What I find interesting about CFLs and mercury is how many advocates of CFLs are also advocates of AGW, but when you point out to them that the government says that CFls are dangerous and need to be cleaned up carefully, these AGW advocates suddenly give plenty of reasons to discount the government.
CFLs aren’t really that dangerous. They hardly ever break. The government is just being overly cautious. And of course, if you are worried about CFLs breaking you’re probably an old incompetent rightwing jerkface (a loose but accurate paraphrase.)
FWIW, I’d love to have some nice cool LEDs, I live in a desert and would love to get rid of incandescents.