Continuing... it's kind of like saying there's lead paint in Chinese toys, therefore ALL CHINESE PRODUCTS ARE DEFECTIVE AND MUST BE BURNED!

I've had a bunch of CFL's. The biggest problem with them - and this is alluded to in the article - is that they're very, very poorly labeled. Would you buy a regular light bulb without knowing if it was "soft white" or some other color? Probably not, this is a pretty standard thing. But until recently, almost no CFL's were labeled like this and most of them were way bluer than people were used to. Nowadays there are soft white CFL's and they're labeled as such, but you need to know to look for them.

Also, some CFL's have almost no warmup time, some have a long warmup time. Again, there's no labeling to tell you which is which. I've got a few of each. Two of the worst offenders in this area are in my kitchen and while they actually give off a really nice light when fully warm, it takes them literally a minute to get there. Really annoying when I just want to pop in at night and grab something quick out of the fridge.

But good CFL's do exist and they are nowhere near $30. They're more like $2 now. It's just almost impossible to differentiate between them without better labeling.

Kinda seems like there should be a law, or something.

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