Nels the gasline is certainly needed!
80,000 Alaskan voters created ANGDA to advance instate gas development for Alaskans.  Parnell gutted funding for ANGDA board and effort, and instead married us to Exxon, SB138, and SB21.  
  We need a gasline to finally get our excess gas off the slope to market and ourselves, and to monetize the resource finally.  The cartel just doesn`t want to cough up the large investment obligation because they do better in unregulated Mideast and other locations closer to their new Asian market..   BP Exxon and Conoco would be competing against themselves and their Asian, pacific and far eastern investments (they either produce or lose on THOSE leases, unlike Alaska!!) to partner in an Alaskan gasline.  Alaska has only our own gas we own and Mr. Roderick is correct, we cannot wait for Conoco BP and Exxon, the three members of the slope cartel,.. to extort us for even more than they did with Hawker, Meyer, Micciche Chenault and Giessel and Parnell, and SB21..