I can see this type of control slipping from the government’s hands into an organized crime model. Prohibtion failed to comtrol alcohol, which functions nicely as a fuel. There are tons of other fuels that are not consumable by people that can be used for heat/light etc.

Heck, is AlGore (or one of his toadies) going to show up at my cabin and check to see what my chimney output is when I burn the firewood I cut on my own land? He had better bring a proper search warrant.

The hearth-tax was one of the things that drove the peasents to revolt under the Bourbons.