S’okay, dude. The babes were really just the icing on the cake, anyway.

The ‘No Export’ rule was applied to Prudhoe as well. This requires US built and crewed tankers (see Jones Act) and effectively lowers the market price of Alaska crude. But it also raises the crude costs for West Coast refineries.

Alaska crude tends toward a high asphalt content and high sulphur. You still get gasoline, but not as much as some other crudes. But you can pave a lot of roads out of that same barrel of crude.

The market for Alaska Crude is Puget Sound (Washington State) and San Francisco Bay refineries. Growing population, growing demand, high prices and no new construction, but ‘upgrades’ are allowed.

The market will adjust, and Northwest consumers will continue to pay a premium of around $0.20 per gallon for the feel-good policies of Maria Cantwell.

(tangently related to a post about ‘drilling’

8^)

If they’re going to have to keep it domestic, that means shipping it all to the lower 48 (well, or Hawaii), since Alaska is already more than self-sufficient for oil, I imagine. And that adds more cost than just selling crude at the Alaskan terminals to whoever wants to come get a tankerfull (or however such sales work; at any rate it restricts the market a lot).

If that adds enough marginal cost it might even effect a significant reduction in development.

Basically, it’s an issue of copyright. One one of the last Friday Babe posts a reader asked about the copyright status on the photos. Basically, I didn’t have the rights to post any of those photos. And since Say Anything is trending more and more into the internet spotlight I thought it probably best to quit posting the pics before I got myself into trouble.

I’ve thought about having reader-submitted Friday babes, but haven’t really gotten around to it.

Sorry guys. Hope you’ll keep reading Say Anything anyway.