Power-Sipping Bulbs Get Backing From Wal-Mart

…If it succeeds in selling 100 million compact fluorescent bulbs a year by 2008, total sales of the bulbs in the United States would increase by 50 percent, saving Americans $3 billion in electricity costs and avoiding the need to build additional power plants for the equivalent of 450,000 new homes.

That would send shockwaves

Michael B. Petras, vice president of lighting at G.E., concedes that