As far as baning the Incandescent ones, that's plain stuipid and we need to outlaw laws and ban lawmakers in this country.
There are many many uses for Incandescent that CFL or LED can not and never will fill! Often we need low heat and light at same time! Incandescent works perfect for this!
TOYS! Cooking stuff like Holly Hobby ovens, they use a simple 100watt or 60 watt bulb to bake cakes. You have light to watch it bake and heat to bake it! LED or CFL cannot do that!
Incubators for eggs. Heat and have light same as toy oven but for hatching eggs.
Chicken brooders, keep those day old chicks alive in cold weather till they are a few weeks or months old. Need light and heat.
Chicken coops, keep coop warmer in cold weather so chickens do not huddle to close and smoother themselfs, the light extends the shorter winter days for them and hens eat more and lay more eggs.
Tempory low heat for about anything, prevent a well pumphouse from freezing in winter.
Thaw a frozen feul line on a car, yes I have done that with about 5 100 watt bulbs, A fire would not have been safe. Took awhile and I had to cover car all the way to ground to block wind with tarps and carboard around the bottom of car, but it worked.
I did not have a heater or heat gun handy, but I had light bulbs
Thaw a frozen house water line, I have done that. Place lights under pipe for a few hours. Fire not safe, 1500watt heater on a zip cord not safe either! 1 or 2 100watt bulbs near the frozen joint, perfectly safe. Best is a heat gun and good heavy duty cord, but how many average people have one? About every one has a couple lamps.
Ice fishing, you need heat and light, Yes I do know of a few people using light bulbs, I set one person up and he said it worked well a couple years ago. Also said he helped a friend build another one, so I may have started a trend.
Foamboard insutation well sealed to hold heat in, light bulbs for heat as needed, couple 115amp deepcycles, about 400watt inverter. Good for a days fishing and he said really cut down his propane costs for those small tanks for heaters. He charges the batteries durring the week mostly with a small windgenny I gave him. Last time I talked to him he said on many days the bulbs are are he uses, mostly just to keep his hands and feet warm as needed.
Incandescent,the RE solution! Less propane polution, fewer $2.50 2lb tanks in the dumps!
Recently it was even mentioned on this forum about building a small box with a light bulb to help cure resin castings in cold weather.
Banning Incandescent would just plian be stupid, so watch for the government to do it. Better solution is to inform people to make the choice, not force it!
I was just asked recently by daughters friends parents about the CFLs. They use 2,000 watts of light in the house or more! NO JOKE! The ceiling fan in one room has 5 or 7 60watt Incandescent bulds in it, same same fan in at least 3 other rooms down stairs and I have no idea whats up stairs, plus other lights in the house. They were talking about the $500-$600 electric bill, 15 year daughter said you would save tons of power if you changed to CFL lights, so they asked me about them.
People need information, not bans!
Ban a product and we will hord all we can get, nothing will change untill trillions of bulbs are bowing out. INFORM and things will change quickly because people want to cut costs and save money.
I know where there is a whole skid of BANNED FREON still right now, he will use it till he runs out. Who else horded several tanks or a skid load?