KLC Lewis wrote:

"xorbit" wrote in message
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Larry wrote:

Alaska needs to get in the refining business, then tell America what it
wants for gas and diesel...(c;....instead of just giving crude away until
it's gone.

Larry

My understanding is that won't happen. As part of the agreement to drill
the north slope, no refineries would be allowed in Alaska. That won't
change because the environmental movement would never allow it.




I'll bet Russia would be amenable to building refineries in Siberia, just
across the straights...

Just across the straights? Have you measured how far that is from
Valdez compared to, say, Seattle? Against the current in the open North
Pacific / Bering Sea?

Valdez is a LOT closer to the lower 48 than Siberia.