@Humpleupagus @Evil_Bender Liberals have been trying to do this puritanical idiocy with people's heat, a/c, water, gas forever. It's just that they're more successful now than they ever had been in the past.

There's really no meaningful science behind any of it, but they love the feeling of punishing people for no reason. You're guilty -- somehow.

When you factor in heating, a/c dishwashers, clothes washers and dryers, kitchen appliances, toilets, shower heads... American life is considerably more cumbersome than it used to be. And for absolutely no good reason.