Whose bright idea was the lightbulb ban? We Canadians aren't too
happy having anything forced upon us and the proposal to ban all
incandescent lightbulbs by 2012 doesn't sit too well with many
of us. How many Canadians does it take to change a lightbulb?
Hard to tell. But there have been some very strong feelings
against the new energy-saving fluorescents voiced by some in
submissions to the federal Department of Environment. I'm all
for saving energy but I have to say that I have always been
bothered by headaches caused by fluorescent lights, and the new
spiral ones are just as bad for this as the old tubes. Jack
Branswell, Canwest News Service Published: Sunday, March 09,
2008 The federal government's plan to phase out incandescent
light bulbs isn't such a bright idea, according to Canadians who
wrote to the federal Environment Department. Environmentalists
think the plan to ban the energy-sucking incandescent bulbs by
2012 makes perfect sense. But in 33 pages of feedback on the
plan from Canadians to the f