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Quote by: Isherwood  There is no more "wild frontier" in most of the lower 48 states. |
Do you have any support for that assertion? On the contrary, there are still huge undeveloped areas.
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We live in fairly close proximity to one another now, and what one person does affects entire neighborhoods, sometimes entire cities.
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So let neighborhoods and cities make these type of laws, not nations. Somehow you find it acceptable that the ICC has morphed from the original intent - keeping states from engaging in trade wars - to dictating what type of light bulb I can put in my house...
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Why shouldn't the society as a whole enact controls on the usage of common utilities? If a person generated their own electricity, I'd agree that no one else could tell them how they could use it. But as long as an individual is on the common grid, the rules should encourage conservative use of those utilities by everyone on the grid. Of course, if everyone voluntarily adopted energy-conserving habits, there wouldn't be a need to legislate it.
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We already have controls on consumption and rules that encourage conservation...
It's called
PRICE.
Very simply, if there is a finite amount of generating power, if people use too much, price will go up. As price goes up, people will either pay more for the privilege of overuse, or will conserve to avoid paying more.
Really, economics will always work more smoothly than force.