Q: Guess what people Dimmer switches do not work with flourecent light bulbs. How many of you acutally have a dimmer in your home, restaurants & dance bars use them too. Even sports arenas have dimmers for their lights. A lot of us have to work under flourecent light, all the time. We went to school under flourecent light. Now were gonna be forced to have bland oppressive flourecent lighting in our homes. What happened to our right of choice. How are we gonna have romantic lighting to welcome our significant others "home", -burn candles and risk burning down our homes? Doing the nasty under flourecent light is gross. Knocking over a candle while you're in the moment of having a good time with your lovey loved one, is a risk I'd like to avoid. Better write that California Assemblyman and give him a piece of your mind. Interior designers depend of Dimmer Switches to for lots of things, being forced to use flourecent lighting will affect their business!!! Lightbulbs will hardly make a difference, when there are other contributors of pollution that make lightbulbs insignificant. Among them there is Heavy industry and there is also the fact that Americans with their frivolent excessive wastefulness generate more garbage and pollution than anyone else in the world. NASCAR enthusiasts alone condone, wasteful burning of petrochemicals for entertainment. How many NASCAR fans drive gas guzzlling muscle cars & trucks? Americans and their greed for oil, are to blame for much of the environments woes. Not just the light bulb.
A: Sorry, can't answer your question but I would like to mention that California is not alone in this effort. Australia is also considering this measure at the present time. Therefore, it is NOT the idiots (referred to above) that wish to give social security to illegal aliens, etc, etc. It is an issue that is being considered at this time by intelligent folk wishing to conserve energy in a practical and doable manner. I'm sure that our technology experts will soon find some way to accommodate the "dimmer" needs and preferences that you have correctly identified. Keep the faith!