Originally Posted By: hybrid8
I think you're off here by about a factor of 10. At $3 we're in business.

At $30, I'd replace the 6 recessed lighting floods in our kitchen, but everything else can stay CFL. We're currently stock-piling incandescents, because we haven't found a CFL that will last longer than 6 months in our kitchen. Of the last batch we tried, two burned out (literally -- there were scorch marks around where the tubes entered the transformer) within two weeks. If I were replacing bulbs every 6 months at a buck a bulb, I wouldn't care so much. But CFL floods are already over double your $3 target price-point for LED bulbs.