Barring some dramatic, even catastrophic, geopolitical event, nobody reading this will ever see a large diameter pipeline bringing Alaska gas to market unless Alaska LOOTS the Permanent Fund to build a line that nobody else would build.   You will see lots of people with friends in high places making some really fancy money talking about building a gas line just like Sarah Palin gave Marty Rutherford's friends at TransCanada a half-billion dollars to talk about building a gas line.   

If we do build it with Alaska's money, it will join Delta Barley, Point McKinley farming, the Seward Coal Terminal, the Anchorage Fish Processing Plant, KABATA, and too many more for me to remember as just things we p*ssed money away on so people with good friends could make fancy salaries.