"Oil producers balk"...  That`s an understatement.  The Alaska cartel has been "balking" since Annie Oakley was governor.. while using the cash overseas... while we whistle for our gas.. 
 I`m done with that and I support the 138,000 Alaskans who voted to build a gasline down the spine of Alaska to tap what gas we own, from wherever we own it. Pipelines work in both directions and from the middle, and that is what we need as state infrastructure.  The only way we will get that is to sell our surplus gas to one "anchor" customer in the close and growing Asian/Pacific market.  That will allow distance sensitive tariff rates to apply making Fairbanks` gas the cheapest in the state because it`s so close to the gas source relative to the distant end of the supply chain.  I think it`s called "common carrier" pipeline, which means anybody who discovers gas in Alaska can have a way of shipping that gas to market assuming there is built in plans for that volume. It should have been first choice