[AT] Talking about lights in favor of CFL's

[Ron Cook]

I can certainly believe that!  And it won't show up on Snopes, either.  
Follow the money.  We've been sold out.
My old tractors and my truck uses incandescent bulbs.  They just happen 
to be 6V and 12V DC instead of 120V AC.  Do you suppose they are going 
out too?

Ron Cook
Salix, IA

On 3/6/2011 6:34 PM, charlie hill wrote:
> Rupert, according to what I heard on a TV news show GE was getting killed in
> the incandescent bulb market by Sylvania.  Jeffery Immelt of GE approached
> the gov't with the idea of getting rid of the incandescent bulbs.  GE has
> already closed their incandescent plant in Winchester VA  this past fall and
> put hundreds of folks out of work and opened a CFL plant in China.  ALL
> CFL's are made in China.  My guess is that the production of those things
> would not meet environmental requirements in the US.
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