I agree with most of your comments. But, we need to address the budget deficit which tells us we are broke. There is no real capital to back up any effort to engage in a major gas line project at this time. Once the ship of state is fiscally sound and income equals public service expenses, then we will be able to add badly needed infrastructure, address deferred maintenance on all of our existing infrastructure, and be able to finance a gas  pipeline IF it is economic. Until that time comes, we need to realize that we are broke. 

The search for new money is hitting at the bone and getting close to the marrow of Alaskans. They hit the PF dividend already and will probably go that route again. Everything is on the table and the next few years are going to hurt. Hopefully the legislature and administration will hit the oil and gas industry and turn the tax credit spigot off since we can't afford to pay the generous tax credits now on the books.