I was in Home Depot last week and saw a display for incandescent bulbs that says "stock up while you can". I looked at the packages, and they are made by Philips, which is a Dutch company, not GE, which is our domestic supplier that has decided to stop making them. Is it ok for Holland to destroy the planet or is this just a way to eliminate another piece of the American industrial complex?
I find this very odd. It sounds like an example of viced to sell, where one company leverages on our fears of an evil to stock up, like happens to cigarettes just before a tax raise on them goes into effect. There is a brief peak in sales, and the Dutch, not Americans, are able to capitalize on this.
Who is shipping American jobs overseas then? If these bulbs continue to be available in America after our domestic supply runs out, then I contend that we have cut the GE factory workers loose and sent their jobs overseas in order to comply with environmental regulations. You don't see China worried about the environment, as its industrial juggernaut rolls forward to consume all raw materials it can manage to procure. America is the one that shoots itself in the foot.
I bought three boxes.
This is why I support the Philips Corporation, regardless of their national origins. From the Philips Corporation's Website, translated into English:
I find this very odd. It sounds like an example of viced to sell, where one company leverages on our fears of an evil to stock up, like happens to cigarettes just before a tax raise on them goes into effect. There is a brief peak in sales, and the Dutch, not Americans, are able to capitalize on this.
Who is shipping American jobs overseas then? If these bulbs continue to be available in America after our domestic supply runs out, then I contend that we have cut the GE factory workers loose and sent their jobs overseas in order to comply with environmental regulations. You don't see China worried about the environment, as its industrial juggernaut rolls forward to consume all raw materials it can manage to procure. America is the one that shoots itself in the foot.
I bought three boxes.
This is why I support the Philips Corporation, regardless of their national origins. From the Philips Corporation's Website, translated into English:
During the occupation of the Netherlands by the Nazis, Fritz remained in the Netherlands to continue managing the Philips Corporation. From May 30 until September 20, 1943, he was held in the Vught SS Work Camp after there was a strike in the factory, which was primarily worked by Jews, whom Fritz brought there by telling the Nazi overseers that they were indispensible to the production process at his plant. He saved at least 382 Jews and was awarded the Yad Vashem award in 1996 by the Israeli ambassador to Holland for his actions.
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