text: Isn`t it better to build the line now when costs are low as well?  If a gasline is needed in this state as infrastructure,.. ever,..then now is the time to make the commitment to our future energy needs,..not wait until the competition gets the jump on the ever growing export anchor customer market, before we even wake up to a lost opportunity to supply low-tariff gas to ourselves from a common-carrier distance-sensitive gasline.  If we don`t invest in ourselves and long term gas nobody else is going to do it for us.  A small B2F pipeline to Fairbanks from say Beluga, would carry gas north until the larger volume line decides to send more south. Pipelines deliver gas in either direction so a smaller line would always be an adjunct for in-state deliveries.  We can fritter our savings away while bitching about taxes and the costs of energy,..or we can take our own destiny in our own hands.  To me it`s just the best long term investment we can make in ourselves, considering the benefits.