When the US federal government begins to unlawfully rip away Americans’ freedom
to purchase the light bulbs of their choice beginning on January 1, 2012, the
only available choices will be poisonous compact fluorescent (CFL) bulbs, which
are loaded with toxic mercury, or expensive light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs,
which a recent CNET article explains will cost roughly $15 a piece for the
60-watt variety — and that is on the inexpensive end of the
spectrum.