European Parliament Exposed

[Husar]

This is a not so witty tangent but I will humor you.

And of course one can not object to the mandated mercury vapor lamps on safety reasons, even though they have a tendency to violently explode. Because they are so green and energy saving.

Endangering the public is perfectly all right if it is done in a good cause. Spending a few thousand euro to clean up the spill is noting in comparison to the energy saved by all those light and it has to come from the consumers pocket, and if he doesn’t spend it, then he only leaves the house as a health hazard for a decade or two.

Other alternatives were not available at the time, but no big deal, right?

The European Parliament only has the peoples best interests at heart and are infallible so this is only a misperception. And what if some people get sick or die, look at all the energy it saved and a few less people to feed.

How caring of them!

Regardless of how green you are, if you don’t see anything wrong in this approach then you should invest heavily in bridges and swampland.

First of all there are LED lightbulbs and even if they were hardly available when this law was made, it may just have caused them to surface even faster.
Secondly the amount of serious CFL accidents lacks some credible statistics, anecdotal evidence is not very useful.
Thirdly, cars kill more people than CFLs and we still continue to use them, the endangering the public argument is full of fake outrage and hyperbole.

Let me quote you right back:

You seem to like to take things to illogical extremes.

That said, there's no doubt that LED is superior to CFL but noone should really miss incandescents.