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Re: $3 gasoline
said by tmc8080  :Well, just like everything, isn't Alaska swimming in OIL rich cash flow? you know it's hovering in the $60-80 per barrel mark these days.. which equates to $3 gasoline.. and the state is crying poor? That deserves a 3 month ban on Alaska broadband topics from BBR! The pipeline has suffered huge problems and eventually has to be taken off-line to redo some sections that sprungs leaks.
Alaskians do get about $3,000 or so a year from the oil revenue sharing. How come they can't afford free broadband on that windfall they get every year?
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pnh102
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| said by supergirl :Alaskians do get about $3,000 or so a year from the oil revenue sharing. How come they can't afford free broadband on that windfall they get every year? I was going to say they spend it on tubes and dump trucks, but I am also guessing all those bridges to nowhere add up to a pretty penny too.
Oh wait, the rest of us are paying for that.
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koolman2
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Anchorage, AK | reply to supergirl
$3,000 a year? The PFD has yet to top $2,000... Even then, $1,500 a year isn't THAT much.
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koolman2
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Anchorage, AK | reply to pnh102
The Knik Arm bridge is very much needed. If you would like to have a discussion about it, please PM me. The other bridge down near Juneau is a stupid idea.
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Brat75
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We do NOT get that much money.
PFD (permanent fund dividend) has varied in amounts since 1982.
Here's a link, showing a table of the various dividends.
»www.pfd.state.ak.us/dividendamou···dex.aspx
One thing this PFD does for us is help us LIVE in Alaska. If you don't know, almost EVERYTHING must be shipped (barge, truck or airline) to Alaska. Our produce is 10 days old when it's for sale in Anchorage. Our clothing is slightly outdated. Beer kegs, for god's sakes...have a week long expiration point, due to shipping! They *kegs* start as 21 day long items, but by the time they land in AK, they have 7 days before they're considered dead.
Gas isn't cheap in Alaska. Anchorage is the main city, but people live in the Bush. Sometimes Diesel costs $6/gal out in the Bush, due to shipping. A lot of villages out in the Bush still don't have plumbing/ sewage. Food....is interesting. Costco does a great deal of business for Bush orders - staples bought by customers out in the Bush. But guess what? Most of the villages don't have commercial sized airline strips!!! A lot of the flown in stuff is flown in on smaller airplanes - which means - less per shipment coming in.
Something else:
There are 2 - 3 FO pipelines coming into Anchorage from Seattle. There are a couple going to Juneau and Seward. There is literally no fiber optic infrastructure past Fairbanks. If you live in Nome, you use...Satellite. With a 600ms lag. If you live in Willow, you _might_ get cable modem, but it really depends if the ISPs have decided to lay any infrastructure in that area.
Does this answer your question?
Brat75
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pnh102
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said by koolman2 :The Knik Arm bridge is very much needed. The Intercounty Connecter is needed near where I live.
I-95 in Virginia needs to be significantly expanded as well.
We need to add the Purple and Silver lines to the DC Metro (among other lines which I cannot remember off the top of my head).
There are literally tons of needed road and transit projects here that won't get built because of lack of funds. But we don't have senators or representatives with seniority like Ted Stevens or Don Young who can funnel the money into our coffers for us either. For the ICC, we ended up paying for that one out of our own pockets by making that a toll road.
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koolman2
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Anchorage, AK | The Knik Arm bridge would save 100 miles per day on commutes in extreme cases. 50 miles per day would be typical.
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pnh102
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| said by koolman2 :The Knik Arm bridge would save 100 miles per day on commutes in extreme cases. 50 miles per day would be typical. I'm not disputing your claim that the bridge is needed. I am just saying it would also be nice for the federal government to pay for other transportation projects as well.
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koolman2
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Anchorage, AK | Agreed. |
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axus
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Washington, DC | reply to Brat75
Plenty of room in Wyoming I hear, nicer weather too. Broadband is probably worse tho ;p |
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