What?  That&#x27;s crap.  Why should single home dwellers have to pay more for water and electricity and gas just because their house is bigger?  Then you&#x27;ll have apartment dwellers running the heat with the windows open.<p>Utilities should be paid per-use, just as it is now.  People with bigger houses are naturally going to pay more because a bigger house usually needs more power&#x2F;fuel for HVAC, unless their house is more efficient.  Also, we need to incentivize making homes more energy-efficient, and regressive policies like yours discourage efficiency.  Smaller isn&#x27;t always better; crappy old small houses and apartments can easily use far more energy than new McMansions.<p>And that leads me to one big problem in the rental market is that landlords never spend a dime on improving or renovating homes for better energy-efficiency, because the tenant has to pay all the utilities.