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Current Events => Economics => Topic started by: Chris_ on September 20, 2010, 12:11:49 PM
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Light bulb factory closes; End of era for U.S. means more jobs overseas
WINCHESTER, VA. - The last major GE factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs in the United States is closing this month, marking a small, sad exit for a product and company that can trace their roots to Thomas Alva Edison's innovations in the 1870s.
The remaining 200 workers at the plant here will lose their jobs.
What made the plant here vulnerable is, in part, a 2007 energy conservation measure passed by Congress that set standards essentially banning ordinary incandescents by 2014. The law will force millions of American households to switch to more efficient bulbs.
Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/07/AR2010090706933.html)
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I absolutely rage when I read stuff like this.
Reminds me of the moratorium in the Gulf. Dumbo ordered the moratorium and 23,000 jobs were lost. No American oil. We give Brazil and Mexico both 2 billion dollars each so they can start to do deep water drilling,.......in the Gulf!! And these wells are in deeper water than what BP's well was. Therefor, keeping us dependent on foreign oil.
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conveniently omitted from the article was any mention of mercury, which is an environmental problem. CFLs have to be disposed of as hazardous material.
Freakin' 'tards.