All this tinkering by governmental agencies, whether it's gas cans or bicycle tires or cow farts---EPA, OSHA, Consumer Products Commission, or whatever other---has far less to do with safety or improved utility than it does with job security or job enhancement for some lower to mid-level bureaucrat who's trying to make his face stand out in a sea of other similar government employees who worry each day about how to justify their employment.
In such a managed environment status quo equals standing still, doing nothing. Since these people produce nothing, the only way they can draw management attention to themselves and prepare for their annual performance review is to come up with ideas, good or bad, that affect the status quo. A new design, a new process, a new regulation or new restriction---those are money in the bank for the ambitious young functionary regardless of whether they're practical or beneficial.
These people are the hidden enemy who are largely unaffected by changes at the top.
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