Concerns Remain as Europe Changes Bulbs


	Concerns Remain as Europe Changes Bulbs

David Hughes

9-8-2009 3:24 PM

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9-8-2009 3:26 PM

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I think this problem will be sorted out

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/edbf03d6-39f7-45c2-b689-39635724c7c6/69CF5AE8-35AB-42F1-B7EA-8DE82DF48826/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/concerns-remain-as-europe-changes-bulbs/" href="http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/concerns-remain-as-europe-changes-bulbs/" style="font-size: 11px;">greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/concerns-remain-as-europe-changes-bulbs/"><H2 class="entry-title">Concerns Remain as Europe Changes Bulbs</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/concerns-remain-as-europe-changes-bulbs/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/img/9AFFCB13-616B-44C4-9609-F4BF29EF59B4" alt="Bulbs" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/concerns-remain-as-europe-changes-bulbs/"><P>Beginning next week, incandescent light bulbs will gradually be removed from the European Union market and replaced with energy-saving light bulbs — chiefly compact fluorescent bulbs — that use up to 80 percent less energy and have far longer lifetimes. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/concerns-remain-as-europe-changes-bulbs/"><P>The policy has been received positively by many shoppers and homeowners, two prominent consumer groups said on Wednesday, given the energy and money saving potential of the new bulbs. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/concerns-remain-as-europe-changes-bulbs/"><P>But there will be drawbacks too, the groups said. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/concerns-remain-as-europe-changes-bulbs/"><P>Monique Goyens, the director general of the <A href="http://www.beuc.org/Content/Default.asp">European Consumers’ Organization</A>, said scrapping incandescent bulbs would prove a disadvantage for consumers who have a special sensitivity to certain kinds of light, and who need old-style bulbs for health reasons. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/concerns-remain-as-europe-changes-bulbs/"><P>She said the European Commission should be doing more to inform people who still need old-style bulbs about where to find them. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/69CF5AE8-35AB-42F1-B7EA-8DE82DF48826/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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