“Although it will be illegal to MANUFACTURE them after 2014, I doubt it will be illegal to sell them.”
Illegal to manufacture in the US, dave. Can’t be illegal to sell them, or else there will be a new black market for incandescent light bulb trafficking.
CFLs – most have mercury, yes? I am not exactly informed on all CFLs, but people are throwing out a lot of mercury-filled used-bulbs into our water systems. So I think they cost us more $$$ than they save in the long run. (ie, most people don’t recycle, and last time I recycled CFLs they cost 50 cents each. Most people don’t usually go out of their way for that.)
DIBS, those Bowery light stores are closing up like block buster stores
“Although it will be illegal to MANUFACTURE them after 2014, I doubt it will be illegal to sell them.”
Illegal to manufacture in the US, dave. Can’t be illegal to sell them, or else there will be a new black market for incandescent light bulb trafficking.
I believe we concluded at lunch that male homosexuality (or at least bisexuality) is more prevalent in matriarchal societies.
Discuss.
Or Regina is reputedly an unpleasant town.
Good in limericks as well.
I just realized that if a bomb went off at Citicorp, the entire brain trust of the OT would be wiped out within a three block radius.
I heard that President Obama is renaming AFT to the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco and Incandescent Bulb control.
CFLs – most have mercury, yes? I am not exactly informed on all CFLs, but people are throwing out a lot of mercury-filled used-bulbs into our water systems. So I think they cost us more $$$ than they save in the long run. (ie, most people don’t recycle, and last time I recycled CFLs they cost 50 cents each. Most people don’t usually go out of their way for that.)
News Flash: Portia de Rossi has legally changed her name to Portia DeGeneres.
http://www.nylj.com/nylawyer/news/10/09/092410n.html
(OK, Lech, I know you don’t know who this is.)
And with all those lamp/lighting shops on Bowery, ou can be sure the Chinese will always have them available.