>>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.

It's interesting that you call them "torches" (English word), ratger than "flashlights" (US). A few weeks ago, when I mentioned torches, somebody lampooned me by suggesting we still used burning fire brands (I suppose you can't call them faggots any more :-)