Who is to say what constitutes an overly detrimental impact on quality of life or light?
It seems that this decision could best be made by the individual consumer. If CFLs are so wonderful, they will drive the incandescents out of the market. This has happened over and over again in the free market. Automobiles completely displaced horse and buggy, for instance. Typewriters disappeared from the marketplace without any government intervention.
People are able to decide what is best for them, if they are allowed.
And if Boeing union workers were so wonderful and helping the company compete in the global market, Obama wouldn't have to block Boeing from opening a plant in South Carolina, a right to work state.
But there it is.
Control.
Yup. Those fluorescents DO affect MY quality of life and I avoid them at all costs. I’ve stockpiled my beloved incandescents, although the Green SWAT will probably kick down our doors and confiscate them.