Regulatory Reform? Preach on.

Here’s a story that helps explain what Governor McCrory and Speaker Tillis are speaking to regardling regulatory reform.

We gave my son’s family gas logs for their fireplace for Christmas. Rather than take any chances with gas leaks we went to PSNC to purchase the logs and have them installed. Never mind it took them a month to get them in, they closed the retail location from which we bought them and didn’t communicate with us, my daughter-in-law finally chased them down and locked in a date for them to be installed. There is a gas line already running into the fireplace so installation shouldn’t be difficult, but the person at PSNC said the installer should come Monday, “sometime around 9:30 am.” Someone would have to be home for the installers. And, the City of Raleigh would have to inspect the installation and couldn’t come until sometime Monday afternoon.  So one adult in my son’s family is going to have to miss a full day of work so gas logs can be installed.

I could maybe understand needing an inspection if a jackleg was installing the logs but PSNC is the gas company, for Pete’s sake. They do this for a living. Aren’t they licensed and insured? Why does this even require an inspection?

Preach on Governor Pat and Mistuh Speaker. I’ll bet others reading this can cite their own examples of unnecessary regulations.