Mike,
You are so right about China.
And look at the printing on your CFL bulbs, most likely, MADE IN CHINA.
Imagine the environmental nightmare those factories are creating.
Just like current Hybrid cars.
The Nickel Metal Hydride batteries are ALL processed in China, because the ungodly dirty process of converting the Nickel into the metal hydride is too expensive to do in countries like Japan, where the environmental laws are so strict.
Another example, people on the US East Coast who would rather die than allow offshore oil rigs along the Atlantic Seaboard or in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida, but happily buy gas made from Nigerian crude.
Google “Nigerian Pipeline Disaster” if you want to see what the pseudoenvironmentalists have chosen for themselves. Better the environmental disaster they can’t see than controllable, responsible resource recovery in their own country…
