Mike Gravel and his former staff deserve to be recongnized for their leadership - TAPS probably would still be debated in Congress without them.  Not mentioned in the article is the critical role of the investors, namely BP, Exxon, and Arco (ConocoPhillips). These companies, as capitalists, took all the risk which was enormous. They hired the geologists, engineers, and contractors who did the work. Work, i.e., the application of human effort to make things and create wealth. That's the real enabler in all of TAPS and universal income is entirely inconsistent with it. Alaska would not be in the current financial crisis if it would have kept all of the money in the permanent fund rather than create an economy where ciitizen feel entitled to income with no work to earn it. Alaska has become the only socialist state in the US and now the Legislature wants to tax the income if workers, who create wealth, to keep socialism alive.