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The Pluck of the Irish

Ireland will phase out incandescent light bulbs

Posted at 1:22 PM on 07 Dec 2007

So Australia wants to phase out incandescent light bulbs by 2010? Ireland plans to do it by as early as January 2009. Anybody wanna try to top that?

source:  Reuters
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Hillary will top it!

She wants to have 40% compact fluorescent by 2035 and 75% compact fluorescents by the time Miami and New York are under water.

Barach is has a more aggressive plan to phase out incandescent bulbs but will require that all new compact fluorescents be powered by coal.

Il faut cultiver notre jardin.

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