Editing Deregulation (section)

==== Energy ====
The [[Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act]] was a regulating law, consisting of a mix of regulations and deregulation, which passed in response to [[OPEC]] price hikes and domestic price controls which affected the [[1973 oil crisis]] in the United States.  After adoption of this federal legislation, numerous state legislation known as [[Natural Gas Choice]] programs have sprung up in several states, as well as the District of Columbia. Natural Gas Choice programs allow residential and small volume natural gas users to compare purchases from natural gas suppliers with traditional utility companies.  There are currently hundreds of federally unregulated natural gas suppliers operating in the US. Regulation characteristics of Natural Gas Choice programs vary between the laws of the currently adoptive 21 states (as of 2008).

{{anchor|U.S. electricity}} Deregulation of the electricity sector in the U.S. began in 1992. The [[Energy Policy Act of 1992]] eliminated obstacles for wholesale electricity competition, but deregulation has yet to be introduced in all states.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.en-powered.com/blog/the-bumpy-road-to-energy-deregulation | title = The Bumpy Road to Energy Deregulation | publisher = EnPowered | date = 2016-03-28 | access-date = 2017-05-01 | archive-date = 2017-04-07 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170407145323/https://www.en-powered.com/blog/the-bumpy-road-to-energy-deregulation | url-status = dead }}</ref> As of April 2014, 16 U.S. states ([[Connecticut]], [[Delaware]], [[Illinois]], [[Maine]], [[Maryland]], [[Massachusetts]], [[Michigan]], [[Montana]], [[New Hampshire]], [[New Jersey]], [[New York (state)|New York]], [[Ohio]], [[Oregon]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[Rhode Island]], and [[Texas]]) and the [[District of Columbia]] have introduced deregulated [[electricity market]]s to consumers in some capacity. Additionally, seven states ([[Arizona]], [[Arkansas]], [[California]], [[Nevada]], [[New Mexico]], [[Virginia]], and [[Wyoming]]) began the process of electricity deregulation in some capacity but have since suspended deregulation efforts.<ref>
  {{cite web
  | url = http://www.electricitylocal.com/resources/deregulation/
  | title = Electricity Deregulation Map of the United States
  | publisher = Electricity Local
  | access-date = 2014-04-23}}</ref>