Crabby Blogging Lady

I think I hate CFL bulbs, even more than those lousy incandescent bulbs. For one, those new-fangled CFLs don’t fit in some of my light fixtures! And the light fixtures are new, purchased only a few years ago. Two, you can’t use the CFLs with touch-lamps or touch lights. I did it, and it totally blew out my $50 lamp! Gah! Third, the government and environmental wackos love CFLS and have pressured governments to force us to have them, so I hate them.

I never loved incandescent bulbs– they’re fragile. Whenever I purchased a dozen or so at the store, I can always count on one or two of them not working! It’s such a crock! Either they are already blown, or some overzealous stock boy, rocking to Metallica at 3am while shelving the inventory, rattles the boxes and breaks the filaments in the bulbs.

Plus, incandescent bulbs don’t last very long. My house has high ceilings, where we have to climb on ladders to change the light bulbs. It’s NO FUN hauling the 10-foot ladder out of the garage into the various rooms, just to screw in another light bulb (and then find out it doesn’t work).

Not that CFLs last long, either. Sure, they last longer than the 10-day life expectancy of the incandescent, but for CFLs being 10 times more expensive than incandescent, and being marketed as “lasting 5 to 7 years!” I think they are a CROCK!! I installed several about 8 months ago.. and they are all blown out already!

And worse of all, the CFLs are being forced into our lives! Governments with their fad “du jour” legislation are banning the incandescent and forcing us to buy CFLs!

Hello?! CFLs are full of toxic chemicals, like mercury! What are we going to do with all of that stuff, huh? Didn’t anyone ever stop to think about that? So if you break one in your home, or fill up your neighborhood landfill (or if you are like New York City, go fill up Upstate NY’s and New Jersey’s landfills to poison the people there) with these CFLs, you are introducing tons of highly toxic chemicals into the environment. Can someone please tell me how CFLs are supposed to “save” our planet?! And how are they going to monitor our bulb usage, huh? Have a Big Brother Ministry of Light Bulbs walking around towns with handheld gps scanners, looking for LIGHT BULB CRIMINALS?

Know what I think will happen? Those knuckleheads in government, who have banned the incandescent, will eventually “discover” that our landfills are suddenly filled with toxic chemicals from the CFL bulb. They will tax us to the gills for the cleanup, and then turn around and ban CFLs, too! And then you know what we’ll be left with! CANDLES! Yes, candles and other open flame lighting!! But even New York State has one up on that already! Because those idiots just created a law banning open flame fires, like campfires! These idiots! They are going to legislate us back to the Stone Age! GAH!