For the Love of Green

[sylvie]

This in our news today about our electric company sending everyone two cf bulbs, charging $10.80 each and adding the fee to our electric bill. This is their idea of a compliant green program to reduce energy. It looks more like a hefty green profit. There is no op out to the program. The bulbs are not free.

http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/news_article.aspx?storyid=122922&catid=3

and a response:
http://consumerist.com/5376001/firstenergy-forces-light-bulbs-on-customers-for-1080-each

 

[keljonma]

Thanks for the links, sylvie.

Our PUCO at work... blah! I cannot type what I really feel about this issue.

Say what you will, I have always loved Dennis Kucinich.

 

[me&thegals]

PUCO?

Sounds like a really cruddy deal!

 

[sylvie]

PUCO-Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.
But yeah, they are cruddy and in the pockets of big business.

 

[big brown horse]

That is funny, at the local farmer's market our city was giving everyone 2 cf bulbs for free! My daughter scored 2 and I got 2.

Your deal does sound cruddy. :/

 

[me&thegals]

and the problem, unlike Wal-Mart, it's a little tougher to boycott your utility company! How exactly would one protest something like this? Duh. Stuff like this gives "green" a bad name.

 

[sylvie]

That is funny, at the local farmer's market our city was giving everyone 2 cf bulbs for free! My daughter scored 2 and I got 2.

Your deal does sound cruddy. :/

And overpriced!
A few years back I got free "Fresh CFLs" that remove odors from rooms through First Energy, along with a free T shirt. The bulbs didn't even last a year. I bet the bill for these Cfl's lasts longer than the bulbs themselves.

 

[DrakeMaiden]

OMG I would be red-faced !

If they didn't contain mercury, I would think a CFL smashing party would be in order.

 

[sylvie]

and the problem, unlike Wal-Mart, it's a little tougher to boycott your utility company! How exactly would one protest something like this? Duh. Stuff like this gives "green" a bad name.

So true!

 

[sylvie]

Say what you will, I have always loved Dennis Kucinich.

Why is it that the only lawmaker able to read between the lines is the one lampooned the most?