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Posted on October 11 at 1:09 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Fairbanks low price for unleaded $3.88
Oklahoma low price for unleaded $2.35 (with .16 cent fuel tax)
Fairbanks price last year when oil was $85/bbl. $2.90
How is $1-$1.50 more per gallon than parts of the US a reflection of falling crude prices? Let's not forget that Palin suspended the fuel tax. The US average, which is $3.29 today, includes an average state fuel tax of 21 cents. This puts the real US average right at $3.08 a gallon when compared to our prices.
Posted on October 10 at 5:57 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I support our governor for standing up against a corrupt system that would rather protect a criminal in uniform than go against the public employees union. I think that most of us would have acted the same way if we had been in her position. The good news in all the recent events is that Sarah will most likely be returning as our governor next month. I know that I will still support her 110% when she returns to Alaska.
Posted on October 10 at 7:33 a.m. (Suggest removal)
So much for the professional management of the permanent fund. A 5 year old could have seen this coming and had the insight to move away from stocks and into safer securities.
On Losses mount as Alaska Permanent Fund sheds more than $5.5 billion in three weeks
Posted on October 10 at 7:30 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I consider myself lucky to have gotten a 1.5% raise in response to the 8% increase in cost of living. It is getting more expensive for all of us to live and work in Fairbanks. The automatic cost of living raises the government and public employees have come to expect are no longer sustainable. Asking me to pay you more on top of all my increased expenses in not going to get you much sympathy.
Posted on October 9 at 1:03 p.m. (Suggest removal)
There are only 342,200 jobs in Alaska as of last month. Let's do some math $10 billion dollar state budget/342,200 workers = $29,222 per worker.
The dividend could get us an extra three years at the current operating costs of the state government.
Posted on October 9 at 12:53 p.m. (Suggest removal)
The problem is that Alaska's entire economy has been falsely inflated by the government sector. Half the workers in Alaka would be making 50% as much doing the same job in the lower 48.
What do you think Alaska's top industry is?
If you guessed government service you are correct.
All jobs in the construction, mining, fishing, truck and air tranportation combined employ less people than the government sector. 23% of all Alaskan workers get their paycheck from the government. If we had to pay with taxes instead of oil revenue, each Alaskan worker would be on the line for $30,000. With the average salary only $39,000 that would leave $9,000 a year to pay for everything else.
Posted on October 9 at 7:30 a.m. (Suggest removal)
We will not have to worry about growth in this community anytime soon. It will be interesting to see if the borough assessing department reduces appraisals by 20% to reflect the current housing market. When the borough assessors inflate housing values that is not community growth, but it gives them increased tax revenue nonetheless. Unless you are adding new neighborhoods there is very little incremental costs to provide additional services. My neighbors new house has yet to catch fire.
Posted on October 9 at 7:13 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Take a trip to this "wilderness" and let me know what you see. If you are lucky you might see an arctic fox and some scraggly tundra. Comparing ANWR to Denali Park would be like comparing a rain forest to a dessert. The only reason it was put into a protected status was so that the feds could have an oil savings account for later.
Posted on October 8 at 6:29 p.m. (Suggest removal)
This is hardly hacking. This is exploiting an obvious security breach in yahoo mail. Was any harm done with the information? NO. He should be congratulated for revealing how stupid it is to use a public domain email account for private business. A real hacker steal $1,000 of dollars from innocent victims and gets parole and this kid is getting hung out to dry for guessing the high school that Palin attended in Wasilla.
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Posted on October 11 at 1:10 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Actually the refinery is less than 15 minutes from my house sambre and the pipeline is in my neighbors backyard, literally.
To have any less transportation cost you would have to be fueling up at the wellhead and running crude oil in your car. The crude goes into the refinery directly from the pipeline and all the waste goes out back into the pipeline. The only thing leaving the refinery is fuel that is overprice by over $1 a gallon.
On Oil, gas prices continue their downward slide