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Why is gasoline expensive in Alaska too?
Flint Hills Resources’ North Pole Refinery near Fairbanks has a crude oil processing capacity of about 220,000 barrels per day. It processes North Slope crude oil and supplies gasoline, jet fuel, heating oil, diesel, gasoil and asphalt to Alaska markets.
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- xg6Lv 710 years agoFavorite Answer
Alaska may be producing 220,000 barrels of oil a day, but they don't refine it. It has to be shipped out of state as crude oil, processed into gasoline then shipped back.
- FrankieLv 710 years ago
Because the price Flint Hills pays is linked to prices in the lower 48. They don't get a break just because they take the oil directly off the pipeline first. :( I'd like to know why Anchorage is lower than we are, yet both Fairbanks and Anchorage gas comes from the same refinery and Anchorage has to ship it down.
Source(s): live in Fairbanks - Anonymous10 years ago
In a super tanker it costs .0000014 cents per gallon to ship oil half way around the world. If Alaskans won't pay the price somebody else will. They could care less where it came from or where it is going to.
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- Anonymous10 years ago
Because Sarah is not there looking out for us anymore. Damn fame!
