To: The Alaska State House, The Alaska State Senate, and Governor Mike Dunleavy
Governor Sean Parnell's proposal to give more tax breaks to the oil industry
THESE ARE THE COMMENTS OF
EVERYDAY ALASKAN CITIZENS
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Every day hundreds and hundreds of barrels of propane are re-injected back into the ground by Big Oil.
Harold Heinze, working for public interest, tried to get BP and the others to sell this cheap propane so Alaskans could have cheap, easily transportable and store-able energy.
Big Oil said "Nope".
Parnell was asked to get involved. (Check the public records- its there.) Parnell refused.
Heinze took the case to the AOGCC and asked them for help... it violates the Alaska Constitution to waste a natural resource as BP, et el, do on a daily basis. AOGCC is 'studying' the issue...
Parnell refused to act, even when many residents here do not have affordable, clean energy, or even clean air.
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If Alaska had not given away their oil for 20 years we would have a Savings Account or Permanent Fund like Norways's of $400 Billion not $40!
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BP has had two recent fires [Cherry Point Refinery & GC#2-Nslope]. These fires are a symptom of packing too much propane into the crude-cheatoil. BP sells 144,000gpd of propane at Cherry Point for $1.21/gal.
BP would rather burn off 272,000tons of propane in the Valdez waste incinerator than let Alaskans have any access to our heritage propane resource.
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HB-9 ensures AGDC destroys the voter created ANGDA- and the All Alaska Gasline. HB-09 also conceals deals AGDC might cut, and exempts AGDC from regulatory and judicial review. This is needed so Alaskans pay the outside owners of this boondoggle an estimated $420 million dollars per year.
Even worse (how could this be possible?) AGDC ignores the fact that a 200 year supply of natural gas exists in Cook Inlet.
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Want to solve the problem?
Stop having pipe dreams and cut the price of royalty crude going in to the local refiners.
Crude at $120 per 42 gallon barrel results in a $2.857 per gallon hidden royalty oil tax ON each $4.00 gallon of fuel oil.
When a household buys 1,000 gallons of heating oil the state tax is $2,857. Also, the state royalty oil tax is more than doubling GVEA customer's electric bill.
By the way, Gasoline in Saudi Arabia is 60 cents per gallon.
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This a totally insane power grab to create a vertically integrated gas-monopoly with no opportunity for regulatory oversight and operating in secrecy under HB189 blanket confidentiality clause.
Who's doing the monkeywrenching here in Hawkers office??: SAIC
[look for SAIC & RW-Beck in here..]
http://www.gasline.us.com/category/request-for-proposals/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAIC_(company)
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/03/spyagency200703
I think many of the predatory bigwigs in Alaska have a mental health problem.
Why is this important?
This a totally insane power grab to create a vertically integrated gas-monopoly with no opportunity for regulatory oversight and operating in secrecy under HB189 blanket confidentiality clause.