re: WSJ: America Is Back in the Factory Business

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Isn’t that all of it?

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99% from a policy and politician perspective.

But, I've seen the studies. People in the utility companies know this and they'll usually shoot pretty straight about it. There's a real argument to be made that if we could have a do over, we should have never piped gas around to houses. There's so much gas leakage you can't even do passive detection anymore because you wouldn't get 2 blocks before you had to stop and investigate. And if you've ever met an HDPE "welder" you'd wonder how we haven't all died in our own homes in a fire ball. It's really a mess but i still don't want to change out my gas range, grill, boiling pot or on demand water heater for electric.