SIR - Friends of the Earth spokesman Chris Crean asked householders to reduce the use of electricity by changing to the new low-energy type bulbs and other measures such as not leaving your TV on standby.

I think this is laughable when you can go into any large TV rental company premises and find hundreds of TV receivers all screaming out the same pictures. The saving of changing half a dozen light bulbs is probably the equivalent of switching off one of these sets. Why don't the Friends of the Earth get real?

G HUTCHINSON,

Worcester.