...but for some, it sure comes easy being a green-hypocrite! The Oprah is a prime example, hilariously highlighted for us by the Daily Show's awesome Lewis Black. On Earth Day, she awarded her live audience members with free compact flourescent lamp (CFL) bulbs, with which they are expected to go home and promptly retire their perfectly functional incandescents, thereby saving the planet from those awful devices. Furthest from her mind, surely, is the fact that each CFL contains enough mercury that, should it be dropped and broken, would require a HAZMAT team to clean up, at the expense of hundreds or thousands of dollars to the owner. The worst thing anyone likely received from a regular bulb is a finger cut. Ironically, this is the same benevolent and concerned giver who, months earlier, awarded each live audience member with a brand new car. ...A gas-powered, internal combustion, CO2-emitting car, by which each person massively increased their carbon foot-print...to say nothing of their tax liability!
...Say, you don't think she would stoop so low as to do these contradictory things just for the ratings of it all...do you?
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