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Sure, I am all for energy efficiency. Let me apologize to any differently abled or simian individuals, but we have retarded monkeys making the laws here.
Compact fluorescents, great idea, make incandescent lights illegal, fantastic.
What if you have your trouble light in the garage, which you occasionally drop, and you break your CFL, or worse drop one in the house. How much is it to have a hazmat team come to your house? How much mercury does it take to kill you? How much to really screw you up, Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland screwy, but not kill you outright? How about for little kids, or a pregnant woman?
BTW, these are rhetorical questions, I know, and it does not take a lot of mercury to give you some profound neurologic deficits, especially if you happen to be a developing embryo.
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