SovereignAxe
Regular Member
JT, don't do that. It's not the cashier's fault, so please don't take it out on her. I work as a cashier at Lowe's, part time, and believe me, we put up with enough sh*t as it is.
This is the result of more meddling by the government. They want to track who buys what. I understand it can be misused, but I object to having my purchases tied to my driver's license. They've already decided what kind of light bulbs we can buy and are gradually phasing out the incandescent ones. Never mind that the new ones contain many more times mercury than what's in the incandescents. And if you break one, you get to call Hazmat. As someone else said, it's just a thousand little "cuts" that eventually bleeds away freedom and liberty.
Just my .02.
You're leaving out the fact that if you get your electricity from coal, the burning of coal to power your incandescent lights over their lifespans releases just as much mercury into the atmosphere.
Granted, if you break one, all that mercury is going into your home instead of a recycling center (which is where those bulbs should go)...but whose fault is that?
btw, you do NOT need a hazmat crew to cleanup a broken CFL
- http://www.epa.gov/cfl/cflcleanup.html
- http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cfl.asp