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Maverick agent claims to be light years ahead

04 September 2009

Maverick estate agent Jules Bending has caused outrage by announcing he has been stockpiling traditional light bulbs and plans to start selling them in 2012.

His new business has come under fire from the Guardian newspaper and its readers, who are predictably incandescent.

The newspaper accuses him of damaging the planet in his quest for publicity and also – worse! – of appealing to the Daily Mail readership.

Guardian readers are equally alight with rage. One has accused Bending of wanting to kill penguins.

Unabashed, Bending said: “We have been stockpiling normal light bulbs for some time in a warehouse, actually a farmer’s shed, at a secret location just beyond the Mendip Hills.”

Until now, Bending – who runs an estate agency in Glastonbury, Somerset – has been better known for his tongue-in-cheek property descriptions which have got him banned by Rightmove.

However, he may now become more illustrious for his collection of 6,700 bulbs, which he believes will fetch between £40 and £60 each when sold on to climate-change refuseniks desperate for the real thing.

The sale of ‘ordinary’ 100w light bulbs has now been banned but many people do not like the energy-saving variety, which Bending says give off a “pukey green” light.

The Daily Mail has been running a campaign against the new energy-saving light bulbs, and the Tories, in their latest ‘greenprint’ for the planet, have drawn attention to the impossibility of disposing of them safely because of the amount of toxic mercury they contain.

Comments

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    Hi Mark, more tosh. To even use £200 worth of electricity by light bulbs you would need to burn five thousand kilowatts. Try turning them off you dope.

    • 07 September 2009 10:44 AM
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    This story is Nothing to do with estate agency as far as i'm concerned.The word "maverick" and estate agent shouldn't be promoted together.As for energy saving lightbulbs....saving between £75.00(flat) and£200.00 a year(house) on the electric bill is the reason I use them.I don't want to hear some of you lot that are against them moaning about increases in energy from the suppliers.

    • 04 September 2009 15:32 PM
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    This is typical of the EU tosh. To produce a standard screw in 100 watt bulb including glass and metal uses enough power to produce six grams of carbon. To produce a low energy bulb of the equivelent lumins with the glass, metal, ceramics phosphor and mercury produces 650 grams of carbon. Phosphor and mercury are both poisons. The technology to dispose of them safely produces 490 grams of carbon.The power needed to run the standard bulb for one thousand hours produces about the same as the manufacturing six grams. For the low energy about one and a half grams. So for the life of the low energy bulb, about seven thousand hours, allegedly, would take about seven standard bulbs or 42 grams of carbon. So the low energy bulbs never recover any where near the extra carbon needed to produce and dispose of them as well as polluting the environment with poisons. A bit like nuclear power stations really. There is no logical argument for low energy bulbs or nuclear power.

    • 04 September 2009 13:36 PM
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    This fool, Bending, is so many "light years away" I fear he's on another planet! and as for "maverick estate agent" just look at his website, this bloke is a nutter!!

    • 04 September 2009 12:26 PM
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    I hope you're joking Mr Chips Willis, otherwise you just show yourself up as an ignorant moron. Perhaps you could identify the areas of the Guardian report that are biased, unlike, of course the Telegraph or Mail. I'll also have you know that Jill Insley is one of the few journalists who has written anything accurate & sensible about HIPs in the past 3 years.
    Just wait til the wildfires reach your neck of the woods, you fool.

    • 04 September 2009 11:58 AM
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    its not illegal to sell the 100W lightbulbs just to produce them so exisitng stocks do not come under the regulation. At the end of the day its good business sense - supply and demand

    • 04 September 2009 11:46 AM
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    Wow...What a Maverick?

    • 04 September 2009 11:45 AM
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    Just read the article in the Guardian. It's the sort of drivel one expects from the tree-hugging communists who write for this rag.

    Good for Jules Bending, publicity seeking or not, the bloke's a breath of fresh air.

    • 04 September 2009 11:27 AM
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    Obviously want to be a shining light in his community and beyond ! Shall he be renamed -BUZZ LIGHTBULB!

    • 04 September 2009 11:14 AM
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