Customers buy up traditional light bulbs before switch to low energy alternatives - Telegraph

Shopkeepers say customers are "panic-buying" armfuls of the 100 watt bulbs, which are becoming increasingly scarce since many supermarkets agreed to phase them out ahead of the end-of-August deadline.

The ban on sales is supported by the government, which wants consumers to switch to low energy compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) to help meet its climate change targets.
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However Brian Smillie, managing director of Edinburgh general store Gray's of George Street, said: "A lot of our customers are not convinced that these new bulbs, which will end up on landfill sites, are any better and do not see why they should not have the choice to buy what they wish. We are selling lots of the traditional bulbs, sometimes at up to 50 at a time, and we keep having to scrap around to find new suppliers to restock the shelves."
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The European Commission has admitted the bulb switch may lead to the loss of as many as 3,000 jobs in Europe because most incandescent bulbs sold in the EU are made there, while most integrated electronic lights such as compact fluorescent lamps are made in the Far East.

Clinging to his religion » Obama Continues to Advance Climate Change Agenda

This really infuriates me. Obama has unilaterally (remember how they hit Bush so hard for all his so-called unilateralism, even though he sought international support for the Afghanistan and Iraq invasions?) enabled the government to damage the economy, for the sake of chasing an unproven scientific theory. He has got to go in 2012.