Perhaps at my age memory is faulty, I am having difficulty recalling the successes Alaska has had with what is typically private sector enterprise. Let's look back at the Anchorage Seafood Center, Healy Power Plant, Delta barley, Seward wood chips, Port MaKenzie, Point MacKenzie agriculture to name a few.  If the millions of dollars pissed away on those stupid endeavors had instead been put in the Permanent Fund the state would today be sitting pretty. With a stellar record of wasting money like that let's just say I am skeptical of Jack Roderick's advocacy.  The gas pipeline today is estimated to cost $60 billion. Does anyone not believe that if it is constructed it will cost twice that amount? By way of comparison the Apollo moon project cost about $20 billion dollars.  Quite clearly there is no market in Alaska or Outside that even comes close to making the pipeline economic.  If a market emerges the producers will react. Until then the gas pipeline is a stupid pipedream.