"xorbit" wrote in message
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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.




Sure, the lower 48 are closer, but Russia has that old entrepreneurial
spirit (and lack of regulation) that no longer exists in the US.