Don't feel badly. Average Russian supports the current aggression and genocide.

With direct air travel severed flying back to the US will be difficult.

Had a flashback to the college days when I had to jump through hoops every semester to avoid the PIRG fee that was "conveniently" included on the bill. Ralph Nader can suck balls

WTH is "seven megawatts of power each month" supposed to mean?

And the reason they have lousy credit is because of their history of buying stuff they couldn't afford. I.e. deadbeats.

You mean like New Zealand did and was praised by the left?

Nice false dichotomy you got there.
Everywhere I worked many decisions were made in deliberations with individual contributors.
Of course strategic decisions such as which major clients to take and what to charge them are purely made by management
When the decision is made, the compliance is not optional.

I agree with all your points above but a quick nitpick

in the common law countries such as the U.S. common law is the law that is NOT codified by legislature but developed by the Judiciary.
Common law evolves in the courts until legislature decides to pass a statue codifying the subject matter. At that point it's not Common Law anymore So the phrase "codified in Common Law" is an oxymoron.
That is all.

Causing Global Warming 84 years ago. /s

No, they are an car service.

Thank you President Trump for signing this important law. Next, we need a law that would void all local exclusive franchise agreements. That would jump start the competition and let the (finally) free market take care of these bad faith fees.

The copy/pasted analogy is faulty
Unlike theoretical free hamburgers driving extra miles is not free. There's cost in both time and money.
According to the IRS, each mile of travel costs over 50c. Yet people view the benefit of the extra travel to exceed the cost.
Limiting road capacity increases the cost of travel. So people of course travel less. But not because they suddenly prefer living like ants or shopping at inefficient (expensive) local stores.
To borrow from you analogy, imagine all food got 5 times more expensive everything else remaining unchanged. People will eat less. Their quality of life will decrease.
I am sure you see where I am going.

The problem is not that they build highways. The problem is that they don't build enough of them. Obviously there's unmet need for the highway miles. That's why congestion persists. Not because the roads magically attract traffic.

So I don't buy the products that have it. Problem solved.

It was a jury trial.