As for incandescents being banned altogether, I wouldn’t worry to much, they aren’t that hard to make. Some of Edison’s are still on display and working in his winter home.

It is strange how there is little mention of potential harm caused by the CFL’s though. Could be they want to wait until enough pile up in the landfills before they attack the problem. I could see some kind of forced recycling or random garbage inspections coming.

And out the other side of the enviros mouths we get scare stories about mercury ruining our fisheries and poisoning seafood, etc.

We’ve been stocking up on the old bulbs. I buy a 3 pack or two, every week. We’re up to about 40 or so spare 3-way old fashioned bulbs.

Geez, first it’s ammo; now it’s frickin light bulbs. What next?

If you didn’t need two of them to provide the same illumination, I guess it makes some sense. I do wonder if a prescription or other permit will be required to purchase them in Wisconsin now. And what about mercury switches in thermostats? Kids might break them open and bite open the glass vials.

If you believe the EPA, then throwing these things in a landfill *is* an ecological disaster. But, the left would rather focus on the sexy problem than the nitty-gritty one. Hence the conspiracy of silence.

I’m not being facetious, I really want to know. Becuase if so, do our overlords in DC who are shoving these dim-light things down our throats REALLY think that 95% of the people are going to recycle those things instead of just tossing them in the trash?

With all the hysteria over the risk of mercury spoiling our fisheries and ruining our ground water, etc., etc., — I can only assume that my info is wrong and what I thought I read is mistaken, and those things can be tossed in the trash without risk to the environment…because I have never seen one word out of, e.g., Consumer Reports or the MSM about mercury content in those bulbs and the severe danger cumulative amounts of it could pose over time, if millions of these things end up in landfills.

If it is indeed critical for the environment that these bulbs be taken to a toxic waste recycle place, then there is a conspiracy of silence coming out of the Enviro-Green movement wackos and their allies/enablers in the Media and Govt. over these bulbs.