I don't particularly like the fact we give all sorts of tax breaks which are not available to smaller companies in industries with less powerful lobbyists, but that's the way things work in this state (at least for now).
The AVR plan still needs federal funding. We are stuck right now without a real federal transportation bill--maybe one will finally get passed, but I'm not all that hopeful for that happening in the remainder of this Congress.
Edit:
An article going over what we discussed above about the importance of the downstream and supply chain companies to the cracker issue:
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pitt.../s_778969.html
The thing is, the Pittsburgh region can get a large chunk of all that even if the cracker happens to be across the border in WVa or Ohio.