In 1970 if Alaskans fully understood what HYDROGEN is then TAPS would have been a big stupid gas-pipeline instead of a horrid CRUDE-pipe.

In 1971 when I was standing in Atigun Pass before a road was built thru the pass, silently alone with the wind in my ears, I knew the thundering stampede yet to arrive was focused on CRUDE without a broad education in energy architecture.

CRUDE is a messy goop stuck halfway between COAL & METHANE.

IMHO:  CRUDE has less value than properly processed COALwater [LRCWF].

Wasting our gas to produce CRUDE is like wasting all the gold&copper to produce the molybdenum in a big metalliferous porphyry.

A big stupid $65billion gas pipeline looks more like a bank robbery than an efficiently designed gas development project.

We can begin developing our gas-resources with very little CAPEX-risk,
forget $billions and think $tens-of-millions to get started making a snowballing profit that will soon become a new road ahead for Alaska as a global leader.