Gas offers have come in – 08/16/2015 (Full story) Petroleum News by Alan Bailey.  The Interior Energy Project, an Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority initiative to bring affordable energy to Fairbanks and the Alaska Interior, has passed a couple of milestones, as the project team assesses bids for the supply of gas from the Cook Inlet basin and proposals for the sh….  

(Comment: We remain wary about the reality of Walker Administration efforts to block a free enterprise sale of LNG facilities so that politicians can force feed natural gas prices to Interior Alaska.  

It is the recipe for corruption and chaos and, really, serves as pretext for the Walker Administration to pursue other 'controls over the means of production', such as political control over the Alaska North Slope gas transportation project.  

And, don't forget that the Administration's answer to the monumental operating budget deficit is trending toward higher taxes.  

This Administration is, more and more, demonstrating a dangerous fascination with economic socialism, the ultimate, disastrous outcome of which cannot be concealed by any amount of charisma or populism.  -dh)