Actually, there is room for everybody here. The Compact Fluorescent Lights (CFLs) save money, and who doesn't like to save money? When I replaced all my incandescent bulbs with CFLs in 2001, my monthly electric bill dropped by 45%. Forty-five percent!
At the same time, CFLs don't necessarily provide the best light, and some people - artists and photographers, principally - would mind that.
So, no need to make incandescent bulbs illegal, like in Australia, where it became urgent to wean the nation from electric power because the drought was terminating hydroelectric power generation. We aren't in that bad a jam.
But we do need to make use of better technologies as they become available. Making a fetish of using incandescent light bulbs just mires us in an inefficient past. It's not about freedom; it's about progress.
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