Well, this is not a very important piece of news, I just want to know what do you think about it, and whether your countries have done something similar or not.
Spain has just passed a law which forbids the old incandescent light bulbs to be sold. Now, you can only buy halogen or LED bulbs. This supposes a minimum of 9% saving in electricity, and for an average family that's 50€ a year. But, on the other hand, these bulbs are more expensive, and really hard to deal with once they use up their lifetime.
I want you to tell me if your country has done something similar, and what do you think about the law.
I think this should have been done like five years ago, when the halogen bulbs were easily acquirable and not so expensive already.

I did extensive research on LED bulbs/chips for a huge report once, so lemme shoot out my two cents:

Personally, I think LED bulbs would be a solid choice to replace incandescent bulbs. While LED is initially more expensive (about 6x-30x the price of an incandescent bulb), the chips in them can last 8 years if they're left on and never ever turned off ever. Now that we know they're neigh on unkillable, think about the money that is no longer spent buying incandescent bulbs every month. I think they're about 5 dollars for a 4 pack around here, and you might replace one bulb every month or so. By my math, the LED bulb has paid for itself in 2 years and still has another 8 years to live.

Now, that's just initial tangible cost of the bulbs. To help further the cause, let's look at the power bill. The normal incandescent bulb is 60 watts. An LED bulb can be anywhere between .2 watts and 5 watts. Let's assume the latter for the sake of argument. 5 goes into 60 12 times. The LED bulb is 12 times more efficient. Whatever the cost is to pay for lighting your home is now 1/12th what is was before.

Now, this number is coming off the top of my head but I think in my report I had the national number for power consumption due to household lighting costing somewhere around 2 billion dollars every year.

That number is reduced to 150mil-200mil. Saving 1.8 BILLION dollars.

Fuck you, incandescent bulbs. LED FOR THE WIN!

Also, I forgot to mention an extremely important bit:

I did this research two years ago, and even then I found a lot of things saying that LED had a long way to go before it reaches its peak efficiency. Whatever the numbers I just gave you are now outdated by two years, savings will have improved by a reasonable percentage I should think.

In another 5 years, I'd think LED will run the lighting market.

Don't for get the fact that Tungsten (The material that the filament is made of that lights up in old bulbs) is not a renewable material. They think we have a finite supply, and therefor can't use incandescent bulbs forever.