Re: On giving a Canadian Company $500 million to build a gas pipeline from Prudhoe Bay

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jerryN <GeraldCNewton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> There is a local Fairbanks company that is already trucking gas from
> Anchorage to Fairbanks.  They have built a local distribution pipeline
> from a terminal to the new box stores like Wal-Mart, Home Depot and
> the New Fred Meyers and are selling them gas used for heating these
> buildings.  This company is in process of building a gas liquification
> plant at Prudhoe Bay and will begin trucking liquefied gas to
> Fairbanks.  Now I ask this: Why are our House of Representatives
> voting yes to give a Canadian company $500 million to build a gas
> pipeline to Canada when they say they will not start construction
> until 2018?  Why not give the money to a locally owned company that is
> already delivering the gas where it is needed?

And you call yourself a businessman.  By 2018 it will be too 
expensive to operate trucks for that purpose.