they cannot buy the oil. It`s against the state constitution. They lease the production rights. But You knew that.

Jack, that is silly. 17 billion barrels of oil is not gridlock. And the producers are not contractors, they don’t work for us. They bought the oil. They took the risk. Alaskans took no risk. Alaskans sold them the oil. And if you think Alaskans have been struggling these past 40 years you should not wait around for the final chapter. I have no interest in the oil companies and have never been involved in that business, but facts are facts. Sorry to be so blunt but your account of the Alaska oil business is more fictional than the Hunger Games and less entertaining.

Did you consider him a moderate before or after he decided to point forces with the Democrat nominee? Was he a moderate when he ran previously? Was he a moderate when he was cow tailing to the tea party for votes in his previous run? I think the word you are looking for is “opportunist”. Being an “opportunist” does not make one a “moderate”.

Jon,
What does any candidate, who is not an incumbent, have other than “promises”. You can’t have a record if you were not in the position. Sean Parnell had nothing but promises before his election.
I have told you that any Alaskan pipeline will need a supply of gas that has no better use for extraction of more valuable oil, a willing seller and a committed buyer, and financing. As I see it now no project, including Walker’s, have those things. Having two of the three, while encouraging, means nothing.
Isn’t our Moody bond rating made by the same kind of folks who thought mortage backed securities were a great idea?

Walker/Mallot-2014

1974 Atigun Pass.. I was there standing in the quiet wind before we built the incline up Chandalar Shelf.
I blew a rams-horn and could hear the bellowing tone echo thru the still virgin mountain valley below…
the last gasp of natural wild beauty there, and 40 years of messy stinking greedy chaos followed.

I try to avoid wasting too much time on political chatter, it usually resembles a bunch of over-caffienated dweebs dissecting a football game.

As united Alaskans behind Walker/Mallott we already have plans for quickly installing many small diameter gaslines/fiberoptics all over Alaska.

Watch this short youtube to see how it is done..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykn9lpHW_xA

We now have several different kinds of gasline flexpipe suppliers, here’s one..
http://www.flexsteelpipe.com/

http://www.flexsteelpipe.com/sites/default/files/pipe_specification_sheet_07252014_8.pdf

I know how to plow 8″ flexpipe 1500psi gasline for $200/foot
..you can’t beat it for speed of amortization
This means; the cost of delivered gas is ALWAYS cheaper than big dumb steel pipe.
Big dumb steel pipe has many other hidden pitfalls/expenses in Alaska that the “experts” sweep under the rug.

Walker/Mallott says Studyhall is over, and old pipeliners like me mean it.. over the past 40 years Alaska has wasted over several billion dollars just studying how to do something I’d gladly tell you for FREE !!
Add to that the several hundred-billion dollars Alaska has wasted by not taking my advice during public testimony at UAF in 1970-74 when we were planning TAPS.
I was trying to educate everybody that gas is a superior feedstock compared to CRUDE..

http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Natural-gas-to-1-gasoline-5701521.php

…so why don’t we have $2/gal gasoline all over railbelt??? GREED & STUPIDITY

For the past century BigOil teamed with the Big3 automakers have never exceeded 10% thermodynamic efficiency for all of our hydrocarbons, this means for the past 40 years 90% of our precious resource has been wasted.
…spilling a stuportanker full of gassy runny cheatoil dilbit CRUDE at Valdez in 1989 was just icing on the cowpie.
Texas&London has wrecked Alaska
Now BP is facing $18billion in federal fines again, and where are they gonna find that kind of cash??.. Alaska… BP’s board of directors in London is also behind the bogus PebbleMine project.
I know how to properly manage Pebble for Alaskans with virtually ZERO footprint..
99% local hire… natives like me and fishermen like me
No roads, no powerlines, no gaslines necessary.. and this is no BS.
it will be very prosperous for Alaska and great for the fish. But any bigshot corporation will not find it appealing to them. All they understand is TonkaTrucks and big mudholes.

Anchorage is not he center of the universe…
if you are a sucker for a megaproject follow me to Fukushima, we need to turn that mess into a LNG import terminal.

Lynn – what is Walker’s central promise beyond the slogans: he will build a pipeline. But instead of having the state pay for 25 percent of the costs, he wants to kick all of the experts out and build it on our own so we “can control our destiny.” Worse he has said we don’t need to get a real cost estimate because he thinks we know enough about costs to get building now.

What do you think this insane approach to building the largest infrastructure project in north american history will do to the state’s balance sheet? Given your concern about the budget the alone should disqualify him as a candidate.

Worse then the stupidity of Walker’s approach to getting an LNG project built is the fact that he knows he is lying to Alaskans about how projects like this move forward. He doesn’t care bc he just wants to get elected so he tells Alaskans that he is just like Wally and will get this thing built.

I am also well aware of the project’s challenges. I have never said this project will happen.

If the state’s future is so bleak why did Moody’s retain our triple A rating?

Jon,
The testimony of the experts concluded that the AKLNG project “could” work. Emphasis on “could”. However, they said the perils are many. This Alaskan is not willing to allow us to mortgage a “could work” proposition for our future. We are now going to obligate funds we simply do not have unless another “could work” idea of substantial increased oil production (revenue) is realized. I have pointed out to you the percentage of Unrestricted General Fund Revenues the AKLNG project will consume by 2021 if it gets that far. Facing those potential liabilities in these times, then to spend as Governor Parnell has encouraged with his budgets is the height of irresponsibility.
To illustrate my deep concern with the Alaska legislature, let me share with you the statistical data posted on the legislative web site for the last legislature: Total Bills Introduced: 601, Bills Passed: 191. Jon, you know what number they won’t tell you is the number of bills defeated following a committee hearing and a vote to recommend “do not pass” and that recommendation is accepted by the body. Bills are not defeated in Alaska Jon, they are allowed to die from neglect by committee chairs empowered to ignore their own rules of procedure and simply refuse to hold a hearing. No explanation required. The “gate keeper” to the legislature is the chair of the Rules Committee. Do you remember when Parnell created a state job for the Chair of the Rules Committee while she was a sitting legislator? Why do think Bill Allen was so interested in committee chairs?
I am now supporting Walker/Mallot. I initially supported Parnell and Palin before him so I obviously have a foggy crystal ball. I had lost faith in Parnell by the time he ran for Governor on his own because of the Dahlstrom hire. What I know now about both of them is based on their histories and on that basis I clearly see what an error I made. I will not support the status quo any loner. I do appreciate the adage that tells me when you are in a hole; the first step to take is stop digging. If Walker starts to act in his own self interest, places himself above the law, or seriously ignores the overall best interest of current and future Alaskans I will feel no obligation to support him any longer and will let you know.

You are a liar. There was a someone at the table looking out for the best interests of the Begich campaign. If Walker wins and hands commissioner titles to you and French as a pay off for your willingness to step aside, it will be an example of everything that is wrong with politics in Alaska. If that is your “vision of Alaska”, then I pity you. As a Veteran myself, I would encourage you to take your uniform out, look over it carefully, and then burn it. You and your ilk have betrayed the honor that the uniform represents.