[arkryal2]

This smells a lot like Russian Propaganda. Who benefits from the fearmongering if not the people selling the natural gas who are desperate for economic sanctions to be lifted? They're playing you people like idiots.

Use your brain... Homes are not uniform. The amount of gas it takes to heat a small, well-insulated modern apartment is pretty low. Require an older, larger, poorly insulated farmhouse to fall within similar utilization ranges and that home is no longer livable.

And homes have multiple residents. Who's at fault if usage is high? Perhaps the property owner's name is on the bill, but a tenant has control of the thermostat, or a family member. Who do they intend to arrest? How would you prove who the responsible party is for high usage? And what about the extreme burden this would place on the courts? And then you have a large chunk of your population in jail, instead of contributing economically to the country, supporting their families, etc. The economic damage of such a policy would be far worse than doing nothing at all.

This is the thinking of people who live under an authoritarian regime, which presently is not Switzerland. This only makes sense to somebody who has no human rights and whose country doesn't give a fuck about their economic standing if it means undermining the regime. Who could that be? I wonder...