Incandescent Light Bulbs

I understand that the British Government with the EU are going to ban the sale of incandescent light bulbs in 2010. Now that is OK, I do not have any in my house now but there are problems with the new low energy bulbs.

I have some that are over 15 years old with no noticeable reduction in light output, whereas the bulbs that I have added over the last 5 years either do not last more than 2 or 3 years or their light output drops, I would say in a few months. I feel that the quality of the current range of bulbs are poorer quality, perhaps as they can get away with it due to all the stuff about Global Warming. Though the bulbs claim to have 4 times the light of an incandescent bulb of the same wattage, surely that is when first produced, mine seems to fall by a third so roughly that would be closer to double the light output of the normal bulb, but they cost a lot more. So perhaps the thing to be in with Global Warming is low energy light bulb manufacture.

I also understand that there are people with a light sensitive form of lupus, which means they can only be in rooms with incandescent bulbs, I wonder how they will deal with that? Ian