This follows Ray Tapajna's quoted comments in the Plain Dealer article about the Dark side of energy-efficient light bulbs. This letter was published in the Plain Dealer May 13, 2007 in response to the article.
By Ray Tapajna
Editor and Artist
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ENERGY-SAVING LIGHT BULBS? WELL NOT EXACTLY
Michael Scott gave us an excellent report about the mercury contamination related to the use of CFL energy-saving light bulbs (May 4). However, there's more to it than this alone. Home Depot, on Earth Day, gave a million of them away free, saying it was like taking 70,000 autos off the highway in terms of pollution.
THE 8,000 MILES LIGHT BULB
Home Depot and Wal-Mart, which also promotes these bulbs, do not tell us how far one of the CFL light bulbs has to travel to get here. Ninety percent are made in China. This means a single CFL light bulb travels about 8,000 miles to get to the United States. We are not told how much energy is exhausted in terms of protective packaging, long-haul ocean shipping and truck and rail energy used in getting just one light bulb here.
On top of this, we do not know the extent of "dirty" manufacturing involved in China. Manufacturing these bulbs includes the use of coal, which produces mercury pollutants. There are no walls up to the sky protecting us from this pollution.
We should also note that the money spent by consumers for this product, like many others made in China and other foreign places, goes directly to the manufacturers in China to boost their economy, not ours.
Finally the China Ocean Shipping Co. brings products like this across our country on railroad flat cars containing large shipping containers. COSCO is owned in part by the Chinese Liberation Army. (note: How does this fit in with Homeland Security. Why worry about our borders when the Chinese Liberation Army rolls by over our railroads. Also, the empty shipping containers are an energy overhead too especially since the United States does not export much back to China.)
Ponder all this while you think you are saving energy using these light bulbs. Someone should ask the dysfunctional globalist free-traders like Al Gore about things like this.
Ray Tapajna
tapin@safe-mail.net
Plain Dealer May 13, 2007
( The IUE-CWA union had a large page ad in the Plain Dealer May 10,2007 titled Green Technology shouldn't mean a Pink Slip for American Workers and refers readers to ScrewThatBulb.org. )
See also Welcome Dysfunctional Globalists and Dislocated Workers who have no voice in the process of Globalization and Free Trade at http://ezinearticles.com/?id=545363
ShipGreen software on the way
(Another darker story behind the Dark Side of Energy Saving Light Bulbs. - Someone should send this article to Free Trader Green Gore and ask - is this the New World Order or is it the New World Disorder - See http://www.bizarrepolitics.com/ )
A Colorado startup has developed software that lets consumers find out how much greenhouses gases it takes to deliver certain products. It then tells you how much more you need to spend to reduce the same amount of emissions somewhere else.
This is only the beginning in calculating the cost and consumption of energy and the overhead for a green earth for long haul ocean, air, rail and truck shipping.
We wonder how much energy and pollution there is in just supplying stores like Wal-Mart and Home Depot with most of the products traveling thousands of miles to get to our cities.
We wonder how many ships, trains and trucks would it take like this to light up and heat all of our cities.
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