Originally Posted by
AquaKnight
http:///forum/post/3187192
So sad Amerika has become one of the socailist European countries.... Boy, they've found something that tugs at people's heart, the environment, and boy are they running with it. Of course the facts that they are fakeing the entire thing, and we're declining global doesn't matter...
Great, so instead of incandescent that might use a bit more electricity, we'll now have CFL's that I bet 90% of, will be disposed of improperly, doing a number on the environment...
Two things off the top of my head that CFL's can't do... On the front of our house, we have the those fake candle bulbs. Can't do that with fluorescent. Or, I don't keep an reptile or work in the food industry, but what any type of heat lamp?
I remember back to the Gore/Bush election, I was on a radio control forum. If Gore got elected, thank god he didn't, one of the things on his agenda, was to ban 2-cycle engines. I bet 2-cycles are next...
We're lucky to be here!! All this hysteria reminds me of that idiot, Paul Ehrlich, who had a book and giant cult following in the early 70s, predicting Doomsday because of the World's population growth. (Yeah, I'm that old). Everyone was going to starve to death. He and his book were accepted by much of the scientific community as gospel. I believe nothing in his writings came to be.
On a similar topic; I got our School Board to change a textbook several years ago. One of my kids had a Science book that said re-cycling paper saved the rain forest! Yeah, they make paper out of teak and mahogany trees shipped her to make paper! And its the season for all the protesters who don't know that real Christmas trees are grown on farms, just like corn. Buying a fake tree will not save the forests; "But, but, but, at least I had good intentions."
