Today, while driving, I was listening to this add on the radio by "Flex Your Power". They say that replacing 5 regular light bulbs with energy saving CFLs in your home is equivalent to taking off 40,000 cars off the road.
If that's true, I have taken off more than 40,000 cars of the car in the past two weeks, because I recently replaced more than 5 regular light bulbs with energy saving CFLs.
Some information about CFLs:
A Compact Fluorescent Lamp (CFL), also known as a compact fluorescent light bulb is a type of fluorescent lamp designed to replace an incandescent lamp. Many CFLs can fit in the existing incandescent light fixtures. Compared to incandescent lamps of the same luminous flux, CFLs use less energy and have a longer rated life. In the United States, a CFL can save over US$30 in electricity costs over the lamp’s lifetime compared to an incandescent lamp and save 2000 times their own weight in greenhouse gases. The initial purchase price of a CFL is higher than an incandescent lamp of the same output, but this cost is recovered in energy savings assuming average lamp use.
I got this information from Wikipedia. For more on this, go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_fluorescent_lamp
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