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Title: Human Errors In Metering
Author: Patrick H. Loughran
Source: American Gas Association 1973
Year Published: 1973
Abstract: Long before humans ever created gas distribution metering, the philosophers and poets had recognized the natural tendency to errors in human thought and action. Alexander Pope in his famous Essay on Criticism said: To err is human, to forgive, divine. We gas distribution metering men, our utility colleagues, our suppliers. our customers, the regulatory commission personnel, and the general public are all very human. We make our share of human errors but we cannot expect divine forgiveness because our human errors transgress on and inconvenience other humans. John Locke in his Essay on Human Understanding was more specific when he said: All men are liable to error, and most men are, in many points, by possession or interest, under temptation to it. Well, old Johns thoughts still apply but I am sure he was using the words all men to mean all humans. Otherwise we could avoid errors in gas distribution metering by turning it over to womens lib. Well, I would have mixed feelings to this remedy. I would certainly have to admit we men have made our share of human errors but we are learning and improving all the time, I also still think the women are just as human and subject to error.

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