We have a pipeline, so im guessing there's oil....why does Alaska have the highest gas prices?

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and how would drilling in ANWAR change anything?We have a pipeline, so im guessing there's oil....why does Alaska have the highest gas prices?
No refineries in Alaska and the vehicles don't run on crude oil.We have a pipeline, so im guessing there's oil....why does Alaska have the highest gas prices?
Alaska doesn't have the highest prices.





This a liberal media pre-emptive strike. It's designed to make ignorant people think having more oil will not help prices.





The idea is ';everyone knows'; there's a lot of oil in Alaska. So it should follow the prices are lower there, right? But whoa wait a second they aren't. So now that we can ';prove'; more oil doesn't lower prices, there's no reason to go to ANWAR.





May sound silly, but can you us a better reason for a false story like this to be written and circulated?
a bush family member is the best answer! pick him!
It's really quite simple. Alaska (along with Hawaii) have the highest gas prices because of the expenses needed to deliver it in such out-of-the-way state.





ANWAR would change 'something' simply because supply would begin to catch up with demand.
The simple answer: The Lower 48.





(Obama supporters only, I meant to say the Lower 55.)
Drilling in ANWAR wouldn't change anything. But the reason gas is so high in Alaska is because they don't have any refining capacity there. They have to pump the crude out of the ground, ship it back to the mainland, convert it to gasoline, and then ship it back to Alaska. That's why it's so expensive there. That's why everything is so expensive there. Check out the price for a pound of cheddar cheese in Alaska.
Because the place that needs the oil the most ISN'T in Alaska but in the mainland U.S.A.
We have $4.00 a gallon here in L.A. I also saw $4.19 a gallon yesterday. Drilling in ANWAR wouldn't do a thing for us today because it will take 10 years to get the oil out and there isn't enough there to last 5 years. It's not real profitable.
Could it depend on the existence of refineries there?


I don't know if they have that capacity.





Drilling in ANWR isn't worth the destruction. We knew we needed to conserve and research alternatives as far back as the 1970's yet we sat on our hands and buried our heads in the sand.


The time for action is clearly now, yesterday actually.


How much longer can we afford to live in denial?





Imagine if doctors never did research and prescribed your parents, your kids, you, asprin for their cancer!
No refinery. The oil is shipped somewhere else to be refined and the gasoline is shipped back.





I'm guessing the shipping costs are the issue.
The highest gas prices are in California. One city is selling gas at nearly $6 a gallon.
More gasoline tax money going to Alaska