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Good points regarding the true total cost of converting gas to a salable product. The whole idea of land-leases to "oil" companies is for some compensation to the state and allowing the oil comps to either sell the raw resource or sell a product from the resource. The process has you and me out of it right from the start. Since Agrium exists, and closing or shrinking it affects my community, neighbors, friends, schools etc, I'm in favor of bringing slope gas to the peninsula--Nort Roaders not withstanding. I also think that's a better idea than Mac River, Alcan or Valdez.
In doing that there will be gas available for both of us to heat our homes. I don't look favorably at rationing gas to my home. The price, like all HC fuels will likely stay high. One reason I'm cutting my consumption by using more wood then past years.
Providing nat gas for generations in the state could have been done with 2-3 inlet rigs (my guess) if that was the intention. A citizen co-op could have provided us with free gasoline from Prudhoe too I suppose.
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