[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

Didn't algore visit Australia recently ?

[Patrick1]

Laughable, like the Gore toilet you will have to buy twice as many bulbs or stronger ones to get the same amount of light. Envirowackos at work.

[farlander]

Nothing wrong with the more efficient light bulbs. Especially if it would reduce household power usage. Tho, considering you now have to have a 1kW power supply to run your new gaming PC, it pretty much evens out.

[null and void]

When is someone going to mention that fluorescents contain that eeeeeeeevil MERCURY?

[stevio]

Forget fluorescent, LEDs are the future.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

California is considering the same thing. Wouldn't it be more expedient to try to jump directly from incandescent lightbulbs to LEDs (at least legally) rather than going for the fluorescent lightbulb middle step? Are LEDs still too expensive to be a viable option?

[Calpernia]

Those fluorescent bulbs don't work in refrigerators, stoves or brooding and heat lamps.

[Frohickey]

How about the millions of appliances that require incandescent light bulbs to operate?

I can't see a fluorescent light bulb inside an oven.

[mikrofon]

Cuba's Fidel Castro launched a similar program two years ago, sending youth brigades into homes and switching out regular bulbs for energy-saving ones to help battle electrical blackouts around the island

"Vayamos, los niños, and if you happen to find anything else en la casa, be sure to let Uncle Fidel know..."

[hunter112]

Much of the energy, however, is wasted in the form of heat.

Ah, assumptions by the 'smart' people about what the rest of us need. That heat, along with the heat from my oven and dishwasher, allow me to get by withOUT turning my heat on for most of this last winter. I dress warmly, and use a good comforter, and my apartment's electric bills were ALL under $40 each month this winter.

[ctdonath2]

I keep trying to use compact flourescent bulbs in the house.
They keep sucking, so I keep going back to standard incandescents.
CFB's (or whatever the proper acronymn is) just don't have the right color, brightness, stability or warmth as incandescents - no matter what marketing keeps saying.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

[Jaysun]

Think of the electricity that could be saved if we'd just go back to burning whale fat. Environmentalism is the opposite of progress.

[xcamel]

see:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1787770/posts

[4KennewickMan2Invent]

More signs of the stupidity of liberalism, socialism, fascism (private companies with state dictated rules).

Leftist politicians and many "green coats" push fluorescent lamps, but only have barely enough intelligence to flip on/off the switch.

What about the higher costs?
What about choice?
What about the poor choice they are in cold weather?
What about all the %$#^@ mercury with billions of bulbs?
There are low-mercury lamps and still no mercury-free, but they cost a LOT more. Also, don't forget that even though fluorescent lights have been used since before WWII, you will have idiots scared because they "didn't know they were polluting". Remember that these bulbs require special handling and recycling (thus more people driving around and transporting these bulbs in combustion engines and using more electricity for their compounds).

So in the big picture we'll end up using less intiial electricity, but spend a lot of it in regulations, mercury clean-up, and energy used to do this (especially when we get charged "mercury bulb deposit" taxes)! Thanks to the government educated enviro"mental" idiots!!!!!!! The money isn't saved... it's redistributed!

This socialist liberalism makes my head hurt. They hate capitalism and thinking, otherwise they'd mention LEDs and other non-toxic, high efficiency lighting methods under way to replace what we currently use.