<q> the industry wouldn't have ... if the ban hadn't been introduced <q>

...so, industry didn't build that, the gov't did?

(weak attempt at election year humor)

//
Patrick 

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From: John Woodgate [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 9:25 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PSES] Light Bulb provokquium

In message 
<CAByvTVPDdQ343GbF8=AxXZSgajd7cvH1Q=P2zp98Q+QHAD-=c...@mail.gmail.com>, 
dated Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Doug Powell <[email protected]> writes:

>Make the alternative bulbs economically competitive and dump the 
>legislation.

Chicken and egg; the industry wouldn't have spend a lot of R&D $$$ on 
CFLs and LED lamps if the ban hadn't been introduced. Prices are coming 
down, but not equal yet.
-- 
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Instead of saying that the government is doing too little, too late or
too
much, too early, say they've got is exactly right, thus throwing them
into
total confusion.
John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK

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