An Economic Analysis of Alternative Overland Pipeline Routes Through Canada

In my analysis of the economic benefits and costs of utilizing the proposed Trans-Alaska Pipeline (TAP) and marine tankers to transport North Slope oil to U.S. West Coast markets, I attributed all the benefits derived from production of this domestic oil to TAP. If alternative pipeline routes or other transportation systems are compared with TAP, however, it is incorrect to attribute all the benefits of North Slope oil production to a single transportation alternative.