REASONS TO REPLACE YOUR INCANDESCENT BULB WITH A CFL
- Long Life - CFLs last approximately 10 X as long as incandescent light bulbs.
- Low Cost - Tru Light™ offers CFL bulbs at the super low cost of $3 and $4, about half the average retail price.
- Energy Saving - NYC’s electricity demand keeps increasing. By 2008, we will need an additional 5 medium power plants worth of electricity to keep up. Using energy efficient products, such as CFLs, reduces the need to build more power plants. 90% of the electricity that passes through an incandescent is wasted as heat, and only 10% becomes light. The CFL is 4x as efficient, converting 40% of the electricity into light.
- Pollution Reducing - If every light bulb in America were replaced with a CFL, we could shut down 40 large power plants and save $10 Billion a year. If every NYC household changed just 2 bulbs, the electricity conserved would equal the same amount generated at the 14th St. plant power in Manhattan.
If every household in the U.S. replaced just ONE incandescent light bulb with a CFL, it would eliminate the equivalent of the emissions created by one million cars.
