Bright ideas

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Lighting the key to energy saving

The article above notes how much electricity could be saved if lighting was more efficient.

I wonder if an authoritarian country like China could just ban the production and importation of incandesent bulbs as a way of saving on electricity. (They probably make most of the rest of the world's bulbs, though.)

Here's my personal theory: if nations legislatively banned 7-Eleven Stores from using so much internal lighting they are like being in the inside of the sun, there would be an immediate detectable reduction in global greenhouse gases.

(Is it just Australia, or are all 7-Eleven shops so painfully lit?)