As someone who recently went on a kick of replacing many of the incandescent
bulbs in his home with CF bulbs, it warms my heart to see this
article at Treehugger:
South Africa has plans to phase out certain types of
incandescent bulbs and replace them with more efficient compact fluorescent
bulbs. Malebo Mahape, a spokeperson for the Minerals and Energy Department,
said the project would first be looking to phase out more readily
replaceable bulbs like the 60 watt and 100 watt incandescent bulbs currently
widely used in South Africa. “It will not be possible to phase out all kinds
of incandescent or halogen type bulbs until readily available alternative
fluorescent ones are on the market,” Mahape said. She said the department of
trade and industry had been approached to start drafting regulations to
prohibit the import of certain classes of bulbs.