This is not the first time the idiot environmentalists have jumped on a band wagon that doesn’t pan out. I work for an environmental waste hauling company. The owner had a meeting with all the employees warning us NOT to buy and use CFL bulbs. Not only are they hazardous to your health due to the mercury, but you can not dispose of CFL bulbs in your household trash. You need to store the burned out ones and call your local disposal company and ask how they want them packaged or where they want they delivered to for disposal. Realistically, if you drop or somehow break a CFL bulb, you would need a hazardous material cleanup team to come cleanup and dispose of the bulb. He wasn’t sure but he had heard the CFL bulbs don’t last as long as the manufacturers claim they will. In closing, the bulbs may be good for the environmentalists but they are certainly not good for the environment.
BS