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Power-Sipping Bulbs Get Backing From Wal-Mart

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/02/business/02bulb.html?hp&ex=1167714000&en=9409af1703f27e3b&ei=5059&partner=AOL

MICHAEL BARBARO
Published: January 2, 2007
As a way to cut energy use, it could not be simpler. Unscrew a light bulb that uses a lot of electricity and replace it with one that uses much less.
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While it sounds like a promising idea, it turns out that the long-lasting, swirl-shaped light bulbs known as compact fluorescent lamps are to the nation’s energy problem what vegetables are to its obesity epidemic: a near perfect answer, if only Americans could be persuaded to swallow them.

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