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OneBillionBulbs.com never encourages spamming.  However, if you could help get the word out by sending an email to your friends, family, classmates or colleagues, we would be very grateful.  In order to save you time, we have provided some sample text below that you can copy and paste into your email program.  Of course, feel free the revise the text or write your own. 

Dear friends and family, I'm writing to tell you about a website called OneBillionBulbs.com. The mission of OneBillionBulbs.com is to educate people about the cost-saving and environmental benefits of replacing standard incandescent light bulbs with energy-efficient compact fluorescent (CFL) light bulbs. If you're not familiar with CFL light bulbs, here are a few benefits: - They consume approximately 65%-75% less electricity than regular light bulbs while producing the same amount of light. - They last up to 10 times longer than regular light bulbs. In short, you will save money if you replace standard light bulbs with CFLs bulbs. For example, by replacing just one standard lightbulb with a CFL light bulb, you could save $85.00 or more over the life of that one CFL lightbulb (the actual amount you save could be a little higher or lower depending on how much you're paying for electricity). There's another huge benefit as well. By replacing standard light bulbs with CFL light bulbs, you'll be helping the environment. Over the lifetime of a typical 100 watt standard incandescent bulb, the power plants that produce the electricity consumed by that bulb will release over 100 lbs of carbon dioxide--the greenhouse gas linked to global warming. To learn more about the benefits of compact fluorescent light bulbs, visit http://www.OneBillionBulbs.com/Learn. Once you are convinced of the benefits of CFL bulbs, OneBillionBulbs.com is hoping that you'll take a few simple, concrete steps to save money and fight global warming: 1. Replace some light bulbs 2. Sign up for a free account at OneBillonBulbs.com and record your purchases so they can measure the impact of your purchase in terms of cost savings and greenhouse gas reductions. 3. Spread the word by sending emails to your friends and family (feel free to forward this email). If you have a website, blog or MySpace page, OneBillionBulbs.com has a free energy-savings calculator and customizable banner you could stick on your site. Even though you're busy, I'd like to ask you to consider getting involved. It won't take a lot of time, you'll save money, and you'll help the environment. To find out more, go to http://www.OneBillionBulbs.com.