Quote from: TDoS on Feb 09, 2024, 03:44 PMInteresting history of the Anchorage NG issue going back more than a decade. This article is from last spring.
Would you characterize the local perspective as folks have always known about this and just played kick the can all along the way? Now suddenly faced with the completely predictable consequences, they do the usual "blame the politicians" routine?
I would say it's a smaller version of the big story. People simply ignore the problem until the failures actually arrive. Telling them in advance the NG (or oil) will run out doesn't get them to change or do anything about it.
For the average J6P around here, he simply assumes that when the gas runs out in Cook Inlet, it will be sourced from somewhere else. The fact that either bringing it down from the slope or importing LNG are cost prohibitive doesn't occur to him, since he hasn't got a gas bill 3X the size he's used to yet.
So far, the shortage has not resulted in really long blackouts or anyone freezing to death. When they start needing to do rolling blackouts to ration use, J6P will get pissed. They will switch to coal despite bitching about the emissions. Then longer term they'll push for a bond issue to build a hydro plant.
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