BRIGHT(?) IDEA COPIED

Europe's environmental concern trendsetters want to copy Australia's ban the bulb plan:

Germany's environment minister Sigmar Gabriel has written to the European Commission proposing that inefficient light bulbs be banned in the EU.

"Europe can no longer afford products that, like conventional light bulbs, are only five percent efficient," Mr Gabriel wrote in the letter, according to German newspaper Bild am Sonntag.

The European commission has to be one of the least efficient gatherings of humans anywhere on the planet ever. How the hell can they afford that?