If they worked so great they wouldn’t have to force them on us. The market would do it naturally and without unConstutional force.
I mean who made you by a microwave, a car or a computer?
I bought mine by choice. But FedGov has no authority to regulate lighting.
/johnny
Bingo. I use them where appropriate, they aren't all that bad.
I reckon I would be the cheap Charlie, I buy 'em when I can get 'em for about a buck. They don't last 9 years or even 6, rather two or three. Sometimes they blow up sooner. The light is not the same is an incandescent. They are terrible in the cold.
Exception to all that is the purpose built CFL lamps & fixtures (with the plug in U-shaped lights). They do provide better, brighter light, they do last 6-9 years, and there are versions which work great outside in the cold. I have a lot of them in my house in Oregon (the one I don't live in, thanks again Mr. President).
But either the plug-ins or the screwy ones lower my electric bill. Substantially.