[Hot Tabasco]

So, if your home is packed with incandescent bulbs – then you’re going to have higher electric bills.

Since I only have a couple of lamps with incandescent bulbs, and they are only on for a few hours in the evening, how much of a monthly or annual cost savings is there?

No thanks, let me have a citizens choice of incandescent bulbs, not a govt. mandated LED.

And while we're at it, give me back my high volume flush toilet. The govt. mandated toilets aren't worth shit.....(no pun intended)

[Crusher138]

Let’s take one 60 watt incandescent light bulb. They use .72 cents per hour (less than a penny).

If you run them for 3 hours a day, every day, it will cost you about $7.88 to operate that bulb for a year (3 hours a day).

LEDs cost about .15 cents per hour to run. It would cost you about $1.64 to operate that bulb for a year.

Currently a 60 watt incandescent bulb will cost you about $4. You can get 60 watt equivalent LED bulbs for about $1 each, especially in bulk.

So yeah, LEDs are cheaper to operate and own. I still think the quality of the light sucks and they don’t last anywhere near as long as advertised.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

If you heat with electricity, in the winter old fashioned light bulbs won't cost you a penny more in electricity.