Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, swings and swings and swings and misses the point entirely. As do most of the comments — over 2,200 of them so far. So much darkness.
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My concern is not that this is a congressional/EPA mandate, as the senator pleads, but that there is indeed an inherent toxicity to these 'green' lightbulbs. I have also read the instructions for cleaning up one of these light bulbs, and it is unlikely that anyone will follow that procedure. I have stated my concerns elsewhere, and one response indicated that the amount of mercury was some small fraction of allowable exposure, and/or is dwarfed by other common sources of emission. The number of bulbs in use must already be in the hundreds of millions. There will be very few people who dispose of them properly, and the cumulative effect may be significant to some degree. On balance, this may be comparably inconsequential, but there is just something about this that bothers me. It just seems that these products aren't in themselves 'green' and their value seems to be measure solely in reduced energy consumption.