As far as your other concerns about gasoline and the bill of rights, can't really comment;
The use of email on laptops and mobile devices has reduced our energy cost of living, as has telecommuting.
Email MUST simply be made safe to use, and having a private server does not need to be an issue with the security of email in-and-of itself. The software that runs email does not function in a way that is understood in some of our most important laws.
The laws need to be updated to reflect how email and the Internet work. In particular the legal meaning of the word "remove" is not satisfied by simply receiving an email.
Comparably and to contrast: the 4th Amendment often called the "our home is our castle" amendment means that having a private server should be our right. It's security though complex and actually transient because of constantly shifting technology should be within our province.
Many people, but few on this sub understand A) how email works or B) how it can be secured, or C) that the shifting technology means that security needs constant improvement. That should be what we study and become strong in.
Instead, the Clinton email is constantly judged by standards that existed after, standards inapplicable to our rights, and standards from long before that are out of date.
At the same time it is filled with the dog whistle:
2 The use of improper language even in "news" articles, badly written, that go out of their way to be sexist.
The facts are that we do not expect Secretaries of State be they named Powell or Clinton to install their own software and perform their own security maintenance nor did that happen. But expressions about this topic often do contain this expectation and then back-fill them with ideas like "She (open reference) couldn't possibly do this right:" when in fact it is not the job of a cabinet official to install hardware and software, client or server, or to guarantee its security. That ought to be and was done by an engineer who, despite working for a company that was listed as one of the most successful companies in Denver managed to make mistakes in doing this. HOWEVER, some of the "mistakes" brought up by the Guardian, who presented a fairly extensive discussion were not actual mistakes either, but they become rumors to be spread by people like the free beacon that then echo.
By using this, we have become an echo chamber for a blogosphere one that will not accept Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton but will tear them apart. One that owes no allegiance to America but has allegiance to the regency, the ALEC, the Norquist pledge, the empire of they created with Citizens United.