The Conservative movement has been actively signalling that waste of natural resources is a good thing for some time now. Often they cite their bible in the effort, where God gives man domain over all the animals and so on. It's just another part of their "counter-culture". This is the same culture that brought us fracking, drilling for oil and other natural resources without restriction, allowing pollution to be dumped in rivers with abandon, and "rolling coal" which I'm sure by now most liberals are familiar with as one of the dumbest conservative trends since truck nuts.
It's another reason they aren't qualified to govern. Their policy is based on making liberals angry, rather the the good that can come about from the policy.