Robert, as someone familiar with refining in Alaska, you could not even come close to covering cost of production at $1 for jet fuel, much less on-road diesel or gasoline, for fuel refined in Alaska.  Refining is a 3-factor deal: 1)You want to be as close as possible to the cheapest crude supply; 2) you want to operate in the lowest cost area possible; and 3) you wan to be close to large markets.  We are close to a crude supply, but AK's operating costs are way to high to compete with the huge Lower 48 refineries, the biggest of which process nearly 10 times the fuel in one day that all 3 Alaskan refineries process.  And we are faaaar from large markets.  The refinery capacity here is only ever going to be big enough to serve AK's needs, and nothing more.  And the price of fuel is only going to be just low enough to dissuade companies from importing fuel from outside of AK.  A state refinery doing what you suggest would only bleed cash the state doesn't have.