Oil....?

The past few days we had an incident happen up here at Prudoe Bay ... Some oil leaked out of the pipeline somehow and it took about three days to find it and seal it off. It all got me to thinking about the gas and oil prices here and across the country. We take great pride in the fact that we supply the country about a 1/4 of the consumed oil and gas. We go through all the effort to send it down this crazy pipeline to the "outside", lower 48 states for you that do not know, so they can process it into useable fuel and then sent it all the way back up here for us to use what we need. Now one would think that the oil companies would find it beneficial to make those plants up here so you would cut down on the travel time and so forth to take it down there. Do the processing up here, creating more jobs for the state that is supplying the oil and keep the prices on the fuel here lower then all, if not just most of the rest of the country. Right now we pay some of the highest gas and oil prices in the country and I fail to see why that is allowed. I may be one measly resident but I guarentee you if you walked around Anchorage and asked them if they would rather see the plants up here and get more jobs and lower prices for the product they would be all for it. Alaska takes great pride in the products they produce and most would want those products to be entirely produced here rather than elsewhere. Just a little thought about a lot of misplanning from the oil companies all caused by one little leak this past week up North....any thoughts?