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Love the CFL article! - RF Cafe Forums

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Ed Milan
 
 Post subject: Love the CFL article!
Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 8:43 pm 
 
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I'm with you Kirt on the CFL issue. Your classic mix of sarcasm and humor is spot on as usual. I love the line about the poor Chinese workers contemplating suicide while trying to make quotas under threat of imprisonment! Sad but all too true. All the limosine liberals never hesitate to buy the cheap goods or sell their stocks in companies that aid and abet the inhumane practices in Communist China. Hell they all love the Communist system and hope some day they can be part of the ruling elite. Somebody prove me wrong.


 
   
 
Kirt Blattenberger
 Post subject: Re: Love the CFL article!
Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 11:38 am 
 
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Greetings Ed:

Glad you liked the article.

News Flash: A couple days ago, the 23 W (100 W equiv.) CFL in my floor lamp gave up the ghost. It was about a year old and certainly has not suffered any abuse. If the news media wasn't carrying the water for the Green agenda, there would be investigative reports all over newspaper front pages and television shows about how the promises of CFL have fallen short, and are just causing already cash-strapped households to spend more of their money.

When I tossed out this CFL bulb, I tossed out more glass than in the equivalent incandescent, a PCB full of electronic components, and a plastic base (horrors - a petroleum product!).

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Posted  11/12/2012