[SeekAndFind]

[muawiyah]

I'm already installing LED lighting systems.

Whur you bin boy?

[1rudeboy]

Don’t forget, most of the CFL’s will be made in China. If anyone can find a way to make them even more toxic, the Chinese will.

[bgill]

Fluorescent lights give me headaches. I’m constantly restocking my supply of incandescent bulbs to hold out as long as possible.

[FrankR]

I buy a 4-pack of incandescents everytime we buy groceries...stocking them away.

"Spaghetti buls" are not only dangerous, but they give off crappy light as well.

I know people who are putting spaghetti bulbs outside in "spotlight" sockets...talk about looking stupid. They could just light a candle and get about as much light.

Prohibition tried to ban liquor too, but the people demanded it, and prohibition finally got canned.

We need to stop letting the government micro-manage our lives.

Remember in November, and in EVERY election from here on out...don't vote in lawyers or control freaks (democrats)...they will make your life miserable.

[digger48]

Yes, Bush signed the legislation, but not one mention was made that it was written and passed by Pelosi and Reid and a Democrat Congress..

[Menehune56]

I’m just glad I have an unused shower stall in the office bathroom that I can use to hoard all my contraband like incandescent bulbs, salt, phosphate Cascade, and soft TP. I’m using a spreadsheet now to inventory my lightbulb use and look for gaps to fill in the next two years.

[SES1066]

The joker in this deck is that this 2007 law (Pelosi & Waxman) SHOULd be revisited to insure that this NEW PROCESS INCANDESCENT will be permitted to be sold! This is a new technology from the University of Rochester in New York which would add a (couple?) step(s) to the assembly line for incandescents. The results would be (current & tested technology) a 30% lighting increase for the same power and a tripling of life span WITHOUT the CFL's size and mercury danger!

Since this is a developing technology, the options in 2 more years could be significantly improved over these levels. However, once a legislative fiat has been passed, it frequently steamrolls over other options!

[poindexter]

These bulbs don’t last nearly as long as claimed. Even when they still “work” after a year or so, they take longer and longer to warm up, and the light gets weaker.

They need to test the bulbs under realistic conditions: on and off 4-10 times per day, in enclosed fixtures, laying sideways or upside-down, and/or a combination of all those conditions.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

How bout a few thousand people with burned out CFLs showing up at the capitol and smashing their bulbs on the capitol steps!

[Jack Hydrazine]

Check out the Vu1 bulb.

[The Great RJ]

Organized crime should have a renaissance selling bootlegged cigarettes, high flow toilets and incandescent light bulbs.

Read what the EPA says is necessary if you break one of the "green" CFL bulbs...it is considered a hazardous mercury spill. http://www.epa.gov/cfl/cflcleanup.html

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Speak truth to power.
Anti-CFLers wearing Edison masks should stage random CFL smashes in streets of the socialist utopia.

[Fresh Wind]

To discover CFLs’ negatives...

...turn on your AM or shortwave radio, and enjoy the buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz that the CFL bulbs cause.

[upchuck]

My rule is simple: No CFLs on my property or in my house, EVER!

Fortunately, my house is small and I don't use that many light bulbs. I've stocked up a lifetime supply.

LED technology will be available in a few years and will blow away CFLs.

When you have some time and want a giggle, go check out our fav government agency's, that would be the EPA, directions for cleaning up after a broken CFL pollutes your environment.

[eclecticEel]

Ironically, the future of lighting is LEDs. They’re even more energy efficient than CFL’s and have none of the drawbacks. Governments shouldn’t be wasting their time pushing dead-end CFL technology; but that would require them to act logically, and that’s expecting too much.

[Oztrich Boy]

The All-American Light Bulb

Cough - Sir Joseph Wilson Swan - Cough

[faucetman]

I have to disagree. While the “mandate” part of it bothers me a Little, without energy codes no one would have 2x6 construction, mandated insulation requirements, low E windows, high efficiency heating & cooling equipment and on & on & on. How much energy do all those things save? TONS!

This is like the 1.6 gallon per flush toilets. I'll bet all you anti CFL people are against low gpf toilets too, when they save more water and money than can be calculated. I'm a plumber so don't tell me they don't work as well. (Buy a good one and it will work better than any 3.5 or 5 gpf toilet ever did). A better mouse trap.

The energy savings are dramatic, it's worth the negatives

[GOYAKLA]

Get some of these for daytime http://www.solatube.com/
Night-time use Oil Lamps, we did before.

[gitmo]

I’ve had two of those CFLs catch fire and fill the house with rancid fumes. I hate them.

BTW, if you break a few in the hallways at school, they have to cancel school.