text: TAPS should be shut down ASAP and condemned, then it can be remodeled into a funky but useful state owned gasline, until we get the flexpipe gas-grid into full swing.
  
  I was a young activist at UAF 1970 when TAPS was being "planned", and I advocated for TAPS to be built as a gasline, as an opportunity to evolve the petrochemical industry from using rotten crude as primary feedstock to using sweet gas as a superior hydrogen rich feedstock. In the 1960's we had the technology to convert crude to gas efficiently. Hydrogen does most of the work, cleaner than coal, but coalwater can be more valuable than crude, if yer smart.
  
  IMHO:  TAPS wrecked Alaska, and it has forced the pattern of thinking into quicksand statewide. AK has become a CargoCult of mindless mosquitoes chanting "Pressure in the Pipe" and dancing madly in the streets.
  
  Pappy said; Son, yer gonna drive me to drinkin' if you don't stop drivin' that hotrod Lincoln... speeding the pipe with DilBit caused the the '89spill.