Lights out in Australia
25th 2007f February, 2007, PeterThe conservative Australian government has joined Cuba and Venezuala in deciding to make the sale of incandescent light bulbs illegal from 2010 and force everyone to replace them with fluorescent bulbs. As seems typical of the climate-change-sceptical administration of John Howard, this action is all sound-and-fury, achieving little.
“The Government boasts that banning incandescents will [...]
