The gasline isn`t to feed the market now snowman, it`s to feed a demand that will exist ten years from now.  There might be a lot of gas out there but the delivery/receiving infrastructure is sorely lagging.  That will change as use of natural gas climbs..and it is.
 http://www.worldwatch.org/global-natural-gas-consumption-regains-momentum-0. 
We need an economic engine to replace TAPS (a declining resource and revenue generator). 
 The gasline is it for the next fifty years or more, bringing in a billion a year in revenue to the state (plus the jobs and offshoot benefits in-state), if we have the courage to just let the effort reach it`s best conclusion according to experts and not political foes with no names..(snowman..a sore loser Parnell Conoco caucus supporter perhaps...http://parnellshakedown.wordpress.com/)