Originally Posted by BaronVonBigmeat

He also left out the "rebound effect". Where consumers respond to a 10% lower electric bill by running their a/c 10% more, or by buying a 10% bigger house, or by living further from work and thus using more gas.

He also could have mentioned that the sponsor of the bill is beholden to phillips-magnavox, which sells the most CFL's, but I suppose that would have been impolite.

Or, he could have pointed out that CFL's are old and busted, while white LED's and/or OLED lighting is the new hotness. They are more efficient than fluorescents by about the same margin that fluorescents are more efficient than regular incandescents. Some of the OLED's in labs are 99% efficient. Yes, that's right--99%. You can touch them and they don't even feel slightly warm.