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Subject: australia to kill thousands of dogs.


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Date Posted: 02:36:14 02/21/07 Wed
 all over the world, there are sites that say to heat your dog house in the winter put a incandescent light bulb in the dogs house. even peta says to do it. the dog houses are small and a dog does not need it to be very hot in the winter. thay will grow a heavey coat of fur in the winter.

its easyer and cheeper to change the straw and saw dust. if it gets realy cold to add a few more bulbs. now we must buy costly and easyly contamatated bed heaters. that use more power.

Australia Bans Incandescent Bulbs
SYDNEY, Australia — The Australian government on Tuesday announced plans to phase out incandescent light bulbs and replace them with more energy-efficient compact fluorescent bulbs across the country. Legislation to gradually restrict the sale of the old-style bulbs could reduce Australia's greenhouse gas emissions by 4 million tons by 2012 and cut household power bills by up to 66 percent, said Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

Australia produced almost 565 million tons of greenhouse gases in 2004, official figures show. Prime Minister John Howard said the plan would help all Australians play a part in cutting harmful gas emissions: "Here's something practical that everybody will participate in." In incandescent light bulbs, perfected for mass use by Thomas A. Edison in the late 19th century, electricity flows through a filament to create light. Much of the energy, however, is wasted in the form of heat. Australia is not the only place looking to replace them with fluorescent lighting, which is more efficient and longer lasting.

Last month, a California assemblyman announced he would propose a bill to ban the use of incandescent bulbs in his state. And a New Jersey lawmaker has called for the state to switch to fluorescent lighting in government buildings within three years. Cuba's Fidel Castro launched a similar program two years ago, sending youth brigades into homes and switching out regular bulbs for energy-saving ones to help battle electrical blackouts around the island. The idea was later embraced by Castro's friend and ally, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who announced his own program to save energy and in recent months has given away millions of incandescent bulbs in neighborhoods nationwide.

Under the Australian plan, bulbs that do not comply with energy efficiency targets would be gradually banned from sale
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Buy a low wattage heat lamp, you whinning simpNo problem10:50:19 02/21/07 Wed

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