It was enacted for the following motivations: The NGPA: The Natural Gas Policy Act (NGPA) was the first building block in a plan from the Carter Administration to increase energy supply while reducing domestic consumption of energy.

[3] In the 1970s, natural gas was persistently in short supply throughout the 1970s, largely because of following: Based on this type of energy setting in the 1970s, Congress enacted the NGPA.

The act was intended to raise natural gas rates to market clearing levels.

[4] The NGPA set prices based on where natural gas was old, new, or of high cost.

[5] The wellhead price controls found in the act had a direct effect on natural gas industry commerce.