Let me see if I got this straight...

You're thinking that I should be upset that any entity outside my
domicile should want to exercise control over the largest energy
consuming device in my home. There is a certain "cold dead finger"
feel to the issue. I'm certain that had then been electric powered
air conditioners available to our original framers they would have
felt it necessary to protect them in the bill of rights, much the same
manner that operating a motor vehicle and separation of corporation
and state would have been - if they'd only known.

Of course, they* could just cut the power off completely and I'd
pretty much be screwed, so I guess if I wanna continue to suckle on
the nanny-state's gridded teat I'll comply with their totalitarian
demands. Oh, wait - dang! I've got thumbs - I'll just grow my own
electricity, there aren't even emission controls regulations on the
small displacement engines that I might choose to use - that'll show
'em! I'll spew as much as I damn well please and they can't stop me,
Baa haa ha.


*assuming some sort of collusion between the now deregulated,
completely privatized electricity providers and the democratically
elected republicans that do my biding in the government as you have
alluded to.