Comments on: Brits panic buying traditional light bulbs before stocks disappear

By: DaveBG

DaveBG — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:04:49 +0000

Dave

If you’re only going to use laughable sources like the Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph then don’t be surprised if you find the tales they tell are exaggerated and distorted BS, totally out-of-touch with everyday life or the majority in the UK.

Those 2 papers especially are the most right-wing & anti-EU we have.

The people in the EU want greener & cleaner Gov policies, more environmentally friendly and ecologically aware Gov.
That’s simply a fact.

We are all moving to ensure we save money, energy and make the most of the natural resources we have or that we buy.
Idiotic wastage is just not on the agenda, it costs us all too much.

Bye bye incandescent light bulbs, hello much cheaper to run energy-saving bulbs
(even more efficient LED bulbs are soon to follow).

(Christ on a bike Ken, you seriously use a site like “eu-corruption!?
Yeah, bound to be a reliable impartial and unbiased place to learn about the EU, not.)

By: ken

ken — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:12:54 +0000

“(shut up Yankees,you guys have about the least freedom amoung the developed world. dont believe me ?, jump on a plane to Cuba then.)”

I can put up a TV antenna and not have my government tax them. I can buy incandescent bulbs freely and everywhere. My country didn’t produce the author of 1984. and I can be in Little Havana in 15 minutes.

Funny you should mock our relationship with Cuba:

http://www.eu-corruption.com/2008/06/20/brown-sells-uk-freedoms-to-the-cuban-government/

I’ll keep ours, thank you.

By: DavidB

DavidB — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:52:55 +0000

Maybe these stockpilers have the foresight to want to avoid all the mercury contamination in landfills that I’m sure we will be hearing about as all the CFL’s start going in the trash in a few years? Recycle (“properly dispose”) light bulbs? Yeah right, the general public is gonna do that, right alongside their recycling of batteries and inkject printer cartridges and etc.

By: thebrix

thebrix — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:57:09 +0000

And just one more thing … science coverage is generally ignorant, and ignorance plus irresponsibility forms a dangerous mixture. I can imagine the nonsense that will have been written about CFLs. I once had an unsettling (for him) encounter with the science editor of a national newspaper who, it turned out, had a history degree and had last studied science (one science – biology) at school for O-level (the examination taken at age 16 in England); I didn’t have the nerve to ask what grade he got. His general understanding was, to put it kindly, somewhat deficient, and that must have filtered through to what was eventually published!

By: thebrix

thebrix — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:07:13 +0000

If the EU agrees something, by vote of the individual governments, each individual goverments is obliged to take it up unless they have an explicit opt-out (an extremely rare event); there is no “deciding to go along with it”.

Also, the notion that UK newspapers represent “public opinion” is wrong; they represent the opinions of the owner, which may be as perverse or as risible as they please. (For example, the Daily Express seemed to alternate, for years, on its front page between exaggerations about the weather, Diana, Princess of Wales conspiracy theories and varying degrees of lies about asylum seekers!) Regrettably, brilliantly presented rubbish usually trumps the facts …

Notwithstanding all that, the move is a good thing, especially with electricity prices as they are.

By: Darian

Darian — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:09:35 +0000

Dave your a idiot!!
“Which is a good move if not slightly stinking of a 1984-style decision to enforce government policy on a supposedly free public.” who exactly are you talking to with this comment- cos lass this is a standard thing for a government to do in every country in the world, including,Australia,New Zealand, U.k, all the E.U, U.s.a, And all other developed countries in the world, this isnt taking away your freedoms, (shut up Yankees,you guys have about the least freedom amoung the developed world. dont believe me ?, jump on a plane to Cuba then.), If we were all completly free, we wouldnt bother making a government would we ?,

It sounds like a Good idea.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:51:36 +0000

I’m guessing this stems from some misconceptions about the new environmentally friendly light bulbs – I don’t know what public awareness about the new kind is like in the UK (we’re pretty happy with them here in OZ) but perhaps the UK government could help educate the populace by saying things like “buying the new kind will not blow up your light sockets, burn down your house or spy on you for Chinese radicals”.