[Rhodes22-list] Going green

[Rik Sandberg]

Rummy,

I replaced all of our bulbs (about 40 altogether) with curly 
flourescents ... Nothing scientific mind you, but it seems our elect. 
bill dropped about 8 bucks.  I'm replacing them a heck of a lot less 
often too. Payback won't take long.

Rik

R22RumRunner at aol.com wrote:
> In an attempt to lower our energy consumption within our house, I have  
> replaced all incandescent bulbs with the energy saving flourescents. Time will  
> tell what the payback will be, but it should be interesting. My initial  
> impression is that the new bulbs are much better than the earlier versions. They  take 
> a while to warm up to full output, but I haven't found it to be a  problem.
> My truck burns the new E-85 fuel. Brad claims that it's a "feel good" fuel,  
> and I can accept that. However, the end result of burning ethanol means that I 
>  am not adding to the co2 problem with the atmosphere. I like the ethanol 
> fuel. I  haven't realized any money savings to date, but that would be secondary 
> to not  burning more than 15% gasoline which is added. My recent research on 
> ethanol  informed me that they put 15% gasoline with the ethanol to prevent 
> people from  drinking the stuff. Can you imagine? A gallon of drinkable alcohol 
> for under  three dollars. We would become a nation of alcoholic drivers.
>  
> Rummy
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