Yet another article on CFLs

Posted in Commentary on April 30th, 2007 by Sacha Peter

Now this article blames women for the lack of widespread adoption of Compact Fluorescent Lights (CFL)s.

I am finding this debate on CFLs rather interesting in that I find the analogy between incandescent light/CFLs and compact cars/SUVs to be mightily similar. This time, the government has stepped in and said that you have to use CFLs because they are more efficient. I think in the name of vote-grabbing, other such initiatives are probably not that far behind.

Ultimately it’s about choice – even if CFLs are cheaper, more efficient in every way, what if I want to use an incandescent light because I like the light better? Isn’t it my choice to pay the extra few cents of electricity? I guess not anymore.

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