In my latitude, I'll gladly take heat given off by incandescents nine months of the year. Now, according to the imbeciles in DC, it'd be alright if I also used electric heat in conjunction with the environmentalist choice of CFL’s. Go figure. Well you can always drive your electric car to the Home Depot and buy more CFL’s; that is, if you don't explode and burn from defective batteries on the way.
In the end, though, CFL’s will create a lot of pollution since most people will just continue to toss them in the trash and break them releasing the nutritious mercury vapor. This will be especially so in certain areas where the gub’mint is father and mother. As an added benefit, in many fires stations, there are alerts warning of CFL’ being a possible cause of fires from overheating. Then there are the bonuses of degraded light, the weird color spectrum, fragility and the lovely and useful eternally delayed lighting process.
I'm going back to candles and kerosene lamps.
Speaking of fire departments, I'm sure it will be a lot of fun for the fire department to have to put out a fire in a house full of mercury-laden bulbs. Added to the fire, they'll now have to deal with a house-full of vaporized mercury. Even if the fire is put out soon enough to save the house, the house will be a contaminated mess making lead paint look like a picnic.
Yep, you flick the switch and it takes a minute or two for the light to ramp up. During that time everything looks dank and Soviet, which for the lefties is probably part of the charm. For greenies, the loss of instantaneous bright light feels like a sacrifice, which makes them feel virtuous. For control freak liberals, the knowledge that the goverment has forced a daily behavioral adjustment on millions of people (you have to wait a minute or two before reading your book or whatever) is delightful. It makes them feel like things are as they should be.