The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday kicked off a campaign to get U.S. consumers to switch to energy-efficient light bulbs as a way of reducing energy spending and greenhouse gas emissions.
Yup. Real leadership.
The agency wants every U.S. household to change at least one traditional bulb to an Energy Star bulb, collectively saving $600 million a year in energy costs and preventing enough greenhouse gas emissions to equal what is spewed from the tailpipes of 800,000 cars.
At the end of the article, a White House flunky babbles a bit more about leadership – and new building codes. The new building codes will “evolve” in the United States the same way they have for years. We’ll eventually get around to copying and adopting European building codes.
Meanwhile:
Wal-Mart Stores announced it has surpassed its goal to sell 100 million compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) by the end of 2007. Over the lifetime of the CFLs, Wal-Mart estimates that these energy-saving bulbs will have the effect of taking 700,000 cars off the road, or conserving the energy needed to power 450,000 single-family homes.
Looks like Green Power is making things green faster than anything done by Congress or the White House. Or the EPA.
“No gases come from my schmuck.” – I’d get that checked if I were you. Schmuck blockage can turn serious in a hurry.
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That’s a perfectly fine stance and the market has heard your requests for vehicles that get better gas mileage. However, if truly environmentally friendly vehicles are going to appeal to mainstream consumers, they will have to provide comparable horsepower and torque to the vehicles offered now. That means it will need more than a 100hp lawnmower engine.
I just read an article a while ago that the Kiwi (New Zealand) government has banned the use of the traditional energy-exhausting bulbs and is expecting to save around $376 million by the end of 2020. When compared to the savings of the Kiwis, the US savings is very tiny (considering the size of the 2 countries, where US is probably around 50 times bigger). The ideal way would be to implement ban on the traditional bulb and make people use the new energy saving bulbs, thus contributing to huger amount than is mentioned in the article.