The Light Bulb Liars

If we all switch to CFL your electric bill will go up because we will need to build more power plants! This will happen because CFL's draw power for only a very short period of time instead through out the AC waveform. The peak current is higher for the CFL's! Since a generator is limited by peak current the power grid will need more generators/power plants. We get to pay for them. This happens even though the saleable power went down.

This is a little bit complex, too much so for congresscrooks.

Being an engineer I even took data which supports this case. Yes its common knowledge in the engineering world but I had to repeat it.