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With 2014 came a new round of energy standards for light bulbs and so most incandescent bulbs over 40 (? 20?) watts were taken off the shelves. Sylvania is making an incandescent bulb that meets standards using halogen gas inside and there's various compact fluorescent swirly bulbs and LED bulbs out there as well.

Republicans in Congress are attaching a rider to the upcoming budget prohibiting any money being spend on enforcing these standards. So while manufacturing/selling the bulbs would technically be "illegal" (in a civil regulatory sense) there'd be no enforcement. It's unlikely that this would cause most manufacturers to switch back over since they'd already spent years getting production to where they are now and I guess the profit margin on the new bulbs is actually higher. There is some worry that imported incandescent bulbs could cut into the market and cost jobs from Sylvania, GE and other domestic manufacturers.

So, hey, that's the current light bulb news. I don't much care for the CFL swirly ones and Flea is convinced they give you syphilis-cancer or something. I just don't like the light and they haven't been reliable for me, burning out faster than expected. I bought some of the halogen incandescent ones last week but haven't had a bulb go out to try them yet. Are you ready to import a crate of 75w incandescents from Mexico to go with your high-flow toilet yet?

I like the LED bulbs. The CFLs give good light but I'm not crazy about putting more mercury out there than I have to.

Currently working on replacing all my bulbs with LEDs as older ones burn out. I like em so far.

I find the CFL bulbs pretty annoying, primarily the "warm up" time from cold off. I think the LED ones work beautifully, the new room we recently built has dimable LED bulbs, they're great. Expensive for light bulbs in an absolute sense, but certainly not expensive enough to be noticeable. They probably pay for themselves eventually being 4 watts or whatever.

I still have a cases of CFLs I got from some guy at the energy dept. Evidently they handed those out, or something, but somehow a lot of them made there way to me for bookkeeping reasons.

They are profoundly mediocre. But I don't have to go to the store.

I've converted most everything to the LED ones at this point, except the wierd shaped ones that are apperently stupid hard to find in LED at this point. It did save me a little per month on electricity, but not enough to offset the cost of purchasing them overall. Given how much electrical stuff I run though, every little bit helps.

I don't mind some lights coming on more slowly. The first light I turn on in the morning can take its time reaching full power, as far as I'm concerned.

Taxidermy cat lamps are pretty menacing.

I've made a conscious choice to keep an incandescent in my old lamp on my computer desk, but we've switched over alot of our household lights to CFL's. Efficiency Maine gets us a price break on them.

We have two lights though, both in the kitchen, with oddish shaped bulbs - so they're still incandescent. We have some solar powered LED lights that we use outside - when it's not winter. And of course all the various portable lights - flashlights, headlights, booklights etc are LED now.

It's illegal to manufacture them now. and by them I mean the standard socket pear shaped non specialty ones. Most of the other types I believe can still be produced because there aren't good heat or cold tolerant replacements yet. (refridgerator / oven lights, etc.)

I think the limit is at a certain wattage. So you can still buy standard C7 or C9 bulbs for your nightlights or Christmas trees or the 6w bulbs for the chandelier but anything over 20w (I think that's it) has to meet efficiency standards that traditional bulbs can't meet.