Residences burn far more natural gas than factories, but few complained when the SCAQMD wrote rules to regulate factories.
What would you do if a regulation landed on your desk requiring you to reduce your only heat source by 75 percent over five years? The rule applied to factories with equipment that burned 10-million BTUs per hour or more.
The factories had to have us test their gas physics instruments once per year.
As the years progressed, factories shut down more and more gas equipment until they were forced to close.
As we approached the end of the five years, in 1998, the SCAQMD decided to add a new list of smaller factories that use 5-million BTU equipment.
Progressives were so inspired by their success of regulating nitrogen at our factories that they decided maybe they could get away with regulating the other remaining molecule of natural gas exhaust that they had formerly declared to be harmless: carbon dioxide.
The author's book The Ladder Out of Poverty has a chapter about the cap-and-trade process and details the extensive economic damage it caused by reducing natural gas at our factories.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/07/no_author/chevron-deference/
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