Sniffnoy comments on Terminology suggestion: Say "degrees utility" instead of "utils" to prompt affine thinking - Less Wrong
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Except 2*40 degrees isn't 80 degrees; the operation "2*40 degrees" is simply meaningless in the first place. (I mean, unless that's a temperature difference of 40 degrees.)
(I mean, OK, you can strictly speaking double a temperature, but in order to do so you need to know what absolute zero is.)