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"HeyBub" wrote:

Billy wrote:

Remember Cheney's "Energy Summit"? The energy companies wrote their
own regulations. Go to any department of government and you will find
a person from the industry being regulated in charge of that
department. but that isn't what I was talking about.


Neither the Vice President nor his staff is not an expert on the benefits
and consequences of increasing the railroad tariff on rendered yak-fat or
shipping regulations for liquified natural gas towed behind tugs in
international waters.

The experts, "lobbyists," put forth proposed laws, regulations, rules.
Competing experts make their cases known and the regulators or legislators
decide which should be law. The alternative is to ban the experts and throw
darts at the wall.

How Republican of you to say so.

I agree that if you want to know how to make the job go smoother, ask
the person who does it. Now if the guy on the line says that the job
would go smoother with more salary, more workers and, better machines,
he should be prepared for a reality check from management, whose prime
devotion is to the board of directors and the stockholders. Similarly,
this allegiance to quarterly profits, may lead the board to dump their
industrial waste into a neighboring drainage ditch and the next thing
you know, you have rocket fuel (perchlorates) in the lettuce. So let's
not go one dimensional. Cheney's task force was one dimensional, they
only asked what business wanted. There need to be people at the table
who represent the public interest as well.
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Billy

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