considering emulating this guy.

Actually I bought six today at Home Depot for $3.97.

But it is just as Ann Coulter said a while back, about how stupid "liberals" are; they think that flipping a light switch off will change the temperature of the oceans.
I like CFL's because I just don't have to get up on a ladder and change the bulbs so often. I have some in the basement that have been in use for two years.

I'm stockpiling incandescent light bulbs in my basement. (they're illegal after 2014)http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59298
I have one hundred each of 75 and 100 watt bulbs. I'll soon be ordering more from 1000bulbs.com.

I'll be damned if I'm going into my 'golden' years with inadequate - slow to come on - mercury laden CFLs.

It's my little contribution to preventing global cooling.

Because of their one-child policy, China's population is rapidly aging, and it should start to decline in the near future, just as Japan's is, and for the same reason.

However, the policy led to an imbalance between the sexes among the young. Some demographers estimate that China has 30 million excess young men and teens, just the age group that causes trouble everywhere.

So there will be fewer Chinese in the future, but the country will become a problem for its neighbors and the USA.

I heat my home more months of the year than I cool it. If I use heat generating incandescent bulbs, and turn all the lights on in the house during the day, it saves me almost 2 gallons of propane per day (qty 42 bulbs x 100w x ~300 BTU/hr).

If propane costs $3/gallon, then over the course of the heating season, 6 months (6 months heating, 3 months cooling, 3 months off), I SAVE $1,050 a year on heating fuel costs using incandescent bulbs.

I'm so tired of this discussion I think I'll replace all my incandescents with CFLs and install a coal-fired furnace to make up the difference.

Eman - Electric space heating is massively inefficient, in most circumstances. Why? Simple, really. No electric plant has an efficiency of more than about 45%, if powered by any sort of heat engine. So before the power even gets to you, at least 55% of the energy is chucked into the atmosphere, or the hydrosphere, as completely useless lowgrade heat.

This applies less if the electicity is coming from a nuke or hydro plant - both of these sources are very difficult to use on a small scale.

If you can save significant money by leaving the lights on, then it means that the electricity you're using is underpriced, or propane is overpriced, or both.

The real solution to this sort of problem is district heat and power. Far too socialist a solution for America, obviously. Using powerplant cooling water at 70 deg C or so for space heating is a commie plot not to be taken seriously by redblooded Americans. Much better to chuck the energy away.

Actually, I agree with the naysayers when it comes to CFLs. LED lighting, on the other hand...

hoarding...guilty as charged.

I am Ulf Erdmann Ziegler. I watched as my people rebuilt our civilization out of the ashes, after we had foolishly burnt it down twice in 25 years. I saw us defeat 2 types of barbaric totalitarianisms, and replace them with democracy and functioning technology. I saw us invite poor aliens from all over the world to share in our progress. But now our own bureaucrats have killed the last of our lightbulbs, and our people.

I, Ulf, am the last of the Europeans.

Their god is lying in a climate controlled, vacuum sealed coffin in Red Square, the dude who's birthday Earth Day coincidentally just happens to accidentally be on.

Happy Lenin's Birthday, comrades!

Da, tovarish, but when I read about light bulbs and self abuse in the same sentence I was reminded of a man I saw in the ER in Berkeley. He had put a light bulb somewhere he shouldn't have and, well... it had to be removed.

At least it didn't contain mercury!

I understand that the founder of Earth Day is Ira Einhorn, the crackpot college professor who murdered his girlfriend and then ran off to Europe.

Another dubious holiday, Kwaanzaa (sp?) was invented by Ron Karenga, a crackpot college professor known for both his racism and violence towards women.

Another crackpot college professor who wanted forced abortions and to have sulfur dioxide spewed into the stratosphere is advisng the Teleprompter in Chief.

Shakespeare had someone saying "First, let's kill all the lawyers." We may want to update the intended targets in that old saying.

Did you notice in the uppermost cartoon the semi-prostrate person's tattoo "The Left" is located on his forehead?

I heard a sound one day that I had only heard in cartoons, and then saw smoke coming out of my ceiling fixture. The CF lamp had gone out the hard way. Fortunately for me, it didn't start a fire.

I don't see a big problem. Just use flashlights and candles. Oil lamps.
Read by the light of the cook fire.
Do all when the sun is up. Sleep after sundown. Simple.

Soon as the nukes start flyin' we'll glow in the dark.

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