Comment: The Natural Laws of Chemistry and Physics prove light-alkanes [gas] is a much more thermodynamically efficient petrochemical feedstock than CRUDE or COAL because GAS carries more HYDROGEN with it.

Because of this fundamental truth of nature, a Nslope gasline to Fairbanks has always been economically superior to a stupid Crudpipe crammed full of illegal DilBit Cheatoil [the real cause of the EXXON Valdez oil spill mess was the crap that spilled, gas or the legal licensed product would not have been such a horrid mess]

"""If the thing was economical and promised a reasonable return on investment, it would have been built 30 years ago."""???
...In the 1920's the same thing was said about Henry Ford and his automobile by the Buggy Whip Makers.

The entire global Oil Industry is still crawling out of the Coal Age, it's time for them to drop their training-pants stand-up and understand hydrocarbons. Wasting gas to produce oil is STUPID.

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