‘fluorescents are not an improvement over incandescents.”
I beg to differ. See my Comment #70. I think the thousands of dollars I have saved are a big improvement, and I have not found the light itself of CFLs to be much of a problem. They now have several tints of light, and the price is often under $2.
See, no gov’t mandate necessary. As the price of CFLs comes down more people will switch. It would be nice to have a choice though. I can remember dad putting a drop cord and light bulb in the pump house to keep the water from freezing up during a rare cold snap. Incadesents also worked pretty good for drying out a distributor cap that had drawn moisture.
WOW - you must have a lot of lights!