Mike Dunleavy
29:29 - 29:52
“The goal is to get long term gas. The goal is to do exactly what the Asian allies and others are doing right now in the world. How do we get gas at the lowest price possible over the long term? That's the goal first.”
- Speaker
- Mike Dunleavy
- Timestamp
- 29:29 – 29:52
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
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From the transcript
The goal is to get long term gas. The goal is to do exactly what the Asian allies and others are doing right now in the world. How do we get gas at the lowest price possible over the long term? That's the goal first. Then there is opportunities for the state to tax the resource and tax the movement of gas.
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