Mr. Silver, I'm with you on this one. CFLs suck the big cahuna. I am hoping there will be reasonable standard light options with LEDs very soon. I sure wish the government would be putting money into LEDs not CFLs.
I bought DH an LED worklight that is very cool. To dim it, it just uses half of the LEDs. Maybe they'll do something like that with interior lights.
Keep us posted as to how it goes!
H&B
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