"Mayayana" wrote in :

I really just can't see the current enthusiasm over
LED. I thought even less of fluorescent. I've got enough
incandescents to last for years, which I bought dirt
cheap at HD because most people seem to think it's
illegal to use them and therefore won't buy them even
when they're on the store shelf!

Perhaps I'm paying $.50-1.00 more per month for
electricity. I doubt it's even that much.

Do the math. It's costing you a *lot* more than a dollar a month to use a house-full of
incandescents.

Consider just *one* 60W incandescent that's used an average of 4 hours per day. That's
120 hours per month, times 60 watts, equals 7200 watt-hours or 7.2 KwH per month.

Replace it with a CFL that uses 13 watts, and your usage drops from 7.2 KwH to 1.56 KwH, a
difference of 5.64 Kwh per month.

Multiply by fifteen cents per KwH, giving 85 cents. There's your "$.50-1.00 more per month".
FOR EVERY BULB IN YOUR HOUSE.

My electricity bill dropped by $25 a month when I replaced all the incandescents with CFLs
nine or ten years ago.