I tried a package of two of the high-efficiency incandescent light bulbs that the government wants us to use instead of regular light bulbs. Both of them, one at a time, have now burned out while a regular bulb in the neighboring socket has kept going, and it wasn’t even fresh when I put the first eco-bulb in.
Also one notices immediately that the eco-bulbs are poorly made — I had trouble screwing them into the socket. But at least they cost six times as much as the regular bulbs used to cost.
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