Cut Your Energy Bill in Half FOR FREE!
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Cut Your Energy Bill in Half FOR FREE!
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ITS TRUE! ( if you live in a town that does this) AN JUST BY CHANGING A LIGHT BULB! Since it uses less power it will save you money AND help the environment.
Materials
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a lamp with an incandescent.
your local PUD or energy supplier, got them and see if they do a program for energy saving, mine did and hey gave us 2 boxes of cfl's, in each box it had 2 smaller oxes with 6 cfl's in it! thats a total of 24 FREE cfls and as they burn out, they give you more!
your local PUD or energy supplier, got them and see if they do a program for energy saving, mine did and hey gave us 2 boxes of cfl's, in each box it had 2 smaller oxes with 6 cfl's in it! thats a total of 24 FREE cfls and as they burn out, they give you more!
Unscrew the Old, Screw the New
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Take out your old bulb, and screw in a nice new cfl!
How Does This Help?
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well CF's use less power than normal light bulbs, heres that math to prove it
64 Watts Incandesant
14 Watts CFL
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50 Watts of saving!
64 Watts Incandesant
14 Watts CFL
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50 Watts of saving!
Savings!
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I work art afurniture store, we leave lights on over night to show off lamps, when we switched to cfls we saved about $250 dollars a month!
at my house we saved about $100 a month!
Now thats some saving!
thats about half of my electricity bill!
at my house we saved about $100 a month!
Now thats some saving!
thats about half of my electricity bill!