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Most of the media coverage about gas prices lately is focused on the fact that they've fallen from a national average of $3.98 to $3.58 in about two months according to the AAA Daily Fuel Gauge.
In a report compiled by the government of Alaska, the real GDP of Alaska was $51.1 billion in 2011, $52.9 billion in 2012 and $51.5 billion in 2013.The drop-off that occurred between 2012 and 2013 has been attributed to the decline in the mining sector, specifically the oil and gas sectors, a consequence of declined production.
Alaskan gas wells are located in two regions. The largest source is the North Slope area around Prudhoe Bay where gas was discovered along with oil in 1968. In 1974 the State of Alaska's Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys estimated that the field held 26 × 10 ^ 12 cu ft (740 km 3) of natural gas. [3]
Larry Persily (born October 10, 1951) is a newspaper publisher and former Federal Coordinator of the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects 2010–2015. The office was charged with coordinating federal agency responses to private-sector efforts to develop a natural gas pipeline from Alaska's North Slope to supply the North American market.
Question: Why are the prices for gasoline and diesel fuel in Alaska so much more expensive here than ... Oct. 12—gas, gas price, gas prices, gasoline Curious Alaska is an ongoing feature powered ...
A high-paying job is helpful in pricey Alaska. Mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction are the top-earning sectors in Anchorage, too, at about $136,000 a year – not quite double the ...
The Alaska gas pipeline is a joint project of TransCanada Corp. and ExxonMobil Corp. to develop a natural gas pipeline under the AGIA, a.k.a. the Alaska Gas Inducement Act, adopted by Alaska Legislature in 2007. [1] The project originally proposed two options during its open season offering over a three-month period from April 30 to July 30, 2010.
The largest component of the average price of $2.80/gallon of regular grade gasoline in the United States from 2012 through 2021, representing 54.8% of the price of gas, was the price of crude oil. The second largest component during the same period was taxes—federal and state taxes representing 17% of the price of gas.