Over the holidays I gave my father a bit of grief about the lighting in my parents' home. Now I wasn't chewing them out for holding on to old, inefficient incandescents. Quite the opposite--I was annoyed that my father (something of an environmentalist in his own right for a lot longer than I've been around) insisted on using the same early-model CFLs that he bought years back and provide awful light. My argument was that these early, crummy bulbs turn anyone who sees them off to the potential of energy efficient lighting.
