“What bothers me is not enough people are raising enough stink about this.”
This is such a small matter compared to their complete waste of hundreds of billions of dollars annually that it hardly merits attention.
If you found out that your financial manager had put your entire $100 million savings into an idiotic company that had patented ceiling wax, you wouldn’t be too concerned that he had been charging you $1 a month for potato chips.
But I would have to say you missed the point of the article. While they preach conservation to us they spend on themselves like royalty. But they do it with our money.