Well Keith, seeing that Exxon Mobile has 16 major gas and oil projects to start up in the next 3 years, so yes it does "figure" that Exxon doesn't want to see more gas in the market from Alaska. They want to keep their money(gas) in the Alaska Bank, so when the 3rd World countries nationalizes their oil,Nigeria, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Russia just to name a few, they will still have a safe place when the time comes.?