Letter: The possibilities of Alaska’s natural gas

  • Wednesday, March 1, 2017 11:47pm
  • Opinion

A 35 percent collapse in future prices over the past year has been a boon to homeowners who use natural gas for heat and appliances, and to manufacturers who power their factories and make chemicals and materials with it.

More than half of the United States’ households use natural gas for heat, and the quarter of the nation’s electricity is made from this natural gas.

Companies that make plastics, fertilizer and other chemicals derived from natural gas, the same goes with making products from steel. The falling prices are nothing short of a windfall.

Compared to the natural gas pipeline on the East Coast, the Alaska’s Natural Gas Pipeline main objective will be to make a better way of life for the working class of the U.S.

In the process of obtaining natural gas, Alaska eliminates refineries; less costly when Alaska’s natural gas can be used right from the ground. Saving many expenses, often building 11,000 factories it would cause 16,000,000 employments and help the U.S. eliminate welfare and become industrious. Rather than depend on foreign processes.

When the Alaska’s gas hits the markets, the U.S. will never be dependent on any other country again.

Henry J. Stevens

Juneau

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