...would put it under 50 percent. But it's not a crazy idea," Samuels said. Jim Williams, an Arkansas-based energy economist, offered a similar assessment. "Is it a possibility? Sure. Is it a probability? I don't think so in the current...

...to the Lower 48 fields and the day on which you bring the pipeline on," said Peter Hartley, a Rice University energy economist who studies North American natural gas markets. "There is a lot of gas that is inaccessible as a result of the...

...cents a gallon. Zobrist presented his findings last week to the Alaska chapter of the International Association of Energy Economists. Jeff Cook, spokesman for Williams Alaska Petroleum Co., which owns the Mapco refinery and gas stations, said...

...cents a gallon. Zobrist presented his findings last week to the Alaska chapter of the International Association of Energy Economists. Jeff Cook, spokesman for Williams Alaska Petroleum Co., which owns the Mapco refinery and gas stations, said...

...to affect things much," said Doug Reynolds, an energy economist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. But Reynolds...would be noticed," said Adam Sieminski, chief energy economist at Deutsche Bank, who believed there was enough...

...and Dan Dickinson, two members of former Gov. Frank Murkowski's gas pipeline team. The committee also hired energy economist John Neri of Maryland-based Benjamin Schlesinger and Associates Inc. to study pipeline shipping rates and rate-making...