Originally Posted by mcgeedo

I was watching Discovery Channel today, idly taking in a program whose name I don't remember, that was talking about "environmental tech." The narrator casually threw out a line: "If half of the households in the United States switched just one incandescent buld to a compact fluorescent buld, it would save the equivalent of the emissions of 800,000 cars for a year."

It really ticks me off when those who want to save us from ourselves make up crap like this and try to pass it off as fact. They apparently feel that no one will fact check and call them on it, and even if someone does, the debunking won't get the same exposure. Just quote numbers, repeat it often enough and pretty soon the sheep will believe it.