Comments on: Plain Dealer: The Dark Side of Energy-Efficient Light Bulbs http://globalalerts.com/2007/05/04/plain-dealer-the-dark-side-of-energy-efficient-light-bulbs/ An environmental services company that addresses product end-of-life solutions for both businesses and consumers. Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:49:00 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Bob Hill http://globalalerts.com/2007/05/04/plain-dealer-the-dark-side-of-energy-efficient-light-bulbs/comment-page-1/#comment-723 Bob Hill Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:22:24 +0000 http://globalalerts.com/2007/05/04/plain-dealer-the-dark-side-of-energy-efficient-light-bulbs/#comment-723 I want to send them my disapproval of firing U S workers! I want to send them my disapproval of firing U S workers!

]]> By: frank mitchell http://globalalerts.com/2007/05/04/plain-dealer-the-dark-side-of-energy-efficient-light-bulbs/comment-page-1/#comment-544 frank mitchell Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:10:46 +0000 http://globalalerts.com/2007/05/04/plain-dealer-the-dark-side-of-energy-efficient-light-bulbs/#comment-544 Just say no to all things made in china and don't shop wal-mart Just say no to all things made in china and don’t shop wal-mart

]]> By: Tapsearch Com Editor http://globalalerts.com/2007/05/04/plain-dealer-the-dark-side-of-energy-efficient-light-bulbs/comment-page-1/#comment-191 Tapsearch Com Editor Mon, 14 May 2007 16:07:14 +0000 http://globalalerts.com/2007/05/04/plain-dealer-the-dark-side-of-energy-efficient-light-bulbs/#comment-191 From Cleveland Plain Dealer Letters May 13, 2007 ENERGY-SAVING LIGHT BULBS? WELL, NOT EXACTLY By Ray Tapajna Michael Scott gave us an excellent report about the mercury contamination related to the use of CFL energy saving light bulbs (May 4). However, there's more to it than this alone. Home Depot, on Earth Day, gave a milion of them away free, saying it was like taking 70,000 autos off the highway in terms of pollution. ( If Globalization and Free Trade are a success - what will the world do with 200 million more autos in China and India?) THE 8000 MILES LIGHT BULB Home Depot and Wal-Mart, which also promotes these bulbs, do not tell us how far one of the CFL light bulbs has to travel to get here. Ninety percent are made in China. This means a single CFL light bulb travels about 8,000 miles to get to the United States. We are not told how much energy is exhausted in terms of protective packaging, long-haul ocean shipping and truck and rail energy used in getting just one light bulb here. On top of this, we do not know the exent of "dirty" manufacturing involved in China. Manufacturing these bulbs includes the use of coal, which produced mercury pollutants. There are no walls up to the sky protecting us from this pollution. We should also note that the money spent by consumers for this product, like many others made in China and other foreign places, goes directly to the manufacturers in China to boost their economy and not ours. (The IUE-CWA union had a big ad in the Cleveland Plain Dealer May 10, 2007 titled Green Technology shouldn't mean a pink slip for American Workers. - the ad ends adding - Go to ScrewThatBulb.org to sign our petition and tell GE to invest in American Jobs.) Finally, the China Ocean Shipping Co. brings products like this across our country on railroad flat cars containing large shipping containers. COSCO is owned in part by the Chinese Liberation Army. ( These containers present another problem since the U.S. does not ship much back to China and the empty containers are a storage problem too - where do they go and how far do they have to travel to get there?) Ponder all of this while you think you are saving energy using these bulbs. Someone should ask the dysfunctional globalist free-traders like Al Gore about things like this. Ray Tapajna Cleveland Ohio See Tapart News and Art that Talks at http://tapsearch.com/tapartnews and Explore the lost worlds in the Flat World of Globalist Free Traders like Thomas Friedman from the New York Times and the Clintons from the Land of is at http://tapsearch.com/flatworld/ See also We chopped up the Golden Goose that layed the Golden Eggs. Who said we had to compete like this at http://ezinearticles.com/?id=541566 and other related articles at http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Ray_Tapajna and rss feed http://ezinearticles.com/members/rss/Ray-Tapajna.xml A popular article is Lend Lease Act was real Free Trade and not chopped liver as in the Globalist world. From Cleveland Plain Dealer Letters May 13, 2007

ENERGY-SAVING LIGHT BULBS? WELL, NOT EXACTLY
By Ray Tapajna

Michael Scott gave us an excellent report about the mercury contamination related to the use of CFL energy saving light bulbs (May 4). However, there’s more to it than this alone. Home Depot, on Earth Day, gave a milion of them away free, saying it was like taking 70,000 autos off the highway in terms of pollution. ( If Globalization and Free Trade are a success – what will the world do with 200 million more autos in China and India?)
THE 8000 MILES LIGHT BULB
Home Depot and Wal-Mart, which also promotes these bulbs, do not tell us how far one of the CFL light bulbs has to travel to get here. Ninety percent are made in China. This means a single CFL light bulb travels about 8,000 miles to get to the United States. We are not told how much energy is exhausted in terms of protective packaging, long-haul ocean shipping and truck and rail energy used in getting just one light bulb here.

On top of this, we do not know the exent of “dirty” manufacturing involved in China. Manufacturing these bulbs includes the use of coal, which produced mercury pollutants. There are no walls up to the sky protecting us from this pollution.

We should also note that the money spent by consumers for this product, like many others made in China and other foreign places, goes directly to the manufacturers in China to boost their economy and not ours. (The IUE-CWA union had a big ad in the Cleveland Plain Dealer May 10, 2007 titled Green Technology shouldn’t mean a pink slip for American Workers. – the ad ends adding – Go to ScrewThatBulb.org to sign our petition and tell GE to invest in American Jobs.)
Finally, the China Ocean Shipping Co. brings products like this across our country on railroad flat cars containing large shipping containers. COSCO is owned in part by the Chinese Liberation Army. ( These containers present another problem since the U.S. does not ship much back to China and the empty containers are a storage problem too – where do they go and how far do they have to travel to get there?)
Ponder all of this while you think you are saving energy using these bulbs. Someone should ask the dysfunctional globalist free-traders like Al Gore about things like this.

Ray Tapajna
Cleveland Ohio

See Tapart News and Art that Talks at http://tapsearch.com/tapartnews and Explore the lost worlds in the Flat World of Globalist Free Traders like Thomas Friedman from the New York Times and the Clintons from the Land of is at http://tapsearch.com/flatworld/
See also We chopped up the Golden Goose that layed the Golden Eggs. Who said we had to compete like this at http://ezinearticles.com/?id=541566
and other related articles at http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Ray_Tapajna and rss feed http://ezinearticles.com/members/rss/Ray-Tapajna.xml
A popular article is Lend Lease Act was real Free Trade and not chopped liver as in the Globalist world.

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