I like the Cree also and have a couple. Best color and spread for the money currently (I've tried the GE, Sylvania, etc).

What bothers me is even after you replace all your 60 watt bulbs eventually (at no small cost) your electric bill will probably "magically" stay about the same each month. Same way it stays the same when I got to the beach for two or three weeks and nothing changes... even after I turn everything off I absolutely can.
Power company sez: "maybe it's your fridge" (even on toned down vacation settings?)
What a scam.

It'll also cost you 5 bucks to send the bulb back for the 10-year warranty so I'm not sure that's much incentive for buying.

I think they already have - I forget the year 8 and 6 cyl will be phased out. This is why BMW, etc are all releasing turbo 4-bangers on a lot of newer models.

Hopefully older cars will be "grandfathered" but yeah - very gestapo-like and goes hand-in-hand with the abundant
"domestic surveillance" (that's the polite term anyways).

Where do they sell the Phillips at around 10 bucks? I'd like to compare it to the Cree's myself.

Yet their monthly electric bills have not dropped much at all (at least according to my German friend). Seems like only the gov't and global warming alarmist's get rich (like Al Gore).

In the meantime they have agreed it has taken "a pause" for the last 15 years and have no believable explanation.

(is this stuff verboten on PS? Seems like it might be so I'll shut up)

1: There SHOULD be an outcry.
2: I can't control what "businesses" do.
3: HUGE difference between a few shop bulbs SOME houses may have and discard improperly and having a majority of households having a majority of their bulbs discarded improperly.

Look there is a simple solution: please give us your address and we'll all hurl our discards into your yard since they are so completely harmless