| # | Name | Comments |
|---|
| 151 | Anonymous | |
| 152 | Chris Felton | |
| 153 | Elizabeth Wood | |
| 154 | Nicole Lemmon | |
| 155 | Shoshanna Krall | I am a community organizer who spends a great part of my life either teaching outdoor education or organizing sustainable events for the local Jewish community. I care a great deal about my effect on the planet.
I am also a highly sensitive person who can hardly stand the CFL light bulbs. Their spectrum is awful on my eyes. I can not only see the flickering- yes, even with the new ones!- I can also hear them buzzing. Rather than use CFLs, I will go back to candle light, or buy bulbs on the black market. They make me ill and drive me outside.
I also believe that the detrimental effects of the mercury in CFLs on women and children, in particular, may outweigh the positive effects- if any!- of this switch. We need to think these things through! |
| 156 | Gayle Mumma | My husband has daily migraines that are only treatable about 8 weeks out of every 3 months with Botox. One of the things that makes him worse is light. Please don't make his life any harder than it already it.
Thanks for your consideration. |
| 157 | David Scidmore | Congress again is trying to screw over many Americans. I get Tension headaches and Migraines about 4 times a week
I also have Autism and get really uncomfortable under CFLs and have actually missed a lot of school time due to them |
| 158 | Corynne Hilbert | |
| 159 | Anonymous | I know that flourescent lighting can trigger a migraine for me! |
| 160 | Jennifer | |
| 161 | VL Burke | Personally, I get migraines daily even while taking preventitive medication 3x a day. My migraines have disabled me enough now. CFL lighting wouldn't even let me be free in my own home.
If you have never suffered chronic migraines, you have no idea the level of pain we suffer and the sickness that accompanies what I call "hospital grade migraines"
There HAS to be an alternative to CFL's. We are Americans and should always have a CHOICE. I can't believe this law could even pass Congress would pass such a law without alternatives necessary for those American people that can't tolerate CFL. Migraines are not an unknown illness. Con on guys let's get real here.
Those that can use CFL's will out weigh those fo us that cannot, so our environment will be just fine.
Good Grief, let's just go back to gas lighting or candles! That'll save the planet even more. Yes, let's ALL go candle lighting!! See how many environmentalists will get on that band-wagon! |
| 162 | Sarah Hackley | |
| 163 | Jean Chick | I have had migraines since I was 16 and am now 73. I have experienced this problem with the above. My granddaughters suffer from this also and I know they have the same experiences I have had. Please help us out!! |
| 164 | Anonymous | |
| 165 | Aaron Eichenseer | |
| 166 | Anonymous | Following installation of new energy efficient lighting in my workplace 6 years ago I developed uncontrollable vestibular migraine. The connection was made with correct diagnosis by 2 neurologists in 2006. I had never experienced any symptoms or headaches prior to installation of these lights. I now work in inacandescent lighting. The global phase out of incandescent lights is absurd and will place me, a fully productive contributor to the Australian economy, on a disability pension, and I will have to live in the dark after sundown and no longer able to provide for my family. Obviously these 'green' decisions are not made on a sound sustainable economic basis. I wish my American colleagues good luck with their campaign. |
| 167 | Anonymous | |
| 168 | Erin K. Moore | |
| 169 | Amy Szmania | |
| 170 | Sharon Werley | |
| 171 | Anonymous | As a voracious reader I also will not use the new bulbs. Not enough light and tires out my eyes very quickly. Quit regulating our lives!! |
| 172 | Norman Goss | |
| 173 | Ellen Berman | |
| 174 | Alexandra Queen | I can spend about 10 minutes under a flourescent light before I start to feel nauseated. A two hour committee meeting under flourescents can make me sick for days. All day conference? Forget it. Conversely, even a room that is half halogen lighting (provided I don't have to sit in the flourescent half) can create survivable visual "pockets" for me that enable me to last hours longer in the room and save me days of impacted work productivity (not to mention the physical distress). This issue impacts the HELL out of my ability to work, both in performance and in sheer loss of hours due to illness. |
| 175 | Phoebe King | |
| 176 | Stephanie | |
| 177 | Alicia | |
| 178 | Debby Hamilton | |
| 179 | Rayna Morrison | |
| 180 | Anonymous | |
| 181 | kim martin | |
| 182 | Melanie Buzek | Flourescent lights are not healthy overall. They cause neurlogical disorganization also known as "switching" in the brain. Although these are cheaper light sources and do not put off the same amount of heat as incandescent lights, they are more harmful to the humans, plants and animals that have to endure them. Please check out John N. Ott's research. |
| 183 | Anonymous | Thanks for understanding. "Normal" people think we migraineurs are just hypochondriacs & whiners. So glad that someone else understands. |
| 184 | Anonymous | |
| 185 | Anonymous | My home is currently my sanctuary away from fluorescent lights. I don't know how to take care of myself at home after 2012 when I need lighting. |
| 186 | jann tilzey | |
| 187 | Kathy Shreck | Please listen to this petition. These lights make my headaches so bad. My kids and husband need me. I can't have a life with my headaches out of control. I have tried having these lights. I cannot have them around. For some, they are like posion! |
| 188 | Scott Zezza | |
| 189 | Carole M. Lechner | I am a sufferer of SLE (systemic lupus erythematosus) and I know that these types of lights do effect me. I was a secretary for years and was constantly having flares because of the fluorescent lighting I was working under. |
| 190 | Ron Sondergaard | |
| 191 | Suzanne Ammons | |
| 192 | Erin Logan | Anything to help prevent migraines/migraine triggers! |
| 193 | Craig Seward | Fluorescent lights have destroyed my health! |
| 194 | Anonymous | |
| 195 | Nanette Wolff | |
| 196 | Jenny Brown | I'm fully supportive of energy conservation and environmental protection issues, but I know what a migraine attack feels like (daily, at that), and do not wish for the attacks (or chance of them) to increase for any human being, ever. |
| 197 | Julie Wagman | Please do not pass this legislation - anything that can trigger migraines should not be mandated. |
| 198 | Anonymous | |
| 199 | Cheryl Smith | I am getting migraines about 6 to 7 hours after sitting 3 hours in a college class room where CFLs are used. |
| 200 | Susan Ervin | I am actually an ecologically friendly person. I thought that CFLs were a wonderful invention. However, now I am inclined to wonder if perhaps the CFLs in my home are triggering my migraine attacks. Thank you very much for that info. |