[Mr. K]

Use 30% of the energy (to run) ... use 3000% of the energy to produce, last half as long (I know I went through an ENTIRE CASE of these stupid things already)

and they contain MERCURY

how long before we hear the stories of those EVIIIIIIIIL corporations trying to poison us with mercury?

[Da Coyote]

Too much info there.

Simple rule:

If a liberal recommends it, it’s a scientific and economic disaster.

It’s a simple rule because liberals are simple people.

Very simple.

[hal ogen]

Time to stock-up on incandescents!

[1951Boomer]

Foreseeing this idiocy, I have been hoarding the old-fashioned light bulbs—mainly because I detest those horrid-looking, wormy new spiral ones. Another reason is because if the geniuses say I shouldn’t use them anymore, it’s all the more certain I’ll use them until not another single one is available!

[Ev Reeman]

I know people who are buying the old light bulbs dozens at a time and hoarding them.

[DJ MacWoW]

I hate CFL’s.

[Fresh Wind]

CFLs produce RF interference that degrades AM and short wave radio reception.

[grobdriver]

I guess I'll buy a second locker and start stuffing it with incandescent bulbs as well.
That should being my hoard to beyond what I can possibly use in my remaining years... then I can bequeath the remaining bulbs to my children.

[Buddygirl]

Thanks for posting this. A few more facts to understand why I am against CFLs have been added to the list to be sent to my friends.

[calex59]

Yep, if we didn't have lefties in charge, or we had legislators with a brain, they would let the free market handle it. Outlawing incandescent bulbs is just another example of big government knowing what's good for us because we are too stupid to figure it out.

I hate governments, all types, but I hate small Republican democracies the least of all governments. We need to get back to it, in order that our children and grandchildren don't become slaves to the communist who aspire to be our masters.

[concerned about politics]

CFLs use around 30% of the energy of an incandescent bulb

....but are loaded with mercury. Get read for the land fills to become so poisoned, nothing will ever clean them up. In order to get as much light as we used to, we'd have to use two or three of these nasty things.
If these weenies think I'm going to go out of my way to recycle these things, they'd better think again. It wasn't my idea to use them, so let them clean them up.

[nina0113]

Plus they look really ugly in decorative fixtures. We use the candelabra bulbs in those, and the three-way in the reading lamps.

[Jaidyn]

Two of those curly monsters broke soon after being put into the socket. They don't just break, but shatter into thousands of pieces, that takes a vacuum to pick them up. Even so, I found pieces in other rooms in my house.

They cannot be used in many lampshades and ceiling fans/lights because their either don't fit, or look stupid. Nearly all the bulbs I bought, burned out in less than a year. They are a huge, dangerous waste of money.

[FrankR]

CFL's are an enviromentalists' boondoggle.

There needs to be some money-following to find out who's getting rich on CFL's, and any connection to them by the clowns who passed this ridiculous law banning incandescents.

I'm buying up incandescents as fast as I can afford and putting them back for later. I will not buy a CFL. My electric co-op recently left two CFL's on everyone's doorstep; I took them back to the office when I paid my electric bill and told them no thanks.

I think the lamest thing I've seen is a house where they replaced all of the outside floodlights, with 60-watt CFL's...it wasn't even bright enough to attract candleflies.

CFL's are - IMHO - a scam to sell CFL's. Think of the concept: "Now, how many light bulbs are in America? If we could get a law passed to out law them all, we could make a fortune selling replacements. Yeahhhh, that's the ticket. Never mind that the mercury in them is ten times worse on the environment than the addition electricity used by standard light bulbs...but we just won't mention that ok?"

CFL's - or spaghetti bulbs - are as big a hoax as global warming...probably bigger. Other than appeasing the environuts, there are not significant reasons for switching.

It will be like the tobacco thing...they make it almost impossible to find a place for smokers to light up, quadruple the taxes, run anti-smoking campaigns out the yang-yang...then millions of people quit smoking, and the same nanny-staters that bitch about smoking, are now bitching about the loss of tobacco revenue in taxes.

If everyone cuts their power usage in half, the electric companies will be crying the blues about the loss of income,as they will still have to maintain the generators, power lines, and customer service; that generator in the coal fired plant, or hydroelectric is going to be running whether we use CFL's or incandescents. Their operating expenses will go down very little, but their income will go down a lot.

It's the "be careful what you ask for" scenario.

Spaghetti bulbs are for meatballs."

[LoneStarGI]

I have never and will never use a CFL bulb. Instead, I’ve begun replacing my incandescent bulbs with LED bulbs. Yes, currently they are expensive and not easy to come by (usually requires an online order), but the benefits are worth it. They use less electricity than a CFL, they don’t get hot even after hours of use, they don’t require a ‘warm up period’, come in a variety of styles and brightnesses, and have a usage-life of 60,000 hours. I’ve even got a pair of LED bulbs that are ‘dim-able’ flanking my garage.

[DustyMoment]

I tried some of the first generation of CFLs and quickly learned that I could waste my money more easily by just throwing it away as spend it on these things.

I’ve been building a stock of incandescents in anticipation of the day that the government bans them here (which I think occurs in 2013).

LED bulbs make more sense but, the rocket scientists in Congress have already thrown their megalomaniac brain power behind the CFL junk science and won’t soon reverse their decision in favor of LEDs.

[Sherman Logan]

During the heating season CFLs lose much of their efficiency advantage. The inefficiency of the incandescent bulbs is released as heat, which just helps reduce the energy consumption of the furnace.

OTOH, in cooling season the extra heat load must be removed by the AC, which makes incandescents doubly inefficient.

Most comparisons of efficiency ignore both of these rather important factors.

[Vor Lady]

I hate CFLs; I hate the light they produce, I hate the flickering and I hate the noise they make.

I have been stockpiling incandescants since they passed that silly law banning them. I have enough to keep my house in incandescants for 5-7 years depending on usage. I have high hopes that adults will be back in charge by then and get rid of that ridiculous legislation.

If I could convince my hubby to let me rent a storage space for them, I’d stockpile them and become the incandescant black market queen.

[ßuddaßudd]

Out with the CFLs and in with the LED lights in the near future. . ☼

[dila813]

I purchased cfls at subsidized prices and still lost money. In the first 6 to 8 months 55% failed costing me a cool 400 plus dollars.

After 3 years, about 10% are left but the incadence bulbs are still going strong. My cfls were Phillips, not a cheap brand.

I hate cfls now, I am converted.