text: So Tim, in 6 months we will have a study that says the Pipe will cost an additional $1-2 billion to finish engineering and such?  You stated that so simply, as if it's easy money. Who's gonna pay that? The State of Alaska?  With what?  We have no money.  Maybe we can borrow some of our money back from AIDEA who holding Alaskans money in  huge cash reserves in their accounts. My assumption is that the cost of the pipeline before a shovel enters the ground is around $100 billion and likely much more. 
  
  By the time this is thought out, our oceans will have warmed enough to put the export facility at the north slope, thus no need for a pipe across the state.