JAM NOTICE FOR Friday 04/11/08 -- Light Legislation

Hi Folks… Here’s another attempt to ‘bite the bug.”                    

 

Sometimes we fail to see what’s actually happening to us.  I knew about fluorescents being pushed on us. I just had not realized Congress passed a law. Grrr.

 

PROMO LINE: Poor Tom Edison spinning in his grave as fluorescent light bulbs are mandated and his designs will become antique by 2014 if things don’t change. Listen to JUST A MINUTE at (time) today and see what’s in store for us all on WMUU at 94.5

 

Here are listening and commenting links:

 

http://www.jebcovoice.net/audio/jama04-11-08.mp3

 

http://www.jebcovoice.net/scripts/jamt04-11-08.doc

 

 

A script is enclosed for assistance in framing your comments.  

 

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Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack Buttram

 

Here’s today’s script:

 

 

 “JUST A MINUTE”

EXPENSIVE IN THE DARK

Just A Minute – By 2012 Congress says you can’t buy a 100watt, 50 cent light bulb! Tom Edison’s bulbs totally phased out by 2014 with fluorescent.

There’s nothing wrong with the 50 cent incandescent a three dollar fluorescent won’t cure, except that flatter feeling in your pocketbook. In fact GE, Sylvania and Phillips have sold them for years to five percent of the light bulb market. The rest of us dim bulbs get along with the Al Gore global warming model. So about 95 percent of us aren’t nudged into the more modern consumer category, we’re forced into it – or phased if you prefer -- by the year 2014 the old bulbs won’t be available in any wattage – unless the law is changed.

It’s true the new ones last four times as long – but they sell for six to ten times as much: a good deal if you’re GE or Phillips. Offsetting that is the $18 billion in electricity saved. But the big improvement will be on the light bulb maker’s bottom line.

Just pray Microsoft doesn’t get the same itch to pass a law requiring new computer required each year – or is that on the books already?

<> I’m Jack Buttram

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