Re: To each his own I guess
That's the weird part. People were changing over all by themselves. I was, and noted approvingly that the fluorescent bulbs were getting cheaper, better, and developing features like the ability to use them in dimmable fixtures. All this long before any laws.
If an idea is a good one, you don't NEED a gun. The question is why the government felt they had to use one anyway. I believe the short answer is "because they can." It involves an inability to think in any terms other than "forbidden" or "compulsory," and a conviction that if left to themselves, people would always make the "wrong" choices, even when they obviously aren't. It's near-pathological at this point.