People project their opinions of regulation in general onto this issue. If you like regulation, it got more expensive because we made them safer. If you don't

People project their opinions of regulation in general onto this issue. If you like regulation, it got more expensive because we made them safer. If you don't like regulation, the regulations have become excessive. Personally I'm in the camp that the regulations are excessive. Regulators are probably incentivized to keep creating new rules, without considering costs for those rules. No one notices if an extra nuclear power plant online, allowing millions to get cheap, clean electricity. But oh boy is it noticed if something goes wrong.