If the old cheap incandescents are made illegal a small town of 16,000 can generate bulb usage upward of 100,000 bulbs. Now take a big city and the figure enters the millions.

We're talking catastrophic mercury poisoning of the environment, of children and of the coastlines - and for what?

The lies that these lightbulbs will save the planet from global warming or reduce greenhouse gases.

Neither is true. Electrical plants will fire just as much then as they do now, if not more as we absorb more of Mexico's population each year and these folks need housing, electricity and water.

It's all a big lie for folks who feel impotent and need to believe it will make a difference. And like most lies, it comes with a big price - in this case massive mercury poisoning of the environment.

The fish, the birds and Bambi's family would veto the law if they could, because they will be the first to die as a result.