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 I don't get tired of watching that and I think we need to start writing our congress people about this. 

 Think about it, whats next ? They are telling you which products you can use ? Next you can't use oil to cook an egg or you'll be placed on rations, hell, the government has had quite a bit of practice w/ handing out food ration cards for some time now, it wouldn't take much to propose  any penalty.

If your really worried momma, go LED or fiber optic lighting then. 

If you remember right flourescents bulbs have been around a long time, schools, offices, hell I have several in my own basement.  These are not really new. 

do you realize there is no environmentally safe way to dispose of them?

The hazard from CFLs comes from mercury. But electricy from coal releases mercury into the atmosphere. Using a CFL instead of an incandescent reduces that mercury released into the environment.

Even if the mercury contained in a CFL was directly released into the atmosphere, an incandescent would still contribute 4.65 more milligrams of mercury into the environment over its lifetime.

If you take your CFL and dispose of it in the worst way possible, just smash it, and blow the dust with the mercury into the air, you will release *less* mercury than if you continue to use incandescent light bulbs.

Coal plants release tons of mercury into the air today. Any reduction of the use of electricity reduces that, including switching to CFLs. That mercury is released into the atmosphere. The mercury in a CFL is contained and could be recycled.

The older home heating thermostat has a mercury switch. Those switches contain about 3000 milligrams of mercury, about the same amount of mercury in 600 CFLs.

It would take many decades, perhaps centuries, for the CFLs used in that home to contain the same amount of mercury as was contained in that home's thermostat.

This is probably true for almost every home older than 20 years.

I myself will continue to use these energy savers. And safely dispose of them.

Or heres an interesting article.
http://www.greenlivingtips.com/articles/157/1/CFL-disposal-and-recycling.html

 Some people are reading the wrong articles.

 And grandpa, if you are referring to the mini CFL's, putting the things in bags into the landifill is the best the epa can do ? come on .

 All you hear anymore is of the energy crisis, and the best they have is forcing us to use these things ? As the senator said. 

  I have been looking for the light ( new or otherwise for years ) Man ,

Gotta love it. 

Again, each to there own mudmanc.