Larry Persily, Alaska’s resident pipeline curmudgeon, just penned more of his voluminous fossil fuel thoughts with his recent op-ed “Burning more state money on a mythical North Slope gas pipeline.”
Larry has never built a pipeline and offers no other ideas about how Alaskans will stay warm without natural gas, so I offer here “Larry Persily’s Top Five Ways to Stay Warm Without Heat”: 1) Burn your furniture; 2) Shiver; 3) Snuggle with a moose; 4) Put your sweaters on. All of them; 5) Follow the rest of Alaskans South. The last one to leave won’t even need to turn out the lights because those won’t work without natural gas either.
Alaska LNG is expensive because it is a big project, but it works because it is a big project. The large amounts of gas Asian customers purchase to satisfy growing LNG demand will ultimately pay for the pipeline and lower the cost for the relatively small amounts of energy we consume here in Alaska.
— Jim Plaquet
Salcha
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