After nearly 60 years of lighting our homes and streets, halogen bulbs (卤素灯泡）were stopped to be used across Europe in September, 2018. Instead, people should start to use LEDs. LEDs consume (消耗）five times less energy (能量）than halogen bulbs and using LEDs would stop more than 15 million tons of carbon emissions a year. There were some ideas about the change.
Philips, a lighting producer, thought that people would save about £112 a year from the change because LEDs could work for longer hours than halogens and LEDs use less power.
However, there were people who disagreed with the change. Jonathan Bullock, a spokesman in the European Parliament told The Guardian, "It's not right to stop the use of halogen bulbs, because people will have to spend a lot of money buying expensive LED bulbs. Poor people will lose most from these kinds of changes. People should have the chance to choose their bulbs and we shouldn't make them change if they don't want to do it."
In fact, what he said seemed not to be a good reason. The price of each halogen bulb is often lower thanthatof an LED bulb. But halogen bulbs use more energy. They only last for two years but LEDs can be used for 15 to 20 years. Each British home has about 10 halogen bulbs and uses each bulb for around three hours a day.
