The EU is dumping incandescent bulbs within three years, and you should too. Compact fluorescent use far less energy (75-80% less) and last longer. A lot of other places are switching to CFs.. there was talk of California making the switch, and I know it’s already happening in Australia. Walmart switched away from incandescent bulbs and is saving $8M a year. As much as I don’t like Walmart, they have been pushing energy-efficient bulbs.. it just makes good business and environmental sense. This is often the case, and I’m going to write more on this subject later.

I especially like this quote from an article in FastCompany:
“What that means is that if every one of 110 million American households bought just one [CF] bulb, took it home, and screwed it in the place of an ordinary 60-watt bulb, the energy saved would be enough to power a city of 1.5 million people. One bulb swapped out, enough electricity saved to power all the homes in Delaware and Rhode Island. In terms of oil not burned, or greenhouse gases not exhausted into the atmosphere, one bulb is equivalent to taking 1.3 million cars off the roads.”