Comments on: The Federal Light Bulb Police Squad Has Been Established

By: dave m

dave m — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:20:45 +0000

Aspartame, also branded as nutra-sweet, is an artificial sugar
substitute put in many diet colas and low calorie products.
Check it out on the net, but the problem is that aspartame
is broken down in the small intestine first to methyl-alcohol
and then to formaldehyde and formic acid. These are both
nerve poisons.

This has been argued about for at least two decades,
the general argument of the regulatory authorities is
“so what, lots of stuff contains methyl alcohol – wine (crap wine)
for example.” (Don’t even get me started about crap wine)

Uh gee, so badly fermented beverages contain methyl alcohol
as opposed to the desired ethyl alcohol. Like that’s an excuse?
I don’t want to sound like some sort of paranoid health food nut.
I am not one of those.
You can yahoo or google methanol poisoning and work
it out yourselves. There is a reason why alcoholic drinks containing
methanol are less harmful than methanol alone.

It is standard poison treatment advice that first aid treatment
for a victim of methyl alcohol (methanol) poisoning is to administer
real booze (ethyl alcohol) in stiff dosages. This is because
while methyl alcohol is not deadly in itself, the liver breaks it
down as I mentioned above into formaldehyde and formic acid.
The silver lining is that the liver when confronted with both methyl
alcohol and ethyl alcohol chooses to metabolize the ethyl alcohol
first, thus leaving the onset of the deadly problem until later,
by which time it is hoped competent medical detox can become
available.

Bottom line? Methyl alcohol, by itself, is a nerve killer. That’s
why they say those skid row meth drinkers lose their eyesight.
Aspartame is broken down into methyl alcohol, without the shield
of ethyl alcohol to protect you. So one of those MAX drinks
does you more harm than a big icy regular Coke.

Get fat – stay happy.

Hope that helps.

By: VinceP1974

VinceP1974 — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:58:47 +0000

What’s wrong with aspertine?

By: dave m

dave m — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:21:40 +0000

This needs to be vetoed. Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs are an
extreme danger if the home.

I broke one, while lit, about four months ago and am only just
now recovering. Mercury poisoning (via inhalation of the gaseous
mercury contained in a lit up CFL) is no joke folks. In minute
quantities it is an extremely powerful central nervous system
disabler.

Don’t say you won’t break one. You will, or your kids will.
They might not be able to tell you they feel bad, they will just
be affected and develop learning problems, psychological
behavior disorders and the list is pretty long.

I think you’ll find the medical profession doesn’t do much to
help you and the body eliminates mercury from the body at a
very slow rate. Half life in blood is 60 days. Plus unless you
clean your hose like it was a radiation contamination event,
you’ll keep re-exposing yourself.

This is a bigger scandal than Aspartame.

I intend to buy a lifetime supply of incandescent bulbs next year.
If you don’t want my bulbs to contribute to the generation of
carbon dioxide – build nuclear plants. DOH.

By: Terrye

Terrye — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:37:47 +0000

I think this was inevitable. It was a relatively painless way to save billions in energy in a year. Besides that towns and cities all over the country have made it impossible to burn wood because of air quality. Government does stuff like this all the time. Cafe standards in cars, etc.

By: MerlinOS2

MerlinOS2 — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:20:24 +0000

Once again they duplicate exactly what the EU mandated a little over a year or so back.

If they want to be like France or Belgium please move!

Nanny state replaces consumer choice. With energy bills climbing most consumers would use some of the CFL types where they can, but to mandate it is a bit much.