Same scrubber. Two voices. Corporate sends a directive to remove a working, fully-installed SO2 scrubber because the federal standard it was built to comply with just got repealed — and a demo contractor’s quote sheet landed on the catwalk the same morning. The strip walks the reader through the absurdity of ripping out paid-for, working capital equipment on a 4-year political cycle when the equipment itself runs on a 30-year capital cycle.