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Nova Scotia ponders light-bulb switch

“We’re certainly moving towards that, but we’re not going to make them mandatory just now. We have to be very sensitive to a whole bunch of things that surround that - wholesalers, retailers,” Dooks said Tuesday.

He expects it could be four or five years before a ban is in place.

Dooks said changing to newer bulbs will help save money and be easier on the environment in the long run by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

What we need here is not the promise of a ban in a few years, but a ban put in place now, a liquidation of the incandescent bulbs already around, and a time limit on when to get these new (well, not NEW, because they’ve been around for about five years now) bulbs as the standard. The same thing’s been done with HD broadcasting, which will be the widely accepted norm in a year or so, thanks to similar legislation.

Is it a bad thing to be creating laws that force people to use less power?

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