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Get Em While They Last: 99-Cent Flourescent Lightbulbs
Grab this offer if you live anywhere in the Pacific Gas & Electric forcefield. PG&E is giving away 1 million energy-saving compact fluorescent lightbulbs this month. They bought them for $1.25 a pop, less than retail, and are working with Safeway to sell them for 99 cents each in their service area (northern and central California). CFLs cost more than standard incandescent lightbulbs but use about 75 percent less energy and last as much as 10 times longer. Each CFL could save $30 in energy costs over the bulb's lifetime. The giveaway might save 400,000 megawatt hours of power use and prevent 200,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions—the equivalent of powering 60,000 homes or taking 31,000 cars off the road for a year.
Okay, the gauntlet's been thrown. How about the other utilities? Maybe their customers should lean on them.
Julia Whitty is Mother Jones' environmental correspondent. You can read from her new book, "The Fragile Edge," and other writings, here.
Comments
Up here in NH they've been giving rebates for years now.. Maine too
almost every home depot has the rebate forms right there with the bulbs ..
I've noticed some of the forms at aubuchon as well [walmart, No]
heres some more ..
http://ewweb.com/mag/electric_rebate_resource_3/
http://www.dsireusa.org/summarytables/FinEE.cfm?&CurrentPageID=7&EE=1&RE=1
Or google compact fluorescent rebate
Many places have been doing this for Years.
I hope it helps! Any saving is a positive step, provided that it’s backed by an overall change in our lifestyles-a sea change!
Somehow, we have to reduce global energy consumption from 503 EJ (503 x 10^18J, or 503,000,000,000,000,000,000J) each year to about 60EJ to see some signs of stability in the environmental devastation. As for the Fluorescent Lightbulbs, well at least they make you feel good!
A note on “Global Warming Snakeoil” is posted at http://msrb.wordpress.com/
Posted by: TERRES on 10/06/07 at 4:20 PM Respond
thanks for the update Aolbites. glad to hear it. what about the rest of the country, the world? any other encouragements from utilities companies out there?
Posted by: julia whitty on 10/10/07 at 11:19 AM Respond
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