The Night the Lights Went Out In... Everywhere

That's right, your betters have decided you shouldn't be allowed to use your nice, bright incandescent light bulbs. You should use pale, flickering fluorescents instead, because incandescents are causing GLOBAL WARMING!!!!

Did you know that Naval candidates in flight school are FORBIDDEN to study with fluorescent lights because they damage your vision? Something tells me Gore and his family would be allowed to use incandescents because "their ocular health is important for getting the word out that incandescent bulbs are killing the earth and everything on it." No hypocrisy there, of course.

LED lights could also replace incandescents. The one I have for my bike doesn't give a very good spectrum of light... it just leaves you feeling that some light is missing. Mine's a cheapy, so expensive ones might be better, of course.

Here's an opinion pieceon World Net Daily. Farah mentions some things without documentation (i.e., that Phillips is campaigning for this change also, possibly because fluorescents are more profitable than incandescents--and I'd like to see mention of public or private records showing this).
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54815


Here's an NPR piece that mentions Gore asking Congress to ban the light bulb
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9072304