Why it’s so hard to build new electrical transmission lines in the U.S.

> ...for transmission lines to be constructed, each of the affected utilities, their respective regulators, and the landowners who will host a line have to agree where the line will go and how to pay for it, according to their own respective rules.

To my knowledge none of these rules affect gas or oil pipelines. They are ordered from a higher level and the landowners and towns will just have to deal with it.