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Friday, April 24, 2009

Tunbridge Wells Journal - Holdouts for Humble Bulb Defy a Government Phase-Out - NYTimes.com

Tunbridge Wells Journal - Holdouts for Humble Bulb Defy a Government Phase-Out - NYTimes.com: "Let some government official come in and tell me I can’t sell these,” Jonathan Wright, who has owned Classic Lighting for 40 years, said defiantly as he surveyed his warren of upscale light fixtures and shelves filled with neatly stacked bulbs. “I’ll find them wherever I can get them and sell them for whatever they cost. People are buying in bulk because they want them.”

Mr. Wright says that in the last two months he has sold 3,000 of the 100-watt bulbs — the traditional mainstay of British light fixtures — more than 30 times the usual. People are buying 10 at a time, the limit per customer, even though their price is nearly 50 percent higher than it was a year ago."


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