VECO's Bill Allen didn't help, the jet didn't help, Shale Gas drove the world gas market down, but the bottom line was and still is today the costs of building a gas line to the market just doesn't work. If the State was a Right to Work State that may help but the sheer cost of the gas line and gas conditioning plant on the North Slope is just a bridge too far.  25 plus years of a pipe dream needs to look at a different way to develop the North Slope gas reserves.  Finding a way to use the spare capacity in TAPS looks like the best way to go today.  Using the North Slope gas reserves to help extract the some of the 20 to 30 billion barrels of heavy oil is another way forward.  Recycling the North Slope gas for the past 30 years resulted in 4 to 5 billion barrels more oil being produced.  Maybe because of location and poor quality gas (high CO2 content) Alaska's North Slope gas will only support a small in-state gas line down the rail belt and a major gas to liquids program down TAPS.