Energy Saver Bulbs at Morrisons
My local Morrisons store has a stand near the counter full of Philips Energy Saver lightbulbs. The offer, whilst stocks last, is for Energy Saver bulbs at just 39p each! And, better than that, you can get 5 bulbs for just 59p! Now THAT is a bargain.
I expect this is a heavily subsidised promotion because these particular bulbs have the slogan “Working with E.ON” splashed over them. E.ON are the energy company who are threatening to build the coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth, who tried to get football fans to reduce their “carbon footyprint” and whose executive Mark Owen-LLoyd recently quipped that high energy prices meant more profit for E.ON.
We grabbed a handful of 11 watt (60 watt equivalent) and 14 watt (75 watt equivalent) Genie bayonet bulbs. They’re all A band energy efficiency and good for 10,000 hours of light (around 10 years they reckon) We’ll use these in the last of our outhouses like the garage and the workshop.
So if you don’t mind having the name of an energy company with questionable ethics scrawled on the box and the fact that the things are produced in the P.R.C. then you’ve actually got a good deal subsidised by someoone else’s customers. (We use ecotricity)
