Children @ Risk Thanks to US Energy Policy
You may remember how GE and other fluorescent bulb makers lobbied successfully to force consumers to switch to their earth-saving bulbs. Well, now the EPA has come out revising their recommendations for where homeowners should use the bulbs, because mercury levels in the bulbs could put your little ones at risk if they break the bulb and are exposed to the mercury in the bulb. (There’s a story about this report on www.thebostonchannel.com)
I don’t know about you, but I get the sick feeling that energy saving bulbs, ethanol and the rest of the long list of earth saving technologies are actually going to do more damage than produce any carbon offset. It’s what we deserve when we allow bad science and a big government approach to helping us be good stewards over our private property and natural resources.
