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Why Changing Your Lightbulbs Doesn't Matter

Posted on August 30, 2008

OK, I'm officially sick of it. Let's stop talking about changing our world by changing your light bulbs. There are a few reasons why people tell you that switching from incandescents to CFLs should be done, and they're all crap reasons. I'm tired of it.First, they'll tell you that 22% of America's energy is eaten up by light bulbs. And that, absolutely, is true. But the majority of that 22% has nothing to do with household lighting. It's streetlights, supermarkets and other businesses that gulp down the majority of lighting energy.But mostly, that's not what bothers me about these campaigns ....

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