[yoe]

("There's a massive misperception that incandescents are going away quickly,")

Like the low-flow toilets, I suspect the New Green bulb and the Mercury toxin will be repealed when common sense returns to the US....if it ever does. Also a prime example of bills so massive, 'little things' like killing industry here and shipping jobs to China get passed.

[REPANDPROUDOFIT]

You are right about this resembling the low-flow toilets fiasco. And it isn't just the low-flows. How about the "innovation" of the self-flushing toilet that is especially prominent in airports and public buildings. How many times have you had the toilet flush as you are walking into the stall? Then you stand up and it does it again and, as you open the door to go out, it flushes again. Some savings!