Changes

== Killing Colorado ==

== Killing Colorado ==

After the John Galt Line opened in [[Colorado]], many businessmen started to relocate to that State, because at the time it had a very limited government. By now, Wesley Mouch had become the Senior Coordinator at the Economic Planning Bureau. In that capacity he heard the complaints, and the pleas for favors, from various unions and trade associations, and from his new friend Orren Boyle, who resented the competition that Henry Rearden posed to him, with his new Metal, essentially a new [[copper]] and [[iron]] alloy. Ever willing to grant such favors as lay within his power, Mouch promulgated a series of directives, using a power recently granted his Bureau by the [[United States Congress]], to impose a strict speed limit on trains, to require all trains to have crews of minimum size, to limit sharply the output of Rearden Metal, and to require that Henry Rearden give a "fair share" of his Metal to anyone who asked. The Bureau appointed a "Deputy Director of Distribution" to monitor Henry Rearden's compliance with these last two positions from an on-site office.

After the John Galt Line opened in [[Colorado]] (July 22, 2017), many businessmen started to relocate to that State, because at the time it had a very limited government. By now, Wesley Mouch had become the Senior Coordinator at the Economic Planning Bureau. In that capacity he heard the complaints, and the pleas for favors, from various unions and trade associations, and from his new friend Orren Boyle, who resented the competition that Henry Rearden posed to him, with his new Metal, essentially a new [[copper]] and [[iron]] alloy. Ever willing to grant such favors as lay within his power, Mouch, in November of 2017, promulgated a series of directives, using a power recently granted his Bureau by the [[United States Congress]], to impose a strict speed limit on trains, to require all trains to have crews of minimum size, to limit sharply the output of Rearden Metal, and to require that Henry Rearden give a "fair share" of his Metal to anyone who asked. The Bureau appointed a "Deputy Director of Distribution" to monitor Henry Rearden's compliance with these last two positions from an on-site office.

The immediate consequence of these directives was the disappearance of [[Ellis Wyatt]], of the Wyatt Oil Company, and the incendiary destruction of the [[shale]] [[oil]] fields that Wyatt had established. These oil well fires, collectively known as Wyatt's Torch, continued to burn for years afterward. The more far-reaching consequence was that the economy of Colorado collapsed, a result about which Mouch seems not to have cared.

The immediate consequence of these directives was the disappearance of [[Ellis Wyatt]], of the Wyatt Oil Company, and the incendiary destruction of the [[shale]] [[oil]] fields that Wyatt had established. These oil well fires, collectively known as Wyatt's Torch, continued to burn for years afterward. The more far-reaching consequence was that the economy of Colorado collapsed, a result about which Mouch seems not to have cared.