Enviroweenies are one dimensional thinkers. They cannot think more than one step ahead.
This is not just with CFLs, either. Everything liberals deal with and make policy on is done on emotion, not logic. They are ALWAYS surprised when something doesn’t turn out as they expected, and that happens a lot.
RLM,
Conservatism (in my opinion) is the intersection of critical thinking and emotional maturity, it looks like they have not obtained either of them.