LEDs are only expensive if your electricity is free.
Clearly not. If my electricity is $0.01/kWh, then it will take 8.5 years just to pay for a $10 LED. Is anyone paying only a penny per kWh? No, but I just refuted your claim. FWIW, I'm paying about $0.10 a kWH-- including the delivery charges, which people forget about-- so it would take me about a year to pay for a $10 LED. A lot of people aren't getting even a year out of theirs, so you can see why they are upset.
I can agree that Sylvania makes a good CFL, for a CFL. Philips is OK, and GE is terrible.
Philips look good, but they only seem to last slightly longer than an incandescent. GE bulbs die within a 1,000 hours if they aren't installed screw-down, and many of them have a disgusting pinkish hue at half brightness for the first 30 seconds.
Because of Acts 15.
If you're as old as I am (41), I have to tell you that public schools are a lot different now. We had the Chronicles of Narnia in the library and watched the animated film for LWW. We also had stuff that would be banned in Catholic schools (the Judy Blume books, for example).
Also, you're the third person to put words in my mouth.
An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.