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From: "joseph lance" <jolylance@earthlink.net>
> This is an alert---as you may know Congress has passed a law banning
> incandescent light bulbs and mandating the use of fluorescents beginning in
> 2012.
>
> I have a lot of flood lamps and track lighting bulbs of various sizes and
> types on dimmer switches. Some manufacturers are starting to make dimmable
> fluorescent bulbs but they are very expensive compared to incandescent.
>
> So I decided to stock up on incandescent in the sizes and types that I
> use--but the problem is that some manufacturers are already phasing them out
> or have stopped manufacturing them. So I had to pay a premium price for some
> types. As 2012 approaches the supply / price problem will get worse.
>
> At the risk of stimulating demand and further price increases, some of you
>may
> want to buy a few incandescents soon if you have applications like mine. On
> the internet "1000Bulbs.com" has low prices.
>
> As Will Rogers said "whenever congress pass a law it becomes a joke, and
> whenever congress makes a joke it becomes a law". So we can expect them to
> pass additional laws to mandate disposal fees because of the Mercury
>contained
> in CFL bulbs which will then require a welfare program to subsidize the
> purchase of the even more expensive CFLs.
>
> You don't have to worry if you are growing Marijuana indoors--those types of
> incandescents are exempt.
>
> Lance
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