I couldn't agree more. I don't mind paying an initial premium if they last, bu tthey don't. My experience is I am having 20% failure rate within the first 6 months. I am a light user, on/off cycle is minumum, bulbs are not within enclosures, etc. It is less expensive for me to remain with incandescant bulbs as long as the failure rates are still high on CFL. Any energy savings is way offset by early replacement of the CFLs.

GE have not been good to me. I will buy an 8-pack, one will be DOA, 2 will fail within 4 months.

And that relates to surge how?