Jim Lane

Last month I was at B&K supply house picking up 42-watt CFL's and cases of 48" tubes for a job and he told me to be think about stocking up on what I need because the main ingredient phosphor used in in manufacturing florescent lamps comes exclusively from China and they are going to stop production and raise the price well over 1000%.

They claim they are doing this to upgrade the pollution controls of the mining and manufacturing.

Now that since 2007 they begin phasing out regular incandescent light bulbs and we are forced to used the CFL to save energy and have a much longer service life (I have had more electrical fires from flaming twist CFL's than any other reason and they last average 4 to 6 months.) we will be forced to pay up to 50.00/ 75.00 for each lamp in our house.

This is going to be very costly when you have to re lamp hundreds of fixtures like I do.

Then we were talking about recycling the expired lamps and how they would do that, will they charge you a deposit fee when you buy the lamp like a CRV on a water bottle or would you have to register the lamp like you do when you purchase ammunition?

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/...hosphor-crisis

http://www.frontierlighting.net/2011...ighting-world/

Here is the latest way that China is going to screw us over.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/China-....html?x=0&.v=1

Doesn't make sense that our country has to rely on something that is made exclusively from a country that hates us.

Jim

06RAM2500

Going green is costing us a lot of green.

whiskers

Vote Them Out!!!!!!!

rebal

I thought that the incandescent light bulb bill did not pass? so we will still have reg. bulbs? and fwiw I have been going out of my way to make sure I am buying USA made items hard but thats how I feel about China.one day there going to lob a nuke in here and were giving them the know how ether freely or stolen tech.

BearKiller

Tell me more about this electrical fire business with the CFL twisty bulbs ???

I have been using a few of them in places that are not so easy to get at to replace bulbs, as they do seem to last a couple months, whereas the plain old incandescants barely last a week anymore; but, I don't like the smokey look and the melted tubes when they do go bad.

Back in old-timey days, a plain old light-bulb would last a couple years.

BC847

Perhaps the price of the LED bulbs will come down fast enough to make the CFLs obsolete as well.

Thundercraft

We can only hope.

Anyone smell conspiracy here?

Hvytrkmech

I was thinking the same thing.

I been eying the led's here for a while and there prices are dropping reasonably quick.

Totallyrad

Jim, this got me to looking around a little. Office Depot has cases of 30, 34 watt, 48" bulbs for $135.