Comment Re:Market Forces are better than silly laws anyway (Score 1) 557
If these items are generally better, in terms of energy consumption, and are likewise sold at a reasonable price, they OUGHT to make sense to buy. (Or make cents, as it were.) If they don't then people should be free to wait until they do.
On the inverse, if there's a law requiring they be the only kind of bulb, then they can be built without concern for energy savings, and sold at any price. After all, the law says you have to have them, so why not profit from the artificial demand.
They seem to use less energy, thus save money... on the other hand our price of electricity is about half and half, the other half being the transfer of said energy. And one engineer at a grid company has calculated that our transfer prices should go to 5-6x to cover the costs of upgrades that are needed to handle the parasitic currents and harmonics.
