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“I found that fluorescent lights give me a headache.”

Right on Marie. I live in Shanghai and fluorescent lighting is used throughout China. In addition to give me a headache, these things are dim, causing the addition of extra lights to achieve some modicum of decent lighting. Also, it is very irritating when walking into a dark room, flip the light switch on, then have to wait a second or two for these flickering things to stabilize and provide enough light to enter the room. There will have to be significant improvements in fluorescent lights before Americans will buy into them I think.

There will have to be significant improvements in fluorescent lights before Americans will buy into them I think.

Not necessarily true. I recently outfitted my house with GE CFL's. You can't tell the difference between these lights and the old incandescents as far as the color, and they turn on to full brightness within 1 second.

I love 'em, but it pisses me off to no end the the government feels it has to step in and TELL me what to buy.

There's good momentum towards CFL's here in the states, and it will happen quite nicely WITHOUT the government's unwanted interference.