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There will be some incandescent bulbs that will have to continue to be manufactured and sold. I'm thinking of the small chandelier type bulbs, also the teardrop style bulbs, the bathroom vanity light bulbs, spotlight bulbs, and many others, even the 25w-40w refrigerator/freezer bulbs.

Can you imagine using a CFL bulb as a freezer light bulb. That thing would never come on when you open the freezer door. :)

You're right on the "specialty" bulbs. Also, a 10-second search on Wikipedia (for what that's worth) dredged up the following:

Revised standards for appliances and lighting. Requires roughly 25 percent greater efficiency for light bulbs, phased in from 2012 through 2014. This effectively bans the sale of most current incandescent light bulbs. Various specialty bulbs, including appliance bulbs, colored lights, and 3-way bulbs, are exempt from these requirements. Requires roughly 200 percent greater efficiency for light bulbs, or similar energy savings, by 2020.

And this on High Efficiency Bulbs. I think that it's old info, though....

Various efforts to improve the efficiency of incandescent lamps have been made recently, due to legislation and other movements to ban incandescent lamps. The consumer lighting division of General Electric has announced that they are working on what they have dubbed "high efficiency incandescent" (HEI) lamps, which are ultimately expected to be four times as efficient as current incandescent lamps, although their initial production goal is to be 30 lumens per watt or twice as efficient.

There will be some incandescent bulbs that will have to continue to be manufactured and sold. I'm thinking of the small chandelier type bulbs, also the teardrop style bulbs, the bathroom vanity light bulbs, spotlight bulbs, and many others, even the 25w-40w refrigerator/freezer bulbs.

One would think so - only common sense...however, you are forgetting who is making these decisions...

The bills MANDATES ONLY CFL's after 2012.

We stop it now or we kowtow...and get ready for every other phase of our lives to be mandated...

First: the low-flushers

Now: light bulbs

Next: gov't controls your thermostat. (Obama has promised - and California already has the infrastructure to do so - and was ready to implement but the hue and cry stopped it - for now.

Marxism is a One Size Fits All society - in that the ruling class with dictate to the masses who will be leveled to bare existence, while they, themselves, live high on the hog, like the Goracle

Wake up, Sheeple