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In article <31A10FF7.5C54@mail.nantucket.net> Leroy Anderson <leroy@mail.nantucket.net> writes:
>From: Leroy Anderson <leroy@mail.nantucket.net>
>Subject: Re: Phillips Compact Fluorescents @ Home Despot
>Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 20:36:07 -0400

>Jym Dyer wrote:
>> 
     <mentioned that Home Depot has CFs on sale, and now may be the time to
      try them>
>> 

>You may want to ask your electric utility co. if they sell the bulbs as part of
>their >energy conservartion participation, I know on Nantucket Island 
>Massachusetts the Co. does sell them for $9.00 each regardless of size.

If you have a Eco-Expo in your area (the one in Los Angeles is in March
of each year), GO TO IT!  Here in L.A. the two electric utilities have booths 
where they hand out coupons for 4 CFs - you take the coupon to one of the 
several CF vendor booths and they hand you your 4 choices of a 9w stick unit, 
a 22w circle unit, or a 12w (I think) stubby stick unit.  I paid the $5-$8 (I 
for get what it was) entry fee for myself, my wife and my uncle, and all of us 
were given 2 coupons - in two years over 85% of the interior and exterior 
lamps are now CF.  Yes, they blink a couple of times when you turn them on,
and that is a little anoying, but after a month or two you find yourself 
ignoring it. I've left the bedside lamps incandescent as you can't dim a 
CF with a normal dimmer.