THE END OF THE LIGHTBULB AS WE KNOW IT: Why Americans are hoarding incandescent bulbs before darkness envelopes us all on January 1, 2012. “Where do you get off telling me and my fellow Americans, ‘these standards are not taking choices away’? It’s obvious you think we’re idiots, but idiots of that magnitude? These standards are unquestionably taking choices away: that’s why 100-watt incandescent bulbs are flying off the shelves at Home Depots nationwide.”

Hey, it’s not too late to stock up! Yet.