We’ll eventually be disposing billions and billions of CFL mercury bombs. Much of the mercury from discarded and/or broken CFLs is bound to make its way into the environment get people and animals sick, and give rise to Superfund liability, which in the past has needlessly disrupted many lives, cost tens of billions of dollars and sent many businesses into bankruptcy.
Electric and Hybrid cars = Battery pollution (millions of acid base and harmful chemicals that are NOT recyclable) .
The government makes it sound as if they cared about the environment but it is all a big green lie to get our votes.
In Quebec (Canada), they want us to use CFLs so they can save energy and presumably produce less green house gases. What green house gases? We produce hydroelectric electricity. We produce one of the largest quantities of hydro-electric power in the world (No green house emissions) and we have enough to use and also sell to New-York state and Ontario. I guess they want to sell more and make more profit.
If they really wanted cleaner cars, they should go for Hydrogen combustion engine cars.
They have 0 emissions and no batteries to throw out.
But I guess they would loose lots of money if everyone uses water to run their cars.
The world economy is based on oil consumption and they want us to consume something. They are simply trying to replace the sale of oil with something else (selling batteries and other fuels) and maximize their profits.
There are far less cole factories than in the 30s and 50s therefore less harmful chemicals in the air. Needless to remind you that we all exhale CO2 emissions. This wouldn’t be a problem if they stopped cutting down forests. The trees can take care of the CO2, that is what they do.
One more thing CFLs are made from plastic (Oil based product) and also contain electronic circuits (led). If people start throwing them out just like they do with other electronic products, we are all in deep Sh_t. Regular light balbs are completely biodegradable and if used wisely with dimmers they are a better choice.
Hydrogen fueled car is very much feasible. BMW came out with one and the Hydrogen is produced by solar power: http://www.bmwworld.com/hydrogen/
