Oops! Watch that Light Bulb
February 27, 2008
While Congress forces us to drop the old bulbs for the new “twirley ones” by 2012, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is warning that their compact fluorescent replacements are not safe to use everywhere.
A recent study found that, in many cases, immediately after a bulb was broken levels of mercury vapor exceeded federal guidelines for chronic exposure by as much as 100 times. The group behind the study warns when a compact fluorescent breaks, consumers should get children and pets out of the room and ventilate it.
Rush Limbaugh told his audience, “It is so, frankly, ridiculous and absurd that it insults my intelligence, and it worries me when so many people are so mind-numbed that they go along with these charades and make themselves feel like they’re actually doing something to improve their lives. …
“When you’re going to allow a bunch of bureaucrats to turn over as much of your freedom as you have, this is what you get. When you buy into hoaxes and silly things that a little examination with your own common sense can tell you is not true – such as incandescent lightbulbs are destroying the planet, causing global warming – if you’re going to buy into this tripe, then you deserve what you get. You deserve it. The problem is, we’re all going to get it, too, because of people’s stupidity. We’re not going to have a choice to put compact fluorescents in our houses or not.”
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