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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Nor is anyone asking you to change the current light bulb or not use the incandescent lights you already have. This is certainly going to be a gradual change. As you replace things the hope is the new ones will be more efficient and will contribute to the reduced use of power overall.
BOb
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Proposals to legislate incandescent lights out of existence, or to tax them to the point where their up-front cost is no more attractive than CFLs most certainly constitute "asking me to change the current light bulb" to a CFL the moment the current bulb burns out. And that would be a sub-optimal outcome -- until such time as either (a) CFLs (or other high-efficiency bulbs) become substantially cheaper in terms of up-front cost, (b) the cost of electricity goes up so much that it's worth replacing, or (c) I upgrade enough other things around the house that my least-used bulb is the highest pay-off thing remaining to upgrade.
Note that in all of this discussion I'm using "cost" as a proxy for $$+pollution+greenhouse-gasses+likelihood-of-global-warming+... It's not just about the $$, although they sure make a useful guide to which things to do first.
I do believe that this is part of what responsibility -- onus even -- is about.
Xenophon