{"id":262,"date":"2013-05-02T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/02\/railroad-commission-may-get-new-name"},"modified":"2013-05-02T21:07:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T21:07:00","slug":"railroad-commission-may-get-new-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"Railroad Commission may get new name"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Texas Railroad Commission has taken another step toward a new identity.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s about time.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/05\/02\/texas-railroad-commission-sunset-bill-passes-senat\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/05\/02\/texas-railroad-commission-sunset-bill-passes-senat\/\">http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/05\/02\/texas-railroad-commission-sunset-bill-passes-senat\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Senate Bill 212 would rename the three-member panel the Texas Energy Resources Commission. Appropriate, given that the RRC has not a single thing to do with train regulations. It has everything to do with energy regulation Texas.<\/p>\n<p>So, why not have a name that reflects its duties? Because over many legislative sessions, some dyed-in-the-wool old goats didn\u2019t want to change the name because, well, they thought history and tradition were important than relevance.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a ridiculous resistance effort from the get-go.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve lived in Texas nearly 30 years and the Railroad Commission has had nothing to do with trains almost during that entire time. The RRC once regulated trucking rates, but gave that up too in the 1980s to concentrate on energy regulation.<\/p>\n<p>The Railroad Commission had a member, Kent Hance \u2013 the current chancellor of the Texas Tech University System \u2013 who wanted Texas to become an <em>ex officio<\/em> member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Texas does consider itself a \u201cwhole other country,\u201d but that seemed a bit pretentious.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate vote to rename the RRC passed with a 21-0 vote, which is a sizable mandate to do something that makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the new name can morph into a nice acronym: TERC.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s do it, legislators.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Railroad Commission has taken another step toward a new identity. It\u2019s about time. http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/05\/02\/texas-railroad-commission-sunset-bill-passes-senat\/ Senate Bill 212 would rename the three-member panel the Texas Energy Resources Commission. Appropriate, given that the RRC has not a single thing to do with train regulations. It has everything to do with energy regulation Texas. So, why &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=262\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Railroad Commission may get new name<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}