Different groups have different reasons to call for more regulation hurdles for the gas industry, but they share the same self-serving goals. 

This year is full of controversy and divisional lines. We are all being held to pick a side and stand fast for this or that and it is very tiring. When you take a step back, you often see very different groups scheming together for their own gain.

A recent article on the Property and Environment Research Center website, highlighted these odd partnerships in a very interesting way, by comparing environmentalists and industry groups as “Baptists and bootleggers” (their term).

Groups such as the Sierra Club and NRDC (the “Baptists” in the storyline) look to evangelize green energy as the only true source of clean energy by opposing everything that is not renewable. Meanwhile, major industries (the “bootleggers”) such as Microsoft, Apple and Siemens have doubled down on software development for electric vehicles and efficient electrical machinery. Although these Baptists and the bootleggers have very different backgrounds and reasoning for their positions, their alliance shares the same goal, to shut down liquor stores on Sunday.

Read more:

http://naturalgasnow.org/the-baptists-and-the-bootleggers-how-both-call-for-more-regulation/