Consumers are too stupid to make good choices

[kandrathe]

I'm personally happy that I don't have to run around changing light bulbs all the time since we switched to CFL. With incandescents, we couldn't go a week without something burning out. In fact, I was pretty sure that the act of changing one light bulb was what caused another one to burn out somewhere else in the house. :ph34r:

Well, I do already use them in some places where they make sense. The garage, the utility rooms, and even have motion sensor ones so when the kids of my wife omit to turn them off they go off by themselves. But, for fixtures with dimmers they won't work, and for chandelier type fixtures the cfl's look stupid and ugly. In other area's I like to read by incandescent light rather than the harshness of cfl's, so it's more of a light preference.