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Old 20-07-2006, 20:12   #48
Margaret Pilkington
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Re: A tax on lightbulbs.

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Originally Posted by Neil
Only pulling your leg Margaret. Those lamps are very popular, florescents are horrible looking things and have no place in your home. What we need is investment into cheap enviromentally friendly power sources so we can use as much electricity as we want. Stuff all this save and switch of rubbish, just make more and more green power for us all.
Yes Neil, I totally agree.....if the government were to fund grants to have solar panels put onto houses(just and example) I think they would be taken more seriously.
I read that it actually costs more to use recycled glass and paper than it does to make new from scratch...so the only saving is that the items do not go for landfill.
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