Should the government pay for or at least subsidize the installation of new hot water heaters?

We rent a apartment and ours sprung a leak a few months ago and was replaced by our management company. I googled and the one they put in costs 250 dollars at Home Depot. I got the electricity bill yesterday and our bill went from 96 to 75. The hot water heater is the only thing that has changed and has cut our power bill by around 25%

I would posit that the federal government should indeed force and help pay for people to modernize their hot water heaters.