From: "Robert Comer" 

It's not true for everyone, I started replacing my incandescents with CFL's
about 3 years ago and I have yet to have one of the CFL's burn out. They've
paid for themselves easily over incandescents...

--
Bob Comer





"George Sherwood"  wrote in message
news:pan.2007.03.01.16.02.42{at}beernabeer.com...
> On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:07:26 +0000, Phil Payne wrote:
>
>
>>
>> CFL bulbs cost a lot more energy to make than stock incandescents.  By
>> the time you plug them in, you are already behind the game.  It takes a
>> couple of years' use to recover the manufacturing load.
>
> If that is true and I have absolutely no reason to doubt it isn't. Wow!
> People really need to think life-cycle cost and not just what it will
> cost me when thinking saving money or energy.
>
> George

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5