Ghana distributes free energy saving bulbs

[jpak]

http://www.thestatesmanonline.com/pages/news_detail.php?newsid=4068§ion=2

The Energy Commission officially began the distribution of over six million energy saving light bulbs as part of a national campaign to conserve energy throughout the country yesterday.

The exercise, when fully implemented nation-wide, is expected to save between 200 and 240 megawatts of energy, according to experts. This, they say, is a bold attempt by the Government to tackle the energy crisis.

The national exercise began in Suhum in the Eastern Region, as it was thought this was a good sized community to test the bulbs and means the process could be completed within a week.

It is aimed to replace incandescent bulbs with the imported energy saving ones as part of Government's efforts to reduce energy consumption and to save consumers from paying high electricity bills.

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[Deja Q]

1. No doubt their government can subsidize the bulbs - like what China does with oil...

Communism sucks. :crazy:

[applegrove]

2. I don't think Ghana is communist. They may just be a non energy producing

nation that needs to cut back. Governments all over the world provide some needed services for free. All the liberal democratic countries do it. Look at the USA Medicare, free police, free firemen, etc. What a country decides to give to its people in a sort of crisis doesn't make it communist.

[razzleberry]

3. carbon offset

this is likely some type of
carbon offset program.

it is lots cheaper for the people of the EU,
to give CFLs away in Africa,
as opposed to actually reducing carbon.

of cousre, nobody involved
wants you to know that