Far be it for me to be a tree-hugging nancy, spouting off nonsense and gibberish about the impending end of the world due to global warming, or whatever the new cause celebre may be. That said, when shiny new technologies show up that also, coincidentally, help out the environment, I certainly am not going to disparage it just for the general purpose of it. Furthermore, when that technology can potentially save me a fair bit of money, I might just adopt it myself. In fact, the odds are pretty good.
A few years back, I was in the market for replacing all of the various Christmas lights I had purchased over the years of college, and neither matched, nor really survived the repeated moves they were subjected to. Of course, this shopping enterprise was executed after the holiday season, so I was shopping whatever was left over, and whatever might be on sale (the more important aspect). Turns out most of the items remaining were LED holiday lights, and after a momentary degree of indecision, I figured,
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Since they use less power, and also do not use incandescent filaments, they are probably less of a fire risk, also.
Good point, forgot about that aspect.
One of my shooting buddies bought a Prius, he needs the commute mileage…
And in cases like that, there is absolutely nothing wrong with it… Hell, if I commuted more than the five miles I do each way, I might consider a hybrid of some nature. But those people who purchase those cars thinking they are doing something grand and important for the environment, or thinking its name should be spelled “Pious”, or that whole crowd… Yeah, those people get on my nerves.