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From conservativeactionalerts.com Fellow Conservative, Center for Defense of Free Enterprise Action Fund (CDFE Action Fund) is committed to promoting American values, and their local and national ad campaigns have consistently delivered for the conservative cause. Right now they need your support to get the message out about the Democrats now taking control over what light bulbs we use!! The legislation that has passed by the Democrats raises the cost of a single light bulb to $50! This means that in the average home, an annual light bulb expense would range from $500 to $2,250!! And because they burn out and need to be replaced the cost could two to three times that basic expenditure! CDFE Action Fund is working on a campaign to help support Senator Enzi's BULB Act and urge Congress to vote for his and its companion bill in the House, H.R. 6411. We stand by CDFE Action Fund and support their efforts to end this craziness and having every part of our lives controlled by federal bureaucrats! Reach out, CDFE Action Fund needs our help! Sincerely, Tony Adkins Conservative Action Alerts Friend of Free Enterprise: Democrats in Congress passed legislation that raises the cost of a single light bulb to $50! This means that the cost to light a modest home in the U.S. would be between $500 and $2,250; and homeowners would pay that price twice, or even three times each year, as LED bulbs burn out and need to be replaced. In 2007, the Pelosi-Reid Democratic majority in Congress passed the Renewable Fuels, Consumer Protection and Energy Efficient Act, a law that bans traditional incandescent light bulbs by including new lighting efficiency standards that will phase out the use of 100 watt and 75 watt incandescent light bulbs, and requires the production of compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs), halogen and LED bulbs. The Associated Press reports that since traditional incandescent light bulbs will be banned in January, stores will begin selling expensive LED bulbs (up to $50 each), in just a few months. Why should a select few legislators in 2007 be able to tell hundreds of millions of Americans what light bulbs are best for them? Asked Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), who introduced the Better Use of Light Bulbs (BULB) Act that would restore Americans freedom to choose the type of light bulbs they want to buy for their homes and businesses. Why do we have a federal government so intent on taking away people's choices and limiting their options? It's time the federal government starts worrying less about what light bulbs people buy and more about how it's going fix the deficit. Please FAX every member of Congress to urge them to vote for Sen. Enzi's BULB Act and its companion bill in the House, H.R. 6411, so that our lives will not have to be run by federal bureaucrats or crazy environmentalists. We must ACT NOW to save our free enterprise system from the green energy advocates who believe Americans should pay $50 a light bulb for expensive LEDs or risk toxic exposure from harmful CFLs. Please include a DONATION to the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise Action Fund, so we can continue to alert Americans about politicians' schemes to dismantle the U.S. free enterprise system. If members of Congress refuse to pass Sen. Enzi's BULB Act (S.395), and its companion bill in the House, H.R. 6411 that was introduced by Reps. Joe Barton (R-Texas), Michael Burgess (R-Texas), and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), then everyone who wants to buy and use traditional incandescent light bulbs in their homes or businesses will be forced to move to South Carolina! Since Congress in 2007 passed the federal energy law that bans the production of traditional incandescent light bulbs, legislators in South Carolina recently passed a bill that trumps the federal energy standards and will allow manufactures in South Carolina to make and sell traditional incandescent light bulbs, but they can ONLY be manufactured and purchased in South Carolina. If Congress refuses to PASS the BULB Act, then those of us who don't live in the Palmetto state will be FORCED to buy EXPENSIVE $50 LEDs or TOXIC CFLs! CFLs, a light bulb invention that was once believed to be an energy and environmental solution to America's problems, is quickly becoming a more expensive and dangerous alternative that American families cannot afford. The US News and World Report said: Consumers are rightly concerned about the toxic substance mercury that helps CFLs produce light. Energy Star, a division of the EPA, reports that if a CLF is broken inside a home or office, humans must leave the premises for three hours after removing a broken bulb. Sen. Enzi says that the EPA doesn't like the new bulbs because the amount of mercury in one bulb is enough to contaminate up-to 6,000 gallons of water beyond safe drinking levels. Along with that frightening predicament, fluorescent light bulbs also emit minute particles of X-ray and other electromagnetic pollutants, including mercury, that pose potential health risks. Researchers have also determined that CFLs can cause headaches and eye strain, and can hinder productivity for those who are dyslexic or suffer from attention deficit disorders. By barring Americans from buying incandescent light bulbs in favor of CFLs, LEDs and halogen light bulbs, environmentalists said the country would reduce energy consumption by $18 billion a year, or save consumers between $80 and $180 on their electric bills each year. Environmentalists also said that banning the Thomas Edison incandescent light bulb would reduce global warming, because they claimed that one of the causes of global warming is traditional light bulbs. Please FAX every member of Congress to urge them to vote for Sen. Enzi's BULB Act and its companion bill in the House, H.R. 6411, so that our lives will not have to be run by federal bureaucrats or crazy environmentalists. We must ACT NOW to save our free enterprise system from the green energy advocates who believe Americans should pay $50 a light bulb for expensive LEDs or risk toxic exposure from harmful CFLs. Please include a DONATION to the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise Action Fund, so we can continue to alert Americans about politicians' schemes to dismantle the U.S. free enterprise system. Now, the environmentalists' story has changed! According to The Mercury News, The nation's accelerating shift from incandescent bulbs to a new generation of energy-efficient lighting is raising an environmental concern -- the release of tons of mercury every year. CFLs account for a quarter of new bulb sales and each contains up-to five milligrams of mercury, a potent neurotoxin that's on the worst-offending list of environmental contaminants. The Association of Lighting and Mercury Recyclers reports that: Demand for the bulbs is growing as federal and state mandates for energy-efficient lighting takes effect, yet only about two percent of residential consumers and one-third of businesses recycle them. If the recycling rate remains as abysmally low as it is, then there will certainly be more mercury released into the environment, said Paul Abernathy, executive director of the Napa-based recycling association. Until the public really has some kind of convenient way to take them back, it's going to be an issue. In seven months, your traditional light bulbs will be banned from store shelves! Democrats in Congress have mandated that you must give up using traditional light bulbs all because environmentalists believed that traditional light bulbs caused global warming. (Even though scientists today are telling us we are entering into a solar cooling phase that will decrease the average temperatures on Earth during the next 30- to 80-years.) As we suffer through 9 percent unemployment, this is no time to force Americans to purchase expensive LEDs, at $50 each, which can cost consumers a minimum of $500 to $2,250 three times a year, just to maintain light in their homes. From the health insurance you're allowed to have, to the car you can drive, to the light bulbs you can buy, Washington is making too many decisions that are better left to people who work for their own paychecks and earn their own living, said Rep. Barton (R-Texas). Tell Congress to vote FOR the BULB ACT, because it will save jobs, save money, and give Americans the FREEDOM to purchase the light bulbs they want. Please FAX every member of Congress to urge them to vote for Sen. Enzi's BULB Act and its companion bill in the House, H.R. 6411, so our lives do not have to be run by federal bureaucrats or environmentalists. We must ACT NOW to save our free enterprise system from the green energy advocates who believe Americans should pay $50 a light bulb for expensive LEDs or risk toxic exposure from harmful CFLs. Please include a DONATION to the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise Action Fund, so we can continue to alert Americans about politicians' schemes to dismantle the U.S. free enterprise system. In seven months, you will be required to purchase expensive LEDs at $50 each, or buy harmful CFLs that emits toxic mercury vapors. Case in point: Brandy Bridges, a resident of Ellsworth, Maine, dropped and shattered a CFL on the carpeted floor of her daughter's bedroom and wound up paying $2,000 to clean up the toxic mercury residue. Having known that CFLs are potentially hazardous, Bridges called her local Home Depot to ask for advice, and was told that since CFLs contain mercury, she should contact the Poison Control hotline. The hotline told Bridges to contact Maine's Department of Environmental Protection. The DEP sent Andrew Smith, a toxicologist, to her home to seal-off her daughter's bedroom with plastic. Smith then told Bridges that the fee to clean up the toxic mercury from the $3 CFL was $2,000. The level of mercury toxicity in Bridges' downstairs living area was safely under 300 mg/m3. However, the mercury level spiked to 1,939 mg/m3 in her daughter's bedroom. Bridges, a single mom with limited financial means, filed a claim with her homeowner's policy. The insurance company denied her claim because mercury is a pollutant that wasn't covered in her policy. Smith said he believed the contamination was localized at the spot where the bulb broke, adding that mercury is dangerous to anyone who has experienced long-term exposure to the chemical element. Now remember, the above scenario is about CFLs, the replacement to the traditional incandescent light bulb that you've used your entire life, and that will be banned from store shelves in seven months. As the world listened to eco-alarmist Al Gore's rant about traditional light bulbs being one of the sources of global warming, General Electric was applying to the U.S. Department of Energy (on Dec. 15, 1997), for an advanced waiver of domestic and foreign invention rights on CFLs under DOE Contract No. DE-FC36-97G010236, waiver W (A)-07-024, CN-0929. If Thomas Edison had been watching the stealth movement by environmentalists to ban incandescent light bulbs in favor of CFLs worldwide, he would have been doing angry cartwheels in his grave. We must ACT NOW to urge members of Congress to REPEAL the 2007 green energy benchmark that would require every American to buy expensive $50 LEDs and toxic CFLs…as safe Tom Edison light bulbs are outlawed. Most Republican Senators support Sen. Enzi's BULB Act that has 27 Republican co-sponsors. Many Democrats were cajoled into believing that the 2007 bill will eliminate many greenhouse gasses and be less harmful to the environment. However, the new LED light bulbs will cost roughly SIX TIMES the cost of the light bulbs we now use, and the toxic CFLs almost require a hazmat team to change them. Sen. Enzi said: If left alone, the best bulb will win its rightful standing in the marketplace. What a revolutionary concept. Free enterprise! Please FAX every member of Congress to urge them to vote for the BULB Act and H.R. 6411, so our lives do not have to be run by federal bureaucrats or environmentalists. We must ACT NOW to save our free enterprise system from the green energy advocates who believe Americans should pay $50 a light bulb for expensive LEDs or risk toxic exposure from harmful CFLs. Please include a DONATION to the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise Action Fund, so we can continue to alert Americans about politicians' schemes to dismantle the U.S. free enterprise system. How many politicians does it take to change a light bulb? It takes 218 in the House and 51 in the Senate.Help put an end to governmental interference in our lives! And, help put an end to Mr. Obama's interference with the Free Enterprise system! Join thousands of your fellow Americans and send faxes to every member of Congress to tell them to vote for the BULB Act! Your financial assistance to CDFE Action Fund is urgently needed now so that together we can urge members of Congress support and vote for the BULB Act. Sincerely, Ron Arnold Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise Action Fund www.cdfe.org/cdfe-action-fund P. S. Together we can urge members of Congress to pass the BULB Act that will give Americans the freedom to buy any light bulb they choose - traditional incandescent, toxic CFLs or expensive LEDs that will cost $50 each. CLICK HERE to FAX Congress to urge your representatives to vote for the BULB Act and H.R. 6411. If the BULB Act fails, then every American will be forced to buy toxic CFLs or expensive LEDs---YOU WON'T HAVE A CHOICE! 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