So busy burning everything down... and golfing.

Can we storm the Winter Palace yet?

that a new factory will be opened in BFE to employ thousands of white males, whose sole responsibility is to produce and ship “trillions” of them. They will be the biggest, hottest, and best of all the bulbs. And the bubbas will grunt and cheer.

Perhaps the 40W bulbs as well. But there are still lots of specialty bulbs that are incandescent. I don't understand why anyone would not be buying LED bulbs at this point.

The phasing out is going slowly. I'm not sure year to year what has been phased out.

I've been slow to switch mostly because I've bought in bulk and still have old ones in place.
Some are on dimmer switches and the LED's aren't working well with the old dimmers. You have to match the dimmer to the bulb. The halogens are going to be the next challenge. Haven't found good replacements that dim well with those yet either.

It'll take time but they are slowly disappearing. One of the things that will be happening is new homes, and major remodels will tend to be designed around the new bulbs. In part because of what industry is creating, and in part so new homes get good energy ratings. Truth is though, the TV's are the new energy hogs these days. Especially those 60 inch monsters.

It takes specialty bulbs. The electrician who installed it told us that those bulbs are now available in LED. That is good to know for when we have to replace them.

with the first fluorescents, and I had a lot of complaints about color quality. The first LED lights weren't so hot, either.

But time marches on and the new stuff is just fine. Cheap to buy and cheaper to run. So what does this rule change accomplish? What is the point?

Halogen spots are the best for some display lighting, but other than that, who is clamoring for incandescent light bulbs?

They're made in China, cost $20 apiece, and burn out in less than a week -- but the package is red, white, and blue. The Deplorables would snap them up.

How is this winning?

They are daylight brighter, they don't heat up the house as much (very hot in the summer). I'll never go back.

Market for incandescents will be so small they will be priced out of reach. The lsos has no idea how the real world market works

The manufacturers aren't going to gear up to run incandescent bulbs.

Hell, you can even drop an LED bulb and it doesn’t break. It’s done. Game over.

The rest is heat. An LED lamp converts 90% of the input electricity into light and lasts tens of thousands of hours. There is just no reason not to use them in most applications.