My wife has become a kilowatt junkie

I don’t know how much more energy efficient the United States has become in the past four months but I bet the rest of the world is still way ahead of it. In Panama where electricity is typically $.20 a kilowatt people are very careful how they use it. And anywhere that light bulbs are sold there is often nothing but compact fluorescent bulbs. You know, those funny looking things with the little white tubes looping around. Well now they produce up to 125 watts according to the label. And they give good light but according to Linda it is just too white to read with. So on every shopping trip Linda looks for and comes back with a treasured incandescent bulb…. The plain old light bulb. And we have a few around in our house for reading and quite a few spares as those wear out (and they do pretty fast). As an old energy management guy I wince when I know that the reading bulb is using 5 or 10 times as much juice as the new ones, but what the hell, I only read a couple of hours a night if that.
Now I gotta turn out the light.