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Guess my house just uses a lot of lighting. We started saving about $30 a month immediately which is a little over 20% of my previous electric bill. It paid for the 20 CFLs we installed in the first month (cost me $26 to buy the bulbs)

That's another point - want to save on lighting costs - don't have 24 light bulbs in the kitchen - etc...Houses today have far more lights that needed...

Probably true, you must use mostly lights. Our house we use about $400-500 electricity monthly. Everything is electric, it’s all the energy source we have locally. Most of our large rooms with area lights were already fluorescent lights, 40 watt 4 foot bulbs embedded in the ceiling, bathroom lights were the same. We replaced most all of our incandescent bulbs with CFLs last year, in a vain attempt to try and save money. Only change is they are poorer lights compared to incandescent and cost more. As reading lights, they don’t work as well. The fish off our dock hated them, left the area, so we switched back -— so we could catch the fish :-)

As with most things, YMMV -- It's only when the government mandates that everyone behave the same do we set ourselves up for large systems failure. With CFLs, I doubt anyone is considering the coming tidal wave of mercury pollution, fish contamination, shallowwater creatures, run-off, and what all that will do to the environment and it's creatures.

The most destructive force on Earth is government.

Don't believe me, try this --- They destroy the Everglades with channelization, now want to fix it, put it back like it was. Sigh. Probably better off to just leave it alone now. Then there is this -- In 2006 they wanted to protect us from Lake Okeechobee hurricane flooding, so they drained Lake Okeechobee and have now caused a local drought. The hurricanes never came, but nightly we get TV pictures of the horrors of the low lake water levels, alligators beached, birds with no water and no fish, fish mired in the mud etc. with no explanations as to why there is no water -- typical of liberals, it's never their fault ... sigh.