>If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR, we would save enough energy to light more than 2.5 million homes for a year and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of nearly 800,000 cars.
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>Tamar
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>P.S. We've started replacing our bulbs, too.

Haven't bought a hot bulb in years. Last time it was just to replace the ones that were there when we were leaving the apartment. Now I think we still may have one or two, which are so seldom used that they just refuse to die, but we'll get them sooner or later.

I'm still not seeing LED lights in retail, except on torches. These should consume even less. I know that NYC is saving millions a year since they replaced all the traffic lights with LED lights.

And I've finally found wind-up 3-LED torch below $10 - K-mart had them recently - and it seems to hold its juice for quite a while. Tried some at Wal-mart, just to see how the bad ones look, and saw that they grow visibly dim within a minute after you stop cranking.