re alaska pipeline and space station in article apr mksol dseg ti com mccall mksol dseg ti com fred j mccall writes i think this would be a great way to build it but unfortunately current spending rules don t permit it to be workable for this to work it would be necessary for the government to guarantee a certain minimum amount of business in order to sufficiently reduce the risk enough to make this attractive to a private firm since they generally can t allocate money except one year at a time the government can t provide such a tenant guarantee fred try reading a bit the government does lots of multi year contracts with penalty for cancellation clauses they just like to be damn sure they know what they are doing before they sign a multi year contract the reason they aren t cutting defense spending as much as they would like is the reagan administration signed enough multi year contracts that it s now cheaper to just finish them out look at ssf this years funding is billion of which will cover penalty clauses due to the re design pat
