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Posted by HeyBub on May 16, 2008, 11:32 am
Red wrote:
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> Exactly! I get pissed everytime I read about changing to CFL's. Just
> a half drop in a bucket compared to the big picture - just a feel-good
> thing for people to do. Until the big industries change, there will
> be no real change in the climate. For example, a study by the
> International Council on Clean Transportation found that ships burning
> dirty bunker fuel just because it's cheap release more sulfer dioxide
> (a major component of acid rain) than all of the world's cars, trucks,
> and busses combined. They also produce 27% of the worlds smog
> producing nitrogen-oxide emissions. Until someone can get these major
> things changed, turning to CFL's mean nothing to the big picture.
> It's like saying removing the gas tax for 3 months will cure the gas
> supply problem.
Right. CFLs, though, do lower an individual user's electric bill - unless
you tend to leave the light on all the time because it's so cheap to do so.
Interestingly, the government makes a greater profit on each gallon of gas
than do the oil companies. And the individual gas station has a higher
profit margin on beef jerkey it sells than on the gasoline.
I think the gas is sort of a sales-loss-leader to get people to come in and
buy Snickers bars and packs of smokes.
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