Walker compares the need for the gas line to the needs of TAPS. Baloney.
TAPS was built because we needed energy independence and were threatened with an OPEC blockade.  The market was there, things moved fast, the oil companies readily payed for the project with no subsidies or interference in their business model and experience building pipelines. They were right then and are right now. It's a dead project.  

As far as a gas line, things could not be different. Their is no market. Their is a glut of gas suppliers and the oil companies see no reason to build a gas pipeline across Alaska. It's simply has been and for the foreseeable future not a worthy project.

Then he states it will only cost 50 million.  That's a joke. Try 100 million.

The problem is when the goverment wants to go into  business and be a major "stakeholder".  This is not Venezuela or OPEC. This is America were private interprise trumps the bad ideas of politicians like Walker