“The March 16, 2018, edition of the Wichita Business Journal contained a list of the top 25 Lobbyists, ranked by their Total Money Spent in Kansas during 2017. I am happy to report that KIOGA did not make the list.”
“I am always amazed by the fact that the United States is virtually the only country on earth with private ownership of minerals. So pat yourself on the back if you are producing oil and natural gas, because you have helped send kids to college, helped pay for lifesaving medical treatments, paid off farm loans, and generally had a positive impact on thousands of lives in the State of Kansas.”
– Ken White, Chair, President, Kansas Independent Oil & Gas Association, KIOGA, May/June 2018, pp. 4–5.
Trade associations are part of the undesigned market order. In the free-market development of oil and gas in the United States, trade groups representing member companies formed before government intervention made it more imperative that they do so. Standardization was the chief reason prior to the advent of energy politics.
As I explained in Oil, Gas, and Government: The U.S. Experience;” (p. 22):
Standardization of equipment specifications and advances in oil and gas accounting were achieved through cooperative efforts within the American Petroleum Institute beginning in the 1920s. Another example of cooperative success was the formation of the Natural Gasoline Association in 1921 to formulate distillation and blending standards to improve motor gasoline quality to increase consumer acceptance.
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