[Dog Gone]

And from what I have heard so far, all of the oil in the Alaska Pipeline is sold to users outside the United States.

Baloney. A tiny fraction goes to Asia. The rest goes to the American west coast refineries.

[JustAnAmerican]

Well now I am confused. After doing quite a bit of research, after hearing a few things on the local radio station this morning, I found the following.

Oil from Alaska flows through the Alaskan pipeline to Valdez port. It then leaves from Valdez to ports in California(for refinement). From here I understand that the bulk(That which is not used locally) is shipped overseas.

The reason for this is that (mostly due to environ wackos or maybe terrain), California has absolutely zero pipelines that connect to the Main Pipeline network in this country.

So as far as the Oil companies are concerned it is cost prohibitive to ship any product out of California to other states using over the road haulers or shipping through the Panama Canal to link up with the main network of US pipelines. What about my knowledge is lackinig here?