Dear Governor,

While you were in the Sunshine State talking to cruise companies about what can be done to increase the number of visitors to Alaska, We The Concerned had a tough time sleeping.

We kept lying in bed at night while our minds echoed with commentators and legislators saying bad things about the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act, about how Alaska's natural gas just isn't competitive. Many of AGIA's opponents also think the state should just cut its losses and bail out of its terms, basically saying that paying those dreaded "treble damages" would be cheaper than the amount the state would be obligated under AGIA to subsidize TransCanada to continue its efforts.

Then just the other day we read reports that sounded like you were keeping your distance from AGIA at a recent Resource Development Council luncheon.

No doubt you can relate, but all this was keeping us up later than usual the other night. So we decided the perfect thing to help us sleep would be to read AGIA for the third (or fourth, we forget) time, and we went online to print a fresh copy of it all. Our old copy was so dog-eared and full of doodles that we could barely read it anymore.

We went to the page on your administration's site where AGIA used to live, but we found this instead (punctuation has been preserved from the original): "This site has moved please click the below link to redirect to the new address. http://gasline.alaska.gov"

That's when we got really concerned, and not just about the grammar.

As we write this, that link still leads to an unresponsive page. Then we looked around and found the Department of Oil and Gas's AGIA page gone. Then we tried a Google site search on alaska.gov for "AGIA." It turns up the same dead link, plus a bunch of workforce research pages and PDFs ("AGIA HOT JOB") from the Alaska Department of Labor. We eventually found what we needed with a site search of the old state.gov.ak (and so on) pages.

Earlier this year you announced you were moving all the AGIA pages to that new "gasline.alaska.gov" site, we assume to make sure it didn't look like the state is playing favorites among the gas lines, but we were surprised to see the digital jobsite still covered in blue tarps.

But really, we're not blaming you or your administration. We know how hard it can be to relocate large amounts of digital resources and find stable Internet hosting. We're most concerned about how AGIA, the term, is disappearing from the state's Web portal, and thus from our consciousness.

We The Concerned loved everything about that acronym. It had it all -- style, grace -- and it practically oozed authority without coming off like a huge bully. We loved to say it out loud to the tune of the Chia Pets jingle: "Uh-uh-ahGEEah!" We're not proud to confess it, but that simple mantra cut our darkness in half more than once.

The acronym has also made us think of an exotic car -- from a former Warsaw Pact country perhaps -- a bare-knuckled vehicle shouldering the people's burdens -- a small car only offered in light blue, one whose crushing lack of basic comfort would be imperceptible because it would be the only make and model available.

The name "AGIA" also reminded us of some kind of ancient Greek goddess -- a gassy goddess, maybe, but an Olympian nonetheless.